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• Oh Dear God, Make Them Stop: The Hill Picks The Most Beautiful List

  Published: July 30, 2007, 4:11 pm

  Tags: Culture Life Entertainment

  Just proving once again that politics really is a beauty pageant, the publication The Hill puts out their “Hottest on the Hill” list. The only consolation? Nancy Pelosi is on the list.

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• Another Toy Recall

  Published: August 2, 2007, 6:02 pm

  Tags: Health Science, Culture Life Entertainment

  YahooNews: Toy-maker Fisher-Price is recalling 83 types of toys - including the popular Big Bird, Elmo, Dora and Diego characters - because their paint contains excessive amounts of lead. The worldwide recall being announced Thursday involves 967,000 plastic preschool toys made by a Chinese vendor and sold in the United States between May and

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• Open Thread

  Published: August 2, 2007, 11:29 pm

  Tags: Culture Life Entertainment, Campaigns Elections, Open Thread

  CNN’s Jacki Schechner takes a look at the impact YouTube is having on politics and the campaign. (h/t Scarce) Sam Seder waxes poetic on the importance of video   (h/t BraveNewFilms)I love this. For me, the “YouTube-ization” of politics has as much to do with empowering all citizens and dis-empowering the media

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• Bonds Ties Aaron; Say It Ain't So

  Published: August 5, 2007, 7:55 pm

  Tags: Culture Life Entertainment, Sports

  is banned from baseball for life for betting on the game itself. At the time nothing was more sacred. Until now. Shoeless Joe was banned from baseball for life for involvement in the fixing of the 1919 World Series. At the time nothing was more sacred. The home run record of Hammerin’ Hank was as pure as the driven snow. Unassailable by

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• The Opus Cartoon You'll Only See at Salon

  Published: September 3, 2007, 1:43 pm

  Tags: Internet News, Culture Life Entertainment

  Click on image for full strip Joan Walsh at Salon: Last week we told you that Salon was running two “Opus” cartoons, featuring spiritual seeker Lola Granola’s stint as a “radical Islamist,” that many newspapers, including the Washington Post, declined to publish. This week, Salon is running Berkeley

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• ACLU Publishes On-Line Graphic Novel

  Published: September 10, 2007, 1:10 pm

  Tags: Culture Life Entertainment, Civil Liberties

  click on the graphic to see more….

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• Kathy Griffin's Emmy Remarks to Be Censored because?

  Published: September 12, 2007, 10:01 am

  Tags: Culture Life Entertainment

  Remember her Coulter rant?  Download (1639)   Play (2695) QT only She had the nerve not to thank Jesus and make a joke. “Kathy Griffin’s offensive remarks will not be part of the E! telecast on Saturday night,” the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences said in a statement Monday. In her speech, Griffin said

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• Thou Shalt Not Kill

  Published: October 8, 2007, 12:48 pm

  Tags: Culture Life Entertainment, Religion

  cautioned against violent entertainment, from holding heavily attended Halo nights and stocking their centers with multiple game consoles so dozens of teenagers can flock around big-screen televisions and shoot it out. The alliance of popular culture and evangelism is challenging churches much as bingo games did in the 1960s. And the question

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• I hate the Phone

  Published: October 16, 2007, 7:38 pm

  Tags: Culture Life Entertainment

  Are you getting tons of tele-marketing calls at like 7AM? I signed up on that website a few years ago which was supposed to block me from getting any of these “Hi, are you the owner of the home? Let’s talk about your long distance service. How about some aluminum siding?” Usually it’s an electronic voice these days, but if

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• Laura Bush respecting the culture of the Middle East

  Published: October 27, 2007, 1:03 pm

  Tags: Culture Life Entertainment, