On this day in 1776, the Declaration of Independence was approved by the Continental Congress, setting the 13 colonies on the road to freedom as a sovereign nation. My special tribute to America’s independence day will include lots of kooky trivia of no real importance.
2.5 million– In July 1776, the estimated number of people living in the [...]
Also posted in Apropos Nothing, Heroes, Politics, Yay! | Tagged BBQ, beer, DC, freedom, hot dogs, Independence Day, John Adams, July 4th, Thomas Jefferson, Washington |
I think the term “Nazi” is heavily overused, and today, Holocaust remembrance day, is as good a time as any to bring attention to the disparity. Obama, for example, is neither a Nazi nor Hitler. Not that the GOP and the tea baggers, like this rather well-fed protester, would agree.
It seems utterly barbaric to cheapen [...]
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Is it outrageous to suggest that the aftermath of a plane crash may not be the most suitable televised programming to broadcast in airports?
I’ll admit I’m not a big fan of flying. Actually, it’s more the taking off and the landing that concern me, but I’ve been informed they’re necessary aspects of the Point A [...]
In honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day.
“But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography,” John Updike once complained.
The great chronicler of 20th-century Americana passed away this morning after losing his battle with lung cancer. I could eulogize him by telling you about the many [...]
[This is a letter from an Israeli woman to President-elect Obama, telling her story of the conflict that has raged for more than 50 years.]
“True peace is not merely the absence of tension, it is the presence of justice.”
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Also posted in J'accuse, Politics | Tagged Barack Obama, conflict, Dr Martin Luther King, Gaza, Israel, Jan 19th 2009, justice, massacre, MLK 2009, Palestine, peace, UN |
Andrew Wyeth, one of the most prolific and popular painters in the history of American art, died this morning at his home outside of Philadelphia. He was 91.
Wyeth was a realist who memorialized the landscapes around his home in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania and near his summer home in Cushing, Maine. As artistic styles trended to [...]
“Samuel, let me talk to you directly….
First, I was born in a communist country, so I’m familiar with people like you — and Fidel Castro, by the way — not to name drop — who also think “that media should be abolished.”
Also posted in J'accuse, Politics | Tagged 2008, 2009, CNN, CPJ, Cuba, dead journalists, Fidel Castro, Joe Fake Plumber, Joe McCarthy, Joe the Blogger, real journalism, Rick Sanchez, Samuel Wurtzelbacher, war correspondent |
In a move sure to cause gnashing and wailing among Creationists everywhere, the BBC is now airing an ongoing season of landmark programs and articles to honor the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin and the 150th anniversary of the publishing of “On the Origin of the Species”.
The Natural History Museum in London, [...]
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Dear Oscar voters,
Further to Mr David Frum’s assertion that:
“…the casualties are disproportionate: Hamas has arranged it that way. If necessary, sympathetic photographers take pictures of children who pretend to be injured, and once they are published in Western newspapers these claims become fact.” [outraged emphasis mine]
I’d like to offer fresh evidence of the astounding skill and [...]
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In a bid to make even Bush apologists and Holocaust deniers look bad, David Frum has written this regarding the dead and wounded children of Gaza in the perma-stoopid National Review:
“And the casualties are disproportionate: Hamas has arranged it that way. If necessary, sympathetic photographers take pictures of children who pretend to be injured, and once [...]
Legendary pinup model Bettie Page died of pneumonia at the age of 85 in a Los Angeles, California, hospital Thursday, one week after suffering a heart attack, according to her agent.
“She captured the imagination of a generation of men and women with her free spirit and unabashed sensuality,” said agent Mark Roesler in a written [...]