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Are the Financial Media Downplaying Possibility of a Depression?

Sat, 10 May 2008 08:42:00 GMT

A major part of the problem is that the financial journalists who cover Wall Street are used to writing for Wall Street's customers--the very mortgage companies and financial institutions that were raking in millions from the subprime bubble.

Barack Obama & Co Fuck the Working Class

Sat, 10 May 2008 08:41:00 GMT

Obama could rally workers--Black, white and Latino--around a campaign that spoke to their concerns. But he won't. He'd rather assure Wall Street and Corporate America, who have shifted sharply away from the Republicans, that he isn't a real threat.

Scarlett Johansson & the Cult of Actress Rock Stars

Sat, 10 May 2008 08:41:00 GMT

Johansson's decision to record an album, when she's barely started as a movie star, seems capricious. Making it a record of Tom Waits songs, with help from David Bowie, adds a thin veneer of credibility, though the "vanity project" remains strong.

Middle-Aged Media Hacks Hate Hillary Clinton

Sat, 10 May 2008 08:40:00 GMT

When the media act like sheep - which is most of the time - I turn into a wolf. So, fuck those middle-aged, flagging pundits who find Obama flatters their driving desire to imagine themselves forever young in a bright, shiny, upscale world.

From Lolita to Miley Cyrus: Delicious Nymphets

Sat, 10 May 2008 08:39:00 GMT

Remember the then 16-year-old Britney Spears in 1998, bright-eyed, confident and lithe, gyrating sensationally in her school uniform while singing the ambiguous lyrics: "Hit me baby one more time". Suddenly, ogling schoolgirls was out in the open.

Cannes Film Festival: First Look

Sat, 10 May 2008 08:38:00 GMT

"Blindness," based on the bestselling 1998 novel by Nobel Prize-winning Portuguese writer José Saramago, stars Julianne Moore as an ophthalmologist's wife who ends up as the last survivor with sight in a city racked by a sudden onset of mass vision loss.

Politics as Showbiz

Sat, 10 May 2008 08:30:00 GMT

TMZ.com, the Web site that advertises itself as the “official site for entertainment news, celebrity gossip and Hollywood rumors,” has tracked all three candidates, even posting a mundane video of Senator John McCain leaving a Beverly Hills restaurant on his 71st birthday.

Paul Krugman: Is Obama Another Liberal Loser?

Sat, 10 May 2008 08:27:00 GMT

Obama’s white support continues to be concentrated among the highly educated; there was little in Tuesday’s results to suggest that his problems with working-class whites have significantly diminished.

Fight On, Hillary

Sat, 10 May 2008 08:20:00 GMT

She has a responsibility to play this game to the end, and I'll cheer her on till it's over.

"Dancing with the Stars"

Sat, 10 May 2008 08:18:00 GMT

There are more important things to get riled up about, but this television show with its glossy faux reality is so simple, so silly, so wonderfully frothy that it is positively unnerving to watch it take such a terrible, wrongheaded turn.

Meet the BoObs [Bourgeois Obamians]

Fri, 09 May 2008 08:20:00 GMT

Rush out and buy Barack Obama's coloring book: 'I Represent Bourgeois Democracy." It's a coalition of the privileged, consisting of huff & puff liberals and upwardly-mobile blacks. And, of course, the faithful media hacks who want to appear with it.

8: Most Popular Articles [Last 28 Days]

Fri, 09 May 2008 08:19:00 GMT

In real life everybody is constantly and openly speculating on the sexual nature and needs and eccentricities of every rising and demanding political personality. It’s a point of identification and differentiation. We vote for or against sex lives.

Myanmar [Burma] Disaster: Imperial Powers Itching to Intervene

Fri, 09 May 2008 08:18:00 GMT

“The death toll could mount to something like 250,000 people.” Such estimates need to be treated with caution as there is an unmistakable media propaganda campaign to vilify the Burmese junta in order to justify international intervention.

Sex & Society: Prostitutes Condemned with Extreme Prejudice

Fri, 09 May 2008 08:17:00 GMT

"I feel extremely angry at all the misinformation and the double standard that it's acceptable for boys who will be boys, but women who do this are basically like the devil's minions. We're condemned as 'loose' women. In fact, we're sex therapists."

3: Top Five Viral Videos

Fri, 09 May 2008 08:16:00 GMT

Women in Art [Incredible Montage]

I'm Getting Bored of Facebook

Justice - "Stress" (violent)

Olivia Munn: Boobs, Outakes & Bloopers

Lupe Fiasco - "Superstar" 2008

"Medical" Marijuana for Everyone

Fri, 09 May 2008 08:13:00 GMT

Sometimes I can't believe how Californian California is. Women walk around half-naked, waiters call patrons "dude," and medical marijuana is legal.

But I wondered just how legal. Could anyone buy it? Even me, who doesn't have cancer, AIDS, arthritis, glaucoma or even any previous pot-smoking experience?

Hillary Clinton: The Fight Stuff

Fri, 09 May 2008 08:09:00 GMT

NOTABLE in the Indiana and North Carolina primary results and in many recent polls are signs of a change in the gender weather: white men are warming to Hillary Clinton — at least enough to vote for her.

It’s no small shift. These men have historically been her fiercest antagonists. Their conversion may point less to a new kind of male voter than to a new kind of female vote-getter.

Photos from the Weird World of Bodybuilding

Fri, 09 May 2008 07:47:00 GMT

Popeye biceps, rippling six-packs, and supernaturally dark tans: these pumped-up people have trained for a Scandinavian bodybuilding contest by shaking off every last ounce of fat. But even if you admire their commitment, it is hard not to recoil in confusion at such asexual specimens.

The Loathsome Smearing of Israel's Critics

Fri, 09 May 2008 07:45:00 GMT

In the US and Britain, there is a campaign to smear anybody who tries to describe the plight of the Palestinian people. It is an attempt to intimidate and silence – and to a large degree, it works. There is nobody these self-appointed spokesmen for Israel will not attack as anti-Jewish: liberal Jews, rabbis, even Holocaust survivors.

If Barack is out of touch with America, then the media must be too

Fri, 09 May 2008 07:43:00 GMT

It’s not only that the people who create and run the media—and who love Obama—occupy the social and cultural upper rungs.

The world depicted in “the media,” broadly construed—not just straight journalism but everything we watch and read and hear—is overwhelmingly a bright, shiny, upscale, youngish world.