Here is the fascinating story of how two men who were wrongly labeled terrorists and imprisoned in Guantanamo Bay were reunited with a guard who befriended them. Their story was recounted in Michael Winterbottom’s brilliant film, Road to Guantanamo.
Bill Moyers interviews The Wire creator David Simon on crime, politics and journalism. They cover a lot of territory about modern America. If you haven’t watched the most powerful show created for television, this interview will inspire you to.
I love Will Ferrell and I love this PSA for protecting health insurance execs.
NYC public housing rules are now outlawing people from owning large dogs. The ban goes so far as to name specific unwelcome breeds including rottweilers, doberman pinschers and of course pit bull or pit bull mixes. I find this scenario to be problematic on many levels. Such measures amount to plain old discrimination and propagate misinformed and misguided views about these animals. On the very block where I live, we have several pit bulls that couldn’t be any more loving. I myself owned a rottweiler for fourteen years who earned the love of all of my neighbors. It is clear that these rules were enacted out of fear, but reading between the lines it is not hard to see that the fear stems not from the animals themselves but rather the owners. Some folks are terrified of young people of color and even more when they own a pet that has been unfairly portrayed as a vicious killer. Smells like good old-fashioned racism to me.
Food, Inc. is a new documentary that examines the industry and politics surrounding the food we eat. A while back, I worked with designers to conceptualize several of the film’s graphic segments including the opening title sequence. The film is currently in theaters nationwide.
Jacob Holdt is a photographer of Danish descent. He began hitchhiking across the US in the 1970s armed with a small camera. A theme emerged. His massive body of work includes photos shot around the world, but it is his intimate gaze into social class structure of America that strikes me as the most fascinating material.
It seems that there is an Orwellian eBook problem going on. Big Brother decided to wipe the slate clean on some people’s Kindle ebook readers. Between this and the ordeal this past Spring when Amazon delisted gay themed books, one has to ask “what on good earth is going on over there”.
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Perhaps you are ambivalent about social media networks. At the annual TED conference, Clay Shirky gave an interesting talk about how twitter and other social platforms have been utilized to overcome censorship and break news.
Documentary filmmaker, Errol Morris has been contributing to the NY Times Opinion section for some time now. Working within the same tradition, another documentarian - Alex Gibney is now maintaining a blog for The Atlantic.
Stephen Colbert will be guest editing the June 8th issue of Newsweek. This kind of reminds me of the time that Jon Stewart went onto Crossfire to tell the “journalists” that they were hurting our country (this event spelled the end of the program) or the fact that ex-SNL funny man Al Franken is still embattled over a Senatorial seat in Minnesota. Perhaps comedians have some of the best perspectives on news and politics because they also have a sense of humor.
Map the Fallen is a web-project that utilizes google earth to pay tribute to the 5700 US soldiers who have been killed in the line of service in Iraq and Afghanistan. Each soldier is separately profiled and plotted onto the map.
Seed Magazine has designed a very cool interactive piece called The Universe in 09. The project celebrates the kind of creative thinking that makes the human experience a more positive one.
Kal Penn (aka Kumar from the Harold and Kumar cult films) has traded in White Castle for the White House. The actor has left a regular role on Fox’s House to join the White House staff as an Asscociate Director in the Office of Public Liaison.
The freedom to work at home with everything at your fingertips sounds pretty liberating. Writer-designer David Barringer explains why it is symptomatic of a generation squeezed.
Today is Barack Obama’s sixtieth day in office as the President of the United States of America. He is doing the most impossible job at what may be the most impossible time. I was surprised to see how quickly he addressed many of my concerns ranging from Guantanamo Bay and the War in Iraq to issues of social change. Of course, the big topic is the economy. His proposed budget is an extremely progressive sign of landmark change. I suppose it’s fair to say that we all have mixed emotions about the economic crisis as we should, our President included. Putting all of this aside, Barack made history yesterday on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, as the first sitting US President to appear as a guest on a late night talk show. It feels really good to have a president that makes me laugh and smile. I simply can’t think of another Head of State known for his character and affability to Barack’s tune, and this is no small thing in leadership at times like these.
With the devastation our interconnected global economy here, it may be time to start considering salvagepunk and use cinema as a guide of what to be wary of.
The promise beneath this? Keep the technology, keep consumption, but make it “thoughtful”, make it conscious, make it responsible. Gild your laptop, hammer some bronze, and think of the slow dance of the new wind-turbines on the horizon.
