Some people say that blogs give you prickly heat
posted by AB 08/23/04 at 12:11 AM:: Link
Finally got a chance to see Robert Greenwald's "Outfoxed" tonight at Screenland, a new community movie house in our town. The screening was a benefit for an activist group that wants to put John Kerry in the White House, and the film was introduced by a young woman wearing an undergarment with the words on the front, "GEORGE BUSH: YOU'RE FIRED!" She announced, "This is what George Bush is going to get on Election Day -- a pink slip!" more …

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Blazers and burqas in Athens
posted by AB 08/15/04 at 07:06 PM:: Link
So NBC says that more Americans are tuned to these Summer Olympics than were tuned to the ones in Sydney. That stands in stark contrast to the arenas in Athens, which seem to be about 90% empty. more …

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It's in the net
posted by AB 08/09/04 at 09:44 AM:: Link
Most writers are more interesting when they’re reporting than when they’re just shooting off their mouths. I’d all but given up reading Eric Alterman after enduring a one year subscription to The Nation that felt more like two years. But his piece in the new Atlantic Monthly about the Hollywood liberal-political fundraising complex is terrific, with lots of reporting and observation from Alterman’s visits with the rich, famous and politically powerful in Tinseltown. more …

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