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Selling it

( Art andPolitics )

Before creating the television show, The West Wing, Aaron Sorkin wrote the movie, The American President.  It is one of my favorite movies.  The penultimate scene is at the end of the movie were President Shepherd faces down his critics.  From link: INT. THE PRESS BRIEFING ROOM – EARLY MORNING ROBIN is on her last [...]

The democratic Internet

( Art andPolitics andTechnology )

A good example of why net neutrality is imporant is covered, indirectly, by this article from the Washington Post. For years, old recordings have piled up in the archives at Verve Records, including beloved jazz tracks that had no market big enough to justify pressing new discs. But thanks to the Internet, music lovers are [...]

James Wolcott on he-manism in conservatives

( Art andPolitics )

James Wolcott makes a discovery. I believe I have discovered the sacred text that inspires and animates ferocious, fur-bearing authors such as David Brooks, John Tierney, NRO’s Stanley Kurtz, and Harvey Mansfield–author of Manliness (which gets a rough going-over in next weeks NY Times Book Review by Walter Kirn)–to assert male prerogative and keep women [...]

Our Brand Is Crisis

( Art andPolitics )

New York Magazine reviews Our Brand is Crisis. Read it, see the movie. It’s hard to know whether to marvel or weep when James Carville goes into his Bill Clinton–meets–Looney Tunes act in Rachel Boynton’s knockout documentary Our Brand Is Crisis—the context is so morally topsy-turvy. As a high-priced consultant to the 2002 Bolivian presidential [...]

Trent Lott, not so friendly

( Art andPolitics )

Trent Lott has had a love/hate/hate relationship with the White House since he lost his leadership position over his loose lips. At Crooks and Liars, there is a video from Hardball where Lott says that he will override Bush’s veto on the ports issue. Snarky movie paraphrase: Is this the end of Rove?

You bad boy!

( Art andPolitics )

Paul Rudnick, writing in The New Yorker, has some fun with the Vatican’s recent pronouncements about homosexuality and the priesthood. A MEMO FROM THE VATICAN by PAUL RUDNICK From: His Holiness To: All seminaries Subject: While the Church approves of ordaining “transitory” homosexuals—that is, those men willing to take subways and buses rather than taxis—according [...]

Done to death

( Art andPolitics )

It’s over.

‘shop it!

( Art andPolitics )

Worth1000.com sponsors Photoshop contests of one sort or another. This is from the Time Machine 9 contest.

Ready Kids? Rex is.

( Art andPolitics )

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has a new program to teach kids about preparedness. It features Rex, the gayest cougar this side of BYU. The whole site is pretty funny. Rex is married to Purrcilla. Aren’t they just the butchest?

The Mozart Project

( Art )

This is a great location for information about Mozart. The Mozart Project Check it out.