Crips & Bloods: Made in America is a forthcoming documentary on the history of the the two rival gangs. The films’s director, Stacy Peralta posted a statement on the project’s website addressing why he wanted to address the subject.
I set out to make Crips & Bloods: Made in American to answer the following questions: if affluent, middle-class white American teenagers were forming gangs, arming themselves with automatic weapons and killing one another, how would our country respond? Would our government step in to investigate the crisis, counsel the victims, heal the community, and direct funds towards a lasting solution? Or would our government allow this violence to continue unabated, decade after decade after decade?
I thought I’d share two worthwhile programs that I watched on PBS this week. The Lobotomist is a documentary that tells the story of Dr. Walter Freeman’s rise and fall in medicine. He was the creator of a surgical procedure that was once used for a wide array of psychological conditions, known as a transorbital lobotomy. While some questioned his methods, Freeman’s treatment became so common and easy to perform that many thousands of patients underwent it. In fact, he once personally performed twenty five transorbital labotomies in one day, while another physician outdid him with seventy five in a single day. The arch of Freeman’s career truly is fascinating.
Now we move from science to the economy. The Frontline program produced an insightful episode on how Wall Street and our credit markets collapsed a few months ago like a house of cards. Inside the Meltdown is a gaze into the current economic disaster, beginning with the Bear Stearns bailout last spring. The documentary paints a terrifying portrait in a language that allows for anyone not familiar with the banking industry to understand what happened, why and who the major players were. Unfortunately, this is just the first chapter in a story that is far from over.
The use of obvious analogies complimented with visual aids is how some members of the US Senate think we need to spend precious time on the Senate floor. I wonder what this guy’s big ideas for a better stimulus package would be like. I’m kind of sickened to know that my tax payer dollars give this man a salary.
Michael Winterbottom is one of the most unique and prolific filmmakers in cinema today. With each project he ventures into new territory sliding in and out of genres with ease. What I have found to be so particularly alluring about his work, is that there is a clear voice that is always looking for new ways to use the medium of film. In the last few years, he has experimented with blurring documentary into more traditional forms of story telling, resulting in a seemingly new language. Now, he has taken on Naomi Klein’s The Shock Doctrine as a point of departure. The pairing of Winterbottom and Klein is sure to make for an intense film.
There is an inherent responsibility that comes with directing a documentary film. With each edit, the director is given the choice to show or not show, and ultimately influence an audience with their version of the “truth” on a given subject. In the last year, there were two particularly important documentaries that saw theatrical release. Errol Morris’ Standard Operating Procedure is arguably one of the most important documentaries ever made, simply because of the questions it raises about “truth,” “documentation,” and “responsibility.” This film is not only challenging for the filmmaker, but the viewer as well. It asks us to step outside of a more comfortable place and forgo the idea of film as entertainment entirely.
The other film that I am thinking of which treads in territory that is both treacherous and necessary comes from the controversial filmmaker, Tony Kaye. After conquering the world of advertising with his own genre defining style, Kaye found the spotlight in Hollywood with his heavily criticized film American History X. The story behind the film’s creation had perhaps become more contentious than the movie itself, leaving Kaye on the outside of a studio run system. He returned to commercials and music videos where his career had begun. All the while, Kaye was allocating his profits into a self-financed documentary project that would take well over a decade to complete. With Lake of Fire, Kaye charges head-on towards one of the most difficult topics of social consequence facing this nation, a woman’s right to choose. Throughout the film, Kaye manages to stay unbelievably unswayed and focuses his efforts on trying to understand what is shaping the argument on both sides. The film is exceptionally hard; there is no question about that. It is also exceptionally important. Kaye did an admirable thing and it’s up to us, the viewer to face it.
Here is an interview with Tony Kaye in which he discusses his experience with Lake of Fire.
At today’s inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States of America, the benediction speech was given by civil rights leader Rev. Jospeh Echols Lowery. The closing moments of his speech were just so perfectly uplifting at a moment like this.
Lord, in the memory of all the saints who from their labors rest, and in the joy of a new beginning, we ask you to help us work for that day when black will not be asked to get back, when brown can stick around (laughter). When yellow will be mellow (laughter). When the red man can get ahead, man (laughter), and when white will embrace what is right.
Let all those who do justice and love mercy say amen.
Audience: Amen!
Rev Lowery: Say amen
Audience: Amen!
Rev. Lowery: and amen.
