Film review

In stills from Disney’s “The Princess and the Frog,” a young Tiana, our heroine, is shown with her parents, and, with a touch of “Fantasia,” is shown dancing with Prince Naveen after both of them were turned into frogs by dark v… Read full post »

Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is taking flak for having said, on the Senate floor, of the Repugnicans’ obstructionism in expanding health care for all Americans, not just for those who can afford to pay for for-profit health care (a.k.a. wealth care): “You think y… Read full post »

Associated Press photos

Openly gay artist Adam Lambert plants a kiss on an androgynous (but presumably XY-chromosome-possessing) keyboard player during his performance at last night’s American Music Awards. I love Lambert and I loved his same-sex kiss, except… Read full post »

Reuters photo

They look the same to me: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is surrounded by clerics during his swearing-in ceremony in Tehran in August (above). Although Ahmadinejad holds the title of president, it is Iran’s clerics who hold the power and call the shot… Read full post »

Carrie Prejean starts to leave Larry King’s show because he asked her a question that he wasn’t supposed to. Prejean, like Sarah Palin, represents a faux victimization that only harms, not helps, women. (You know that Prejean is a good Christian, by the way, because she wears… Read full post »

Film review (with gratuitous political commentary)

In stills from Robert Zemeckis’ version of “A Christmas Carol,” Ebenezer Scrooge, voiced by Jim Carrey, is confronted by the tortured ghost of his deceased business partner Jacob Marley and is shown by the Ghost of C… Read full post »

There were media reports that right before he fired (and/or while he was firing) on his comrades at Fort Hood, Palestinian-American U.S. Army psychiatrist Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan yelled "Allahu Akbar!" -- Arabic for "God is great!"

I didn't repeat those reports because officials hadn't substantia… Read full post »

“Dilbert” cartoonist Scott Adams for the first time, to my knowledge, has taken the baby-boom generation head on in his strip for today:

The “pointy-haired boss” of “Dilbert” for years has been the quintessential baby boomer, utterly clueless and incom… Read full post »

Media bias can be subtle. But there it is.

Take this from The Associated Press today:

A radical American imam on Yemen’s most-wanted militant list who had contact with two 9/11 hijackers praised alleged Fort Hood shooter Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan as a hero on his personal website [today].

The… Read full post »

Associated Press image

Palestinian-American Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, who joined the U.S. military before Sept. 11, 2001 (and who is pictured above in 2007), apparently struggled to reconcile his Muslim faith and Arab background in an anti-Muslim and anti-Arab environment. Ultimately,… Read full post »

Election results are coming in, and I fail to see how Repugnican wins for the governorships of New Jersey and Virginia are some harbinger of a big Repugnican comeback in 2010, as the media are speculating. There are a lot of purple areas of the United States that routinely go to… Read full post »

Today I received an e-mail from Organizing for America*, the remnants of Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign, titled "One year ago." It's meant to be nostalgic.

 Ah, yes -- memories:

It was almost one year ago, on November 4, 2008, that I walked into my neighborhood polling place know… Read full post »

There's been a lot of chatter lately about the obvious: That filthy-rich-wingnut-owned-and-operated Fox "News" -- often called "Faux News" -- isn't news, but is right-wing, pro-corporate propaganda. The buzz stems from the White House's announcement of the obvious that Fox ain't news -- and… Read full post »

My fantasy: Justice delayed is better than no justice at all. Dick Cheney deserves to die in federal prison.

Why does Dick Cheney's faulty, cold heart go on beating?

Why is washed-up former Vice President Dick acting like the Penguin to President Barack Obama's Batman?

Cheney, with his l… Read full post »

Film review

Boy hero Max hitches a ride on monster Carol in Spike Jonze's rather disappointing adaptation of Maurice Sendak's children's book Where the Wild Things Are.

After my boyfriend and I watched Spike Jonze's film "Where the Wild Things Are," we went to a bookstore and looked at Mauric… Read full post »

Joe Solmonese -- here he is rubbing shoulders with pseudo-progressive Billary Clinton (the Clintons did little to nothing for gay men and lesbians but they sure have liked their money!):

-- is the president of the Human Rights Campaign, probably the nation's most powerful gay and le… Read full post »

AFP graphic

Barack Obama is the third current or former Democratic U.S. president or vice president to have won the Nobel Peace Prize this decade. You just don't see any warhawk Repugnican politicians who put corporate profits far above mass civilian casualties on the peace-prize list, do you… Read full post »

More to come (off): A shirtless Levi Johnston holds infant Tripp, the apparent grandson of Sarah Palin-Quayle, in a photo for the July issue of GQ magazine. Johnston is about to go even more rogue than Palin-Quayle ever would.

It's official: the world is soon to see Levi Johnston's… Read full post »

Film review

Associated Press photos

Filmmaker Michael Moore attempts to speak to traders on Wall Street for his film "Capitalism: A Love Story" in March. At the end of "Capitalism," Moore correctly concludes: "Capitalism is an evil, and you cannot regulate evil. You have to… Read full post »

The American reaction to the news that the International Olympic Committee picked Rio de Janeiro instead of Chicago for the 2016 Olympic games demonstrates how we Americans think that it's all about U.S. -- er, us.

U.S.-centrism is so ingrained within us Americans that we can't even see it.… Read full post »

Sacramento Bee photo

Repugnican plutocrat and corporatocrat Meg Whitman, who is a billionaire, wants to buy the governorship of California with her personal fortune. Whitman had endorsed Mormon wingnut Mitt Romney in the 2008 Repugnican presidential nomination and supported the anti-gay… Read full post »

I earned a bachelor of science in journalism, so I think that I'm qualified enough to ask that question.

Recently, former President Jimmy Carter stated what those of us Americans who are intelligent and honest and sane already knew: that much of the opposition to President Barack Obama is rooted in… Read full post »