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Is America ready for an honest conversation about abortion yet?

Posted on 2008.12.17 by winterSmith 36 comments

In this season’s eighth episode, Boston Legal – the relentlessly liberal ABC dramedy starring William Shatner and James Spader – lobbed an absolute bomb at those of us on the pro-choice side of the Roe v. Wade question. The bunker-buster was posed, predictably enough, by Crane Poole & Schmitt’s resident conservative, the gleefully Republican Denny Crane, portrayed by Shatner. BL

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Saturday Video Roundup: looking at the YouTube Video Awards

Posted on 2008.03.22 by winterSmith 7 comments

The 2007 YouTube Video Award winners have been announced (see all the nominees here), and they certainly provide fodder for debate. Not that I think the criteria were necessarily about critical standards, of course, but still. For instance, have a look at the human tetris performance, which won the Creative category, and explain to me how it beats this.