Audience: Amen! (Cheers, applause.)
Yes We Did 11-4-08
I’m kind of lost for words to describe this moment in American history. The joy that came last night when Barack Obama was announced the 44th President of the US was followed by a bit of disbelief as I got out of bed. After voting very early in the morning, I travelled to Chester, Pennsylvania to aid Obama’s ground operations in an effort to get out the vote. I had been to Chester a month earlier to sign up unregistered voters as the deadline drew near. Both of my experiences in this town were moving to say the least. It really isn’t until one engages with the people of a community quite so eonomically different from their own, that one can really even begin to understand what it’s like for them.
The city of Chester has great American history. It was first settled in 1645. The oldest public building still in use in this country is actually in Chester. Obama’s town headquarters is located directly opposite this building. It’s surreal to take a good look around and see what has happened. These structures have all the familiar feel of the colonial buildings that I grew up around in Philadelphia. The difference is that these buildings feel like they belong to the set of a post-apocalyptic sc-fi film in which people have been suddenly evacuated. The vibe is almost like an urban area 51. This was as picturesque as Chester got. Chester seems to be a place that utterly lacks opportunity. The average house hold lives well below what is considered the poverty level. Almost all of the factory doors that once provided jobs have long been closed. There are simply no opportunities. The town has been plagued with understandable drug and violence issues that come as a result of this kind of economic loss.
I went door to door in areas in which only two out of ten houses on a block might be inhabited. The vast majority of the population here is African American. I saw and I heard things that I have only read about or seen in passing. One person shouted out their window, telling me that they weren’t allowed to vote because they had been a recently released felon. My heart sank a little bit when I told him that he absolutely was allowed to vote, and that it was his right in the state of PA. Another person had asked me if they could vote, because they hadn’t participated in the primary. And yet another questioned whether or not they were allowed to vote for a Democrat because they were a registered Republican. This kind of disinformation is hard to understand. I saw children in diapers answering the front door when I knocked. I met children who looked at me with complete suspicion about my being in their neighborhood. I saw several graffiti murals dedicated to the young life of a fallen fellow gang member. I saw boarded up home after home after home. There were stray animals walking around looking for scraps.
And though I had been reminded by a few people that I certainly hadn’t put myself in the safest of positions, I had the power of one word on my side, “Obama.” The goal was to register voters and then get them to the polls. People who would otherwise have no reason to believe in government or even the democratic right to vote often smiled and thanked me for knocking on their door. They came out in record numbers and that is truly worth something. For the most part, I felt that my two days spent in Chester were color blind in how my fellow person interacted with me. I don’t know if tomorrow or the day after would be the same. Perhaps I would be less welcome. The entire experience makes me very aware that we do not have racial equality in this country. There will almost certainly be those who use this great victory to call the playing field equal, I do not believe it is.
Though we did make history. Now we know that we can do more than “hope”. We have reason to believe. Not just for the color of his skin but also for his honorable tireless campaign that has worked to unify us all, I am proud to call Barack Obama our next president. And furthermore, I believe last night was probably the most patriotic evening I’ll ever know; one in which I can proudly say I am glad to be an American. Yes we did.
This is what happened when a desperate John McCain asked some Hollywood directors to create attack ads for him.
The rock band Foo Fighters are pretty annoyed at the Mcain-Palin campaign. They were unaware that the campaign had been parading around using their song “Hero” as a theme song. The band released a statement against the use of the song.
To have it appropriated without our knowledge and used in a manner that perverts the original sentiment of the lyric just tarnishes the song.
I was absolutely disgusted to learn that Sarah Palin, the self proclaimed “hockey mom” will be dropping the season opening puck for my hometown Philadelphia Flyer’s. But then I realized that this has the potential to blow up in her face. While she may look at this opportunity as a free way into the hearts of Pennsylvanian’s, she just may learn the hard way how completely unwelcoming Philly sports fans can be. I can’t wait to see footage of the boos.
During last night’s Vice Presidential debates, Sarah Palin quoted Ronald Reagan in her closing remarks. The nature of the quote had to do with America’s freedoms coming under attack. So when exactly did the TV cowboy say this? He said it here. I can’t wait for the sacrine sweet “Joe Sixpack” and her smug-fake-American-pie face to disappear back into the desolation of Wasilla, where she will be mauled by a kodiak bear the evening after husband is impaled on the horns of a large buck after he wipes out on his snow mobile.
