Abbey Lincoln, R.I.P.
Month: August 2010
It will surprise no one who read my previous post to learn that the folks at Big Hollywood loved The Expendables exactly as much as they are ideologically required to.
I wonder where this rates? Sadly, this sort of invective, especially the advice to not marry out of one's race, will likely enhance her ratings. And hell, we have a.
Good: “I understand the emotions that this issue engenders. Ground zero is, indeed, hallowed ground,” the president said in remarks prepared for the annual White House iftar, the sunset meal breaking the day’s fast. But, he continued: “This is America, and our commitment to religious...
Via John Cole, I see that an intrusion of C-list wingnut bloggers have compiled a 1list of the worst Americans evah. It's just as unimaginative as you'd expect -- James.
And by "it," I mean the day when white men and white male interests are finally represented in American cinema again, for today is the day that The Expendables is.
Doug Mataconis notes an interesting aspect of yesterday's important ruling that will permit same-sex marriages to go forward in California later this month unless the Circuit Court intervenes: If neither Brown nor Schwarzenegger chooses to appeal the case, and no law requires that they do...
Good one: When little Aiden toddled up our daughter Johanna and asked to play with her Elmo ball, he was, admittedly, very sweet and polite. I think his exact words.
Nuggets of childish, morbidly curious insight about the world, that is. Because at least in my household, the kids are much more interesting than the pets. First weekly entry below.
I'm not terribly interested in the project of calling Jeffrey Goldberg out as a propagandist; he's Jeffrey Goldberg, so of course he's a propagandist. As I suggested yesterday, I don't find the claims put forward in the article particularly new or revelatory. Essentially the same...
When you're on Iran's death-row, which has seemingly been convinced to upgrade their standards of decency to the level exercised by my home state of Washington, at least in terms.
Yesterday was the anniversary of their signing, and Shadow Government's John John B. Bellinger III has a piece worth reading this week: Today, 12 August, is the 61st anniversary of.