Posted on May 16, 2008
Comedian Margart Cho says the Bush administration has been great fodder for jokes, but has been tragic for the county.
By Akito Yoshikane
Margaret Cho knows how brutal Hollywood can be. In 2000, in her critically acclaimed one-woman comedy show, “I’m the One That I Want,” Cho, 39, chronicled the struggles of her short-lived 1994 ABC sitcom “All-American Girl.” The project nearly destroyed her. Network executives hired weight consultants to slim her down and ethnicity coaches who suggested she stick chopsticks in her hair to make her “more Asian.” The ordeal led Cho into an eating… more
Filmmaker Errol Morris has grown famous and revered as the pioneer of what could be called interrogatory cinema -- documentaries that do not merely document but probe into mysterious matters with the intention of… more
Kalle Lasn is a fighter for the right to communicate. A privilege, says the founder of Adbusters magazine, that goes one step farther than the freedom of speech.
"You can stand on the corner… more
A few years ago, a young union organizer asked me, "Which are the good churches and which are the bad ones?" He wanted a quick (and intellectually easy) way to understand which faith bodies… more
1) Obama and the Cynic. Charlie Pierce hits one out of the park...again.
2) Blue Dog Democrats fight Sen. Jim Webb's bill that would expand GI... more
The American Family Association is now referring to LGBT people as “g-ys” and same-sex relationships as “h-mos-xuality,” as if these words were expletives, reports Political Research... more
McCain's gone on the predictable offensive of painting Obama as a naive, pacifist, yellow-bellied, "Iran appeaser." Josh Marshall's got it right that Obama must stay on... more
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 By David Sirota
You’ve probably heard that John McCain once said, “I know a lot less about economics than I do about military and foreign policy issues.” This… more
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