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Elsewhere: President hating of a different kind
When I was a teenager and still bought a bulk of my music from Christian bookstores, I believed pretty much what I was told to believe. So I had little reason to doubt a video my dad picked up from a local Christian bookstore that more or less implicated President Clinton in all kinds of slimeball […]
Elsewhere: Hollywood blacklist returning?
Over at Patrol Magazine, David Sessions tackles an issue that came up for me in a recent dinner conversation: the reaction from some factions to the passing of Proposition 8 in California that resembles the kind of fearmongering hatred we have grown accustomed to from the religious right. So these activists want to see anyone […]
Inside Peoples Temple
The San Francisco Chronicle published a special section earlier this week marking the 30-year anniversary of the cynide-laced-Kool-aid-drinking mass suicide of Jim Jones’s Peoples Temple cult in South America. Included is an article written a little over a year before the tragedy that mentions Rosaylnn Carter in the lede and goes on to describe Jim Jones’s powerful presence […]
Elsewhere: Did Hillary Clinton really win?
It’s a good question to ask, considering that 31 of President-Elect Barack Obama’s first 47 appointments have direct ties to the family dynasty of his former Democratic primary nemesis. Tom Engelhardt explores that question in this blog post at The Nation. Those hardcore Hillary supporters who, like one of my co-workers (a lifelong Democrat who has re-registered […]
Elsewhere: How to Kinkade a movie
As if it isn’t bad enough that a movie inspired by crazy rich Christian painter Thomas Kinkade even exists, Vanity Fair has obtained a memo allegedly written by the Painter of Light advising the filmmakers of how to best bring one of his pieces to life. There are 16 guidelines included in the memo. The most important […]
Why free agency sucks
After 11 years and 12 trips to the disabled list, pitcher Kerry Wood will not be returning next season for the only big league team whose uniform he has ever worn. Why? Well, according to this article, it wasn’t because Wood wanted to go.
Elsewhere: Danny Boyle talks Slumdog
Like Peter Sciretta at Slash Film, I was a little skeptical when I first heard Danny Boyle was making a movie involving India’s version of the popular game show Who Wants To Be A Millionaire. Peter Sciretta: When I first heard about the film, the only thing that really attracted me to it was your […]
Elsewhere: One in 12.5 million
Talk about long odds. A recent study done under not-so-scrupulous terms showed that spam e-mail has about a one in 12.5 million chance of suckering the recipient into a sale. Jim Carrey’s character in “Dumb and Dumber” apparently isn’t the only one who would see possibility in those odds. Even returns that poor, given the volume […]