If you care about this coming presidential election and own an iPhone, you may want to check out the new Obama iPhone application. It looks like a pretty brilliant way to keep afoot of the race and stay involved. Can you imagine something like this from the campaign of the old angry guy who doesn’t know how to turn on his PC? I guess that’s just me being a “cosmopolitan elitist.” Oh and by the way, if you don’t care about the election and have my phone number, lose it.
I heard some great nicknames for Sarah Palin: Carbiou Barbie and Bible Spice. Its just bone chilling how appropriate either one is for her.
As Wall Street continues to hang by a thread everyone is searching for a good game-plan out of a seemingly impossible scenario. Michael Moore has proposed a bailout strategy that actually comes with some very logical points. In a nutshell, Moore suggests that the very richest Americans who prospered most (more than $700 Billion the last 8 years) should pull themselves out of turmoil, not the flailing US taxpayers.
The richest 400 Americans—that’s right, just four hundred people—own MORE than the bottom 150 million Americans combined. 400 rich Americans have got more stashed away than half the entire country! Their combined net worth is $1.6 trillion. During the eight years of the Bush Administration, their wealth has increased by nearly $700 billion—the same amount that they are now demanding we give to them for the “bailout.” Why don’t they just spend the money they made under Bush to bail themselves out? They’d still have nearly a trillion dollars left over to spread amongst themselves!
- Michael Moore
He does have a strong point. It’s amazing to me that we have set up a society that asks taxpayers to front $700 Billion (a low figure) to help out corporations, while on the other hand it doesn’t really expect corporations to pay taxes and help out Americans. The fact that our government can essentially get all the players at a table to try to pass a bill of this nature pretty much overnight, but hasn’t even attempted to fix our broken healthcare or educational systems is unacceptable. Dealing with either of these issues would cost a fraction of the money being asked of taxpayers to reward Wall Street for their greed and gross negligence with our money. But fixing education and healthcare wouldn’t be good for those who would like to drive a wedge in the middle class and divide America into two classes (rich or poor). How can we expect our elected officials to act with any sense of ethics when they are indeed the insane running the asylum. Democracy is truly a great thing, mostly for our forefathers good intuition and belief that the country belongs to the people. So what needs to happen?
We do need a game-plan to reinvigorate our financial market. Just as badly, we need to undo the electoral college, abolish lobbyists from DC and to create campaign reform in which all candidates are limited to an equal spending budget appropriated to them by the government. These steps truly give power back to the people unlike the bullshit rhetoric of why shrinking government is good. It would eliminate special interest that has literally hijacked and controlled pretty much every bill passed in DC, affecting everything from the food we eat to the air we breathe. These steps would almost certainly see the end of the lame two party system that has continued to fail the citizens of this nation. And it would become a guideline so no politician could seize an office because of the size of their bank account. While that is a mouthful, I don’t see how we will stop the sky from falling if we don’t begin to do this. I’ll keep dreaming.
After saving the economy, John McCain found spare time between naps to show up for the first of three scheduled debates with Obama. Though he desperately wanted to delay the debate, his “tactic” or “strategy” (whichever you prefer) blew up in his own face. McCain had no choice but to face America. I was so glad that he did decide to come. This meant that my elitist friends and I would be entertained with political theater to accompany our cheese plates and fancy cucumber cocktails. We had so much fun laughing and gasping that we managed to miss McCain’s greatest faux pax of the evening, “Horse Shit, Horse Shit.”
Comedian Sara Silverman wants to persuade the younger generation of Semitic voters to help Obama win Florida with the help of good old Jewish guilt.
John McCain is a sitting duck. For months, I have been saying that he has been given a free ride in the media. Throughout the Spring and Summer months McCain quietly sat safely in the background as Hilary Clinton and Barack Obama went to town on each other. As should be expected, McCain’s campaign received a bump in the polls in the days following the RNC. The hot topic obviously became the choice of Palin for VP. Just as John McCain’s camp has worked vigorously to suppress the details of Palin’s sordid political past and personal life, they have gone out of their way to avoid any real discussion of topics that Americans want to hear. Following the Palin chapter of this campaign story, we entered a new phase last week with the complete collapse of our banking system.
