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Saturday, May 22, 2010 at 5:36 AM
Archives for 2010
Thailand’s Tiananmen Square
Friday, May 21, 2010 at 5:34 AM
For over seven weeks about 100,000 poor farmers – calling themselves the Red Shirts – held Thailand practically hostage. They barricaded themselves in encampments in the middle of downtown Bangkok where they held daily rallies demanding dissolution of parliament, early elections, and a battery of democratic reforms. And most of them were clearly motivated by… Read more.
Malawi Imprisons Couple for Being Gay
Thursday, May 20, 2010 at 5:32 AM
I was surprised at the number of friends and colleagues who knew nothing about Malawi until Madonna stirred international controversy by going there in 2006 to adopt the first of two Malawian babies. (She adopted the second one last year.) But now Malawi is stirring international controversy on its own. For, according to a report… Read more.
Sex, lies, and spin: politics as usual
Wednesday, May 19, 2010 at 5:44 AM
Most political pundits would have you believe that yesterday’s primary contests were critical in determining the fate not only of the Democratic-controlled Congress but also of President Obama’s presidency. But nothing could be further from the truth. Remember all of the consequential extrapolations these same pundits made right after Scott Brown won a special election… Read more.
Miss USA Trumps Another Ethnic Stereotype
Tuesday, May 18, 2010 at 5:16 AM
Donald Trump is the owner of the Miss Universe Organization, which includes Miss USA but not Miss America. And reports abound that he handpicks the winners in his pageants: TMZ obtained an audio tape recorded during the pre-show screening portion of the 2009 [Miss USA] pageant, in which Trump can clearly be heard exercising “The… Read more.
AG Holder’s ignorance of the law is no excuse
Monday, May 17, 2010 at 5:22 AM
After Arizona passed its new immigration law on April 23, 2010, Attorney General Eric Holder was in the vanguard of those condemning it. No doubt it was his presumptively authoritative criticisms that informed, and perhaps even incited, many of the millions who soon took to the streets in protest. In fact, Holder said on NBC’s… Read more.
New Playboy: Now you can look and touch. But husbands beware…
Saturday, May 15, 2010 at 6:40 AM
The Day the Grand Ole Opry Flooded the Music Did Not Die
Friday, May 14, 2010 at 5:53 AM
But for the oil spill off the coast of Louisiana, the global efforts to bailout Greece, or the general elections in the UK, the historic floods that left much of Tennessee under water two weeks ago would have received Katrina-style media coverage. Hell, just the flooding of the Grand Ole Opry would have been cause for “BREAKING NEWS” on… Read more.
Obama Nominates Elena Kagan to Supreme Court
Thursday, May 13, 2010 at 5:33 AM
Given the purportedly transformative nature of his presidency, which the passage of healthcare reform actually reinforced, one could be forgiven for wondering what is so transformative about President Obama nominating Elena Kagan on Monday to replace retiring Justice John Paul Stevens (90) on the United States Supreme Court. Especially since the White House has gone… Read more.
Lena Horne, pioneering entertainer and civil rights activist, is dead
Wednesday, May 12, 2010 at 5:06 AM
I’m almost embarrassed to disclose that I have only seen one Lena Horne movie: Stormy Weather – a 1943 musical based on the life and times of Bill “Bojangles” Robinson featuring many of the other top black entertainers of the day, including Cab Calloway, Fats Waller, and the Nicholas Brothers. Even worse, I do not… Read more.