Look, I try not to be mean when it comes to people and their looks, especially in the type of society we live in now. In no way am I under any pretense that high standards of physical beauty never existed, nor do I labor under the misapprehension that shallow materialism is something that sprung […]
Good news comes to me today from my oldest sister Davelyn’s Facebook:
Kudos for the girls elementary school for incorporating schoolhouse rock into their social studies curriculum. the girls are having fun watching the videos in school and are walking around singing these songs that we sang along with back in the 70’s.
Oh my […]
Jack McEneny officially declined the Democratic nomination for re-election tonight, signaling his retirement from the State Assembly.
Jack is one of the few elected officials I’ve ever known that I trust unequivocally both personally and as a public servant. His retirement comes at the right time for him, and […]
Late last week, monologist Mike Daisey was disgraced by revelations that his famous (now infamous?) segment on “This American Life” last Fall, where he recounted his visit to the Foxconn plant where our beloved Apple products are made, was a lie.
His segment, excerpted from his one-man show The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs, […]
In the last two weeks there has been a ton of false equivalency bandied about by far-right apologists and internet dunderheads shouting over discourse from the kids’ table, and it concerns what they perceive as unfair treatment of Rush Limbaugh in light of the free pass Bill Maher gets.
Let’s break this down.
Rush Limbaugh, […]
Ugandan journalist Angelo Opi-Aiya Izama is one of many dismayed by the deliberate misinformation being spread by Invisible Children in their 30 minute propaganda piece “Stop Kony” and what it says about the current situation in Uganda:
“To call the campaign a misrepresentation is an understatement. While […]
Mark McGuire has a list of the Top 20 events for attendance in the history of the Times Union Center, which was known as the Knickerbocker Arena when it opened […]
Shocking news this morning as Andrew Breitbart, controversial conservative blogger and activist, was announced dead of natural causes. He was 43.
Actually, to call him controversial is, for many, a diplomatic understatement. Some saw him as a pariah; he did unfairly cost some people their jobs and, to further […]
“President Obama once said he wants everybody in America to go to college. What a snob,” said the former senator from Pennsylvania. “There are good, decent men and women who go out and work hard every day and put their skills to test that aren’t taught by some liberal college professor to try to indoctrinate […]
An open letter was penned to Kenneth Roth of Human Rights Watch and signed by seventeen womens’ rights organizations, calling out the organization for its excuses and double-talk they give in regards to theocratic political organizations that advocate and institute oppression against women and gays.
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