Category: Politicismo…
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“Filling the Newshole”
Aside from being the worst phrase ever turned- this is how analysts describe exactly which news outlets get the most attention and for what reason…. read all about it, here!
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Little Mosque fills a need!
I heard about Little Mosque on the Prairie through NPR, initially. Then my friend Michael Gerard found the episodes online. A primetime offering from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, it is a show about a small community of Muslims living in rural Canada. While not exceptional, the show is cute, but for someone like myself who…
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Aqua Teen “Terror” Force
CNN reported on a series of “Bomb Scares” in Boston recently that turned out to be nothing more than an advertising campaign for the Cartoon Network’s Late Night “Adult Swim” program, “Aqua Teen Hunger Force”. Two men were arrested and millions of people from Bean-Town lived in fear of a possible terror attack that every…
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Frank Miller said what?!?!?!
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I was born in the wrong time…
Listening to NPR this morning, I found it ironic that on this day in 1960, John F. Kennedy, working towards a presidential election, said in a speech, “I do not speak for my church on public matters–and the church does not speak for me.” He was answering those critics who were alleging that the election…
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Batman: Freedom Fighter?!?
Anyone read Frank Miller? He’s worked in comics for decades, now. Wrote a Batman story that Tim Burton used as the basis for his film “Batman”. He came back to Batman a couple of years ago, writing a sequel to his long and often praised “Batman, The Dark Knight Returns” called “Batman, The Dark Knight…
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Oh, Enron, we but barely knew ye…
so I’m sitting at lunch today, and I end up sitting next to some business types, and man are they heated because supposedly, from what I overheard, they submitted their figures to their superiors within their corporate offices and had them returned by the men in the ivory towers because “the numbers aren’t right”. From…