I owe Joe. My. God. for turning me on to musical comedian (comedical musician?) Roy Zimmerman, whom I hadn’t heard of before — but he’s smart as paint and reminds me a little of Barry Crimmins. Anyway, here, for a warm-up, is “What if the Beatles Were Irish?” And here’s the one Mr. My. […]
Entries Tagged as 'Politics'
The Beatles Are Irish, and Ted Haggard Is Completely Heterosexual
April 10th, 2007 · Comments Off on The Beatles Are Irish, and Ted Haggard Is Completely Heterosexual · Blogroll, Comedy, LGBT, Music, Performance, Politics, Video
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News Roundup: Fresh Prints Edition
April 9th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Activism, Advertising, Apple, Business, Climate Change, Culture, Health, HIV/AIDS, Human Rights, iTunes, Labor, LGBT, Media, Music, News, Politics, Science
Newt Gingrich calls on Abu Gonzales to resign. Trying to sound like a big, butch hunter to please the NRA, dreadfully amusing little joke of a candidate Mitt Romney says he likes to hunt rabbits and refers to them as “varmints.” Tell it to the Easter bunny, Mitt. I hope he left a gaily decorated […]
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Simone de Beauvoir’s Got Your Number, Slim
April 9th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Blogroll, Blogs, Culture, Feminism, Internet, Media, Politics
Jessica Valenti of Feministing had a nice piece in The Guardian on Friday, mulling over the state of online misogyny in the wake of the Kathy Sierra incident. And of course she touches on Ann Althouse’s nasty attack on her for the unspeakable crime of having a figure. If it’s any consolation, one side effect […]
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More Adventures in Pet Food
April 5th, 2007 · 7 Comments · Business, Cats, Factory Farming, Food, Health, Kiwi, Mr. Blue, Pet Food, Politics
So, in the comments to my previous post on the pet food issue, I promised I’d provide a progress report on transitioning my little monsters over to the Newman’s Own organic cat food. And the short version is, so far, so good. (See this comment in particular for why I chose Newman’s Own over other […]
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News Roundup: Amber Waves of Tainted Grain Edition
April 4th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Activism, Blogs, Business, Climate Change, Culture, Doctor Who, Food, Foreign Policy, Health, Human Rights, LGBT, Media, News, Politics, Science, Science Fiction, Supreme Court, TV
Bush thinks he has the right to “attach conditions” to the Supreme Court’s ruling on greenhouse gases. Bush also said China and India must get on board the international effort to combat global warming. “Unless there is an accord with China,” he said, “China will produce greenhouse gases that will offset anything we do in […]
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News Roundup: Supreme Court, Python,
and Gromit Edition
April 2nd, 2007 · 1 Comment · Advertising, Apple, Blogs, Business, Climate Change, Comedy, Culture, Film, Fringe, Health, Human Rights, iTunes, LGBT, Media, Music, Nature, Neo-Futurists, News, Politics, Supreme Court, Torture, Travel, TV
The Supreme Court rules that the EPA has the authority — and the responsibility — to regulate greenhouse gases. Carl Pope of The Sierra Club says: “Today’s ruling is a watershed moment in the fight against global warming … The ruling is a total rejection of the Bush administration’s refusal to use its existing authority […]
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Raising Issues with Tissues: Greenpeace Infiltrates Kleenex Ad Campaign!
April 2nd, 2007 · Comments Off on Raising Issues with Tissues: Greenpeace Infiltrates Kleenex Ad Campaign! · Activism, Advertising, Business, Climate Change, Media, Nature, Politics, Video
One more post in honor of April Fool’s day — here’s Greenpeace pulling a pretty good activist prank. Kimberly-Clark, the makers of Kleenex, are responsible for clear-cutting irreplaceable old-growth forests in order to make their tissues. Meanwhile, there’s this Kleenex ad campaign where people are asked to sit on a blue sofa, artistically placed on […]
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News Roundup: “An Exceptionally Heavy
Spaghetti Crop”
March 31st, 2007 · 3 Comments · Activism, Apple, Business, Climate Change, Comedy, Culture, Factory Farming, Feminism, Film, Food, Health, HIV/AIDS, iTunes, LGBT, Media, Music, News, Politics, Science, Tech, TV, Video
Here’s a little smorgasbord of items I wanted to blog this past week, and didn’t get the chance to. Because unlike spaghetti, time to blog doesn’t grow on trees! John Nichols of The Nation asks whether we’re nearing an “Impeachment Moment,” noting that the I-word is finally being discussed — if not exactly embraced — […]
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Mia Farrow on Darfur, Divestment,
and the 2008 Olympics in Beijing
March 30th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Activism, Business, Culture, Film, Foreign Policy, Human Rights, News, Peace, Politics
Mia Farrow, in her role as a Goodwill Ambassador for the UN, seems to be taking a real leadership role in drawing attention to the genocide in Darfur and putting pressure on those who have the ability to do something about it. Earlier this week she had a great op-ed in The Boston Globe (free […]
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The Roosters of the Peace
March 30th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Culture, Nature, Peace, Video
And now for something completely different: Two chickens break up a fight between two rabbits. And we’ve got the video. You go, peace roosters! What would El-ahrairah do?
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The Deep Dish Approach to Solar Power
March 30th, 2007 · Comments Off on The Deep Dish Approach to Solar Power · Climate Change, Energy, News, Politics, Science, Tech
Here comes the sun: Sicily is building the world’s first solar power plant! According to a deal signed by the Italian government this week, the plant should by operational by 2009: The project is named Archimedes, after the famous resident of the nearby city of Syracuse. The existing gas-fired power plant on the site will […]
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Brzezinski on Iraq: Escalation Is “A Nonstarter.”
March 29th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Foreign Policy, History, Media, News, Peace, Politics
The April issue of Harper’s Magazine has a lengthy transcript of remarks by Zbigniew Brzezinski speaking before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Feb. 1. Brzezinski was the National Security Adviser in the Carter Administration, and is currently a professor of foreign policy at Johns Hopkins University. I’m no expert on Brzezinski, and reading over […]
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Seals, Global Warming, and the Canadian Seafood Boycott
March 29th, 2007 · Comments Off on Seals, Global Warming, and the Canadian Seafood Boycott · Activism, Climate Change, Food, News, Politics, Science
Canada is gearing up for its brutal annual slaughter of baby seals, setting its highest quota ever at a time when the seal populations are also threatened by climate change. Harp and hooded seals rely on the presence of sea ice, on which they give birth to and nurse their pups. But over the past […]
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News: The Hidden Cost of Margarine
March 27th, 2007 · 4 Comments · Adobe, Climate Change, Comics, Culture, Internet, Media, Music, News, Performance, Politics, Science, Software, Tech
• Orangutans may be extinct within five years, thanks to a soaring demand for palm oil leading to the destruction of their forest habitat. This situation needs to be addressed in product labeling somehow, so consumers can know that they’re buying sustainable, “orangutan and rainforest-safe” palm oil. Via this DKos diary. • Here’s a fascinating […]
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