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Re: Republicans Hand Democrats a Wedge Issue to Counter Abortion
02/09/12 9:35 pm
I can't remember if I tweeted you this link but it's to an article by a Professor of Moral Theology at the Jesuit Marquette University. I h...Re: Republicans Hand Democrats a Wedge Issue to Counter Abortion
02/09/12 8:26 pm
The six Republican Senators who sponsored the contraception mandate consist of two women who now have Stockholm Syndrome, a man who was driv...Re: The Tea Party is Only as ‘Dead’ as Conservatism
02/08/12 11:14 am
The essence of culture war is a marching-backwards. Glenn Beck made "Leave it to Beaver" noises because his target audience is cognitively s...Re: Morning Awful: Catholic Birth Control Contention
02/08/12 10:51 am
Notice how a lot of so-called liberal Catholic MEN, like E J Dionne and Chris Matthews, are making this all about religious freedom. Bullpuc...Re: The Tea Party is Only as ‘Dead’ as Conservatism
02/08/12 10:46 am
I was six years old and in parochial school when John Kennedy ran for President. I remember my parents and family being pleased when he won,...Re: Chris Hedges on the Black Bloc “Cancer” in Occupy (but not in Anonymous)
02/08/12 2:15 am
You've seen them before at the 2009 G-20 meeting and the Battle of Seattle in 1999.Re: Morning Awful: Regressive South Carolina
02/07/12 3:17 pm
It takes an advanced degree in cognitive dissonance to deny these laws have any object other than making it harder for minorities & the ...Re: Chris Hedges on the Black Bloc “Cancer” in Occupy (but not in Anonymous)
02/07/12 7:07 am
I checked out on OWS months ago so I never heard of Black Bloc. Wow. Good to know.Re: Most Precise Bombing Campaign Ever
02/06/12 8:43 am
Applause for a simply-stated version of my own mind.
Category Archives: Video is Dead
Why History Channel Sucks
Cable is a dead landscape. One of the deadest channels is the one allegedly devoted to things dead people did. I love history, but I generally hate the History Channel — and this short video perfectly captures the reasons why.
Morning Awful: Gaga’s “Issue” Video
Lady Gaga transformed to plastic with Telephone and her new album wasn’t as good as Monster. I’m guessing the VMAs had to make up a new award category before the show, as “best video with a message” is as generic … Continue reading
Drive-In Food Horror Open Thread
Quite possibly the most deliciously wrong thing I’ve seen on the internet in a week: movie theatre food characters become the damned. This is an open thread to raise funds for the blog, too, because I don’t have a concession … Continue reading
Kill Your Television
It seems the big, new threat is your old, heavy television. The rate of injury by falling TV sets has hit a new high: A team from the Center for Injury Research and Policy at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Ohio … Continue reading
Beyonce Dance Moves Killing CNN
CNN has fallen to last place in primetime: CNN fell to fourth with an average of 190,000 A25-54 viewers in primetime in October, just behind sister network HLN, which averaged 191,000 A25-54 viewers in primetime. Fox News won the prime … Continue reading
Television Is The Reason We Are Dumb
David Simon, creator of the hit HBO series The Wire, almost makes the link: Simon, whose work originates on US subscription cable channel HBO, said: “Only when television managed to liberate itself from the economic construct of advertising was there … Continue reading
Cable is Dead: Makeover Edition
No, no… I’m not complaining about Comcast. This is about branding mistakes, and Richard Laermer has a great post over at HuffPo about cable channel makeovers that should never happen. Here’s what he thinks has happened: A branding company sauntered … Continue reading
Video Is Dead
NBC President Jeff Zucker: (The) initial idea of Hulu was to not suffer the fate music suffered. We had the same feeling as News Corp., and that’s why we came together. We wanted to create one aggregation site “that trained … Continue reading
Video is Dead
You’ll have noticed several blog entries here like this one: Print is dead. Long live the internet! Now, it’s not that printing presses will go suddenly still tomorrow, with all information transmitted by electrons thereafter. No one is about to … Continue reading