This economic catastrophe hasn’t done anything positive for John McCain’s campaign; in fact just the opposite. Last week we finally saw our puppet media scrutinize McCain’s record as he shoved his foot deep in his own mouth, proclaiming that the economy was sound. And now just two days away from the first scheduled Presidential debate, McCain’s position in national polls has dropped to an estimated ten points below Obama among likely voters. So what nasty trick could his scummiest of scum campaign coordinate to fix their problems? He claims to have put his entire campaign on hold so as to be able to personally go to DC and fix our economy for us. In doing so McCain has averted any further decline in the polls that would seem inevitable after one round of debates with Obama. Should Obama play along with this trick, John McCain will crown himself the candidate who put our country first and his campaign second. And if Obama refuses to play along McCain will make the same claim. only he will say Obama is a selfish politician. Brilliant move again by the real evil-doers on the right. This slight of hand is not acceptable and MUST be criticized aggressively in the press. I won’t hold my breath.
I am very suspicious of the Federal Government’s Wall Street bail out plan. While I admittedly know very little about economics, I know a nasty pattern when I see one. The Bush Administration’s desire to rush towards such a plan seems irresponsible. Imagine that from them. I’d argue that its a classic case of “disaster capitalism.” What they are proposing seems to be so obviously flawed. Policies that ultimately allow the rich to get richer while everyone else is left holding the bag will be rushed through in a time of panic, no questions asked.
If I went to Vegas with a friend and he blew all of his money in the casinos and came to me asking to borrowing cash, I’d expect some sort of reasonable explanation as to how he lost his money before I’d consider giving him mine. So why should the American taxpayer fix these nasty gambling debts without an ounce of oversight or regulation? Certainly something is very wrong with this kind of economy; certainly something is very wrong with this kind of governing. Are we suppose to accept that ethics and trade don’t have to coexist? The one voice I generally trust when looking at issues through the lens of economics is that of Paul Krugman. In his op-ed yesterday, all of my suspicions were confirmed.
For more on disaster capitalism read Naomi Klein’s The Shock Doctrine.
My mother lives deep in the South; the important swing state of Florida to be exact. Several years ago she moved from a more liberal and socialist region of St. Catherine’s, Canada. She and her husband ironically made the move in search of better weather and a booming housing market to profit from. Instead they got hurricanes, an economic crisis and evangelicals. For all these reasons and more, I was so proud when my mother told me that this Labor Day weekend she volunteered her time at the local headquarters for the Obama campaign.
Comedian and political satirist of the Daily Show, John Stewart is on his way to becoming America’s top journalist. I’m sure Stewart was humbled to find out where he stacked up against real TV pundits and then probably laughed his ass off.
For about two seconds, John McCain’s campaign ad “The One” created a stir. Aimed at the kind of fuck-nuts who actually believe in and look forward to “end times,” the ad uses their crazy evangelical secrete handshake codes and likens Obama to “The Dark One” himself (no pun intended). I find this quite disturbing on Mr. McCain’s behalf. Mind you, what’s more disturbing is the overwhelming number of people who believe these kinds of messages.
Tim LeHaye is a lunatic and the author of the unbelievably popular book series Left Behind, based on the end time prophecies. Terrifyingly over 63 million copies of this garbage have been sold. Not only does LeHaye bare a striking resemblance to many an interpretation of Lucifer himself (see below), but he also has some keen views on whether or not Barack Obama is in indeed the devil.
“I can see by the language he uses why people think he could be the antichrist,” adds LaHaye, “but from my reading of scripture, he doesn’t meet the criteria. There is no indication in the Bible that the antichrist will be an American.”
No shit Tim. He couldn’t possibly be the devil because you are.
Mark Bryan’s paintings are quite satirical and concerned with the world we live in. The one below is entitled, The First 1000 and was created in 2004. I think it is a strong reminder that thousands of people are being killed and maimed in Iraq with no signs of an end to the war.
This video for El-P’s “Smithereens” is probably one of the most overwhelming music videos ever made. I am hard pressed to think of another music video that has utilized the format to make such a pronounced political and social statement in recent history.
For quite some time now, I have had zero faith in mass media as a place from which to expect truth in journalism. While it is not a surprise that Fox News is a fraudulent source working under the guise of “real news”, the network’s complete lack of ethics never ceases to amaze me. Apparently, the network thinks that it is okay to combat disapproval of their practices by degrading the character of their critics through any means possible. That is just what happened when they aired altered photos of recent professional critics. No surprise here, just disgust.
The political right will just never have the same sense of humor as the left. Republicans are just so easy to make fun of. So remember when you vote Republican you’ll get what you deserve.
