progressive politics and regressive entertainment. like peanut and butter.
January 16, 2012 Leave a comment
Stephen Colbert is the supreme political satirist of our generation. Or maybe he should split that honor with The Onion, many of whose writers went on to work on his show. I’ve certainly never seen a better skewering of the whole idiotic (and evil) Corporations-are-people conservatism than this ad from the Colbert Super PAC.
January 16, 2012 Leave a comment
The January 13th edition of Doug Loves Movies is particularly worthwhile if you would enjoy hearing how David Cross winds up singing that he is the
Blackberry Buggerer from Birmingham — don’t leave your poop shoot un-attended!
I think it was David Cross who sang that.
Might have been Patton Oswalt.
Definitely Cross.
P.S. A blurry pic of Cross, Oswalt, and Wayne Federman at DLM can be found here.
January 16, 2012 10 Comments
Many white Americans of good will have never connected bigotry with economic exploitation. They have deplored prejudice but tolerated or ignored economic injustice.
January 16, 2012 7 Comments
Mel Gibson’s anti-Semitic tirade is back in the news, because the cop who reported it is suing his bosses:
Mee, who is Jewish, filed the suit in September 2010, claiming that he was overlooked for six to seven other posts after complaining to his bosses that the Oscar-winning star received preferential treatment from deputies.
He also alleges that his bosses ordered him to remove parts of his report about Gibson’s arrest, “effectively participating in covering up the anti-Semitic posture of Mr Gibson,” said his lawyers.
I’m of the opinion that there must be other cover-ups. Surely the anti-Semitic and anti-woman rants that we know about are not the only ones. In fact, when it comes to his misogyny, all one needed in order to see that Mel Gibson had issues was to examine his movie choices. Why else would he seem to get off on being in so many movies where his wife, girlfriend, or special-someone gets killed, raped, or raped-then-killed?
