Mike Nifong made America a worse place. He stirred up a racial firestorm in a town where blacks had longstanding reason to mistrust the white power structure. He cynically played on the community’s resentment of white privilege incaranate at Duke University. He somehow made martyrs out of affluent white athletes who were anything but the choirboys they’re pretending to be.
Read moreHow long should it take an educated audience to figure out they’re being played? Protesters spring hoax on oil expo audience Yes Men ejected from conference Sean Myers, with files from Ashok Dutta and Gina Teel, Calgary Herald Published: Friday, June 15, 2007 By the time candles supposedly made from remains of a deceased ExxonMobil janitor named Reggie Watts were
Read moreAn organization calling itself “Tax Justice Network USA” has launched a rather nasty shot at U2 front man Bono (Paul Hewson), calling him a “draft dodger.” I’m all for tax fairness – whatever that may be – but this has the look, smell and texture of a hit job, and if I take what they’re telling me at face value,
Read moreI wrote a couple weeks ago over at Black Dog how companies across the US are flying headlong toward a massive macro-succession pile-up, and the collective personality of the Millennial Generation (born from ~1980-2000) is going to play a major part in mid-management breakdowns in the next few years. If you’d like a glimpse of the stress the Millennials are
Read moreSo, CBS CEO Les Moonves thinks Dan Rather’s comments about Katie Couric are sexist, huh? CBS Corp. Chief Executive Leslie Moonves shot back at former CBS news anchor Dan Rather today, saying remarks Rather made about his successor, Katie Couric, were “sexist.”Rather, speaking on MSNBC by phone on Monday, said CBS had made the mistake of taking the evening news
Read moreOn May 16, Sen. Pat Roberts (R-KS) said: “When you have to spend more time up here on Capitol Hill instead of running the Justice Department, maybe you ought to think about [stepping down].†(AP, 5/16/07) Today Sen. Roberts voted against the Alberto Gonzales no-confidence vote. On April 25, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) said: “I am very disappointed in [Alberto
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Read moreThis is a song Charles Manson stole from the Beatles. We’re stealing it back. – Bono Business issues have been much on my mind of late, and not just for the obvious reasons. Gavin (Whythawk) has pounded this space with a steady stream of posts that come at us from some really different angles. The S&R crew is largely American
Read morePresented for your viewing enjoyment, an unscripted nature vignette with subversive political overtones. (It starts to get really interesting at about the 3:30 mark.) [YouTube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU8DDYz68kM]
Read moreJim Booth does a nice job on The Dick and some of the lies he told a Wyoming Boys State crowd a few days ago. It’s asking a lot of a guy – even somebody as smart and thorough as Jim – to address every lie that Cheney tells, and I thought I’d take a moment and point out one
Read moreGood to see the Feds finally cracking some greedhead skulls by sacking up and opposing an anti-consumer megamerger. Ummm, wait a sec… FTC wants to stop Wild Oats/Whole Foods deal New Mexico Business Weekly 2:47 PM MDT Tuesday, June 5, 2007 The Federal Trade Commission says it will sue to stop a pending merger between rival natural foods grocers Wild
Read more“I called it years ago. What I called is that you’re going to see more black faces, but there ain’t no English going to be coming out. … [It’s about] being able to tell [Latin players] what to do – being able to control them,” he told the magazine.”Where I’m from, you can’t control us. You might get a guy
Read moreWe went to see Once yesterday, and I came to an annoying realization. First off, let’s get this out of the way: go see this movie right now. I guess it’s a musical, in that a huge portion of the film is conducted in song and that the music is essentially integrated into the narrative. The story is at once
Read moreWhatever you think about reality TV, this would pretty much have cemented your opinion. If you, like me, appreicate how some reality shows illuminate our genuine moral trashiness, then by god, this would be the best you could hope for until FOX debuts Christians v Lions 2007: Payback Time for Kitty. If you’re appalled by that same trashiness, then this
Read moreWhatever you think about reality TV, this would pretty much have cemented your opinion. If you, like me, appreicate how some reality shows illuminate our genuine moral trashiness, then by god, this would be the best you could hope for until FOX debuts Christians v Lions 2007: Payback Time for Kitty. If you’re appalled by that same trashiness, then this
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