John McCain is a sitting duck. He made a rather sad speech scheduled to coincide with Barack Obama’s nomination clincher that even Fox News had to make fun of over and over.
Finally the Democratic Primary is over. I’m beginning to realize that John McCain’s free ride is over. Half a year of debates against Obama is what he has to look forward to. Good luck old man; you are going to need it. Its time for “Change.”
Some illegal immigrants in the US have spent a lifetime in this country. Many have families and loved one here. And many have worked hard as cheap labor, taking the work that nobody else will do. This is obviously a complex issue. To those opposed to amnesty for these illegal immigrants, this wraps up your argument in a nutshell. (Look closely)
French electro group Justice have stirred something of a ruckus with the video for their new single Stress. Obviously inspired by Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange (1971), a young group of modernized droogs uniformed in jackets adorned with the band’s logo are seen making a malenky bit of the old ultra-violent. Perhaps what is most troubling to those offended by the video is not the aggressive nature of the gang, but rather the very clear color of their skin. The boys appear to be of North African and Middle Eastern decent; in other words the Parisian lower-class. The video directed by Romain Gavras has drawn much comparison to La Haine (1985) because of its documentary style of execution. While certainly intriguing and well executed, the video never offers up the kind of social complexity that would allow us to understand this kind of behavior.
In 2004 British animator Simon Robson created What Barry Says, a rather critical short animation on America’s politics of war. The film stands as a reminder that the war in Iraq is still going on and was never a just cause.
In the last few years Dove, the manufacturer of soaps and beauty products has been running their Campaign for Real Beauty. The idea is a global campaign focused on a social change that recognizes that real women come in different sizes and shapes. Dove’s online viral Evolution spot was truly something special to see; again they were punctuating the notion that real people don’t walk around looking like touched up photos.
With this kind of advertising one would think that a company like Dove is not only socially concerned about those who buy their products, but the world at large. I was terribly disappointed to see an ad created by Greenpeace designed to raise awareness of Dove’s not so friendly practices in Indonesia. Unilever the brand’s parent company is participating in trade for palm oil that is leading to the destruction of valuable forest and wildlife. See the very telling ad and lets make Unilever reconsider their trade.
Recently, I posted about Amnesty International’s TV ad depicting the process of waterboarding. The spot was actually the second of three commercials in the organization’s Unsubscribe Campaign. The first spot portrays interrogation techniques known as stress positions. During the filming of both ads, the actual tortuous process displayed was carried out to ensure authenticity.
Radiohead has teamed up with MTV EXIT on a campaign designed to raise awareness about human trafficking. In a music video for the track All I Need, the band takes the subject matter head on. That’s right; all of the stuff we use and consume is made somewhere by somebody else.
Just how well do you know where your food comes from? Before your meal made its way to your plate, how did the ingredients start out? Everyday, it is highly likely that you are ingesting food that can be traced back to a very large and unfriendly corporation called Monsanto.
The company controls a large majority of the seeds that are used in this country for farming. Through the influence of money and intimidation techniques, this company has re-written our laws and claims patents on some of the most fundamental parts of our food chain. Like the use of seeds for planting. Monsanto historically has been a chemical company. In the 60’s they were makers of agent orange, a dangerous cancer causing pesticide. Gradually, the company shifted into the agriculture business consolidating competition under their roof. Now Monsanto is moving in on our dairy supply.
Who is paying the price? American farmers are absolutely suffering and being bullied about. These genetically modified unnatural seeds are ending up in the greater portion of what we eat. What are we to do? First, get to know Monsanto. And secondly, eat less packaged food and purchase more local food from local green markets.
This SNL show opening skit re-envisions General Petraeus’ hearings before the House Armed Services Committee earlier in the week. Perhaps this spoof will help undecided voters choose which candidate deserves their vote for the coming presidential election.
Harold and Kumar may have found their way to White Castle, but now the guys are in a whole lot of trouble for different reasons. Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay releases nation wide April 25. I have nothing else to say.
I am greatly embittered by the war in Iraq. The US is 5 years deep into a quagmire situation that never should’ve taken place. While many politicians don’t mind thinking of American soldiers as pawns or collateral damage, they are real human beings with names, faces, families and friends. Our country is five years deep into this war and has just surpassed the mark of 4000 American soldier casualties. Featured in the NY Times online today is a memoriam to all of those who gave their lives entitled Casualties of War.
A NY Times Op-Ed discussing the ugly politics involved in farming local organic agriculture. Of course the big guy fears the little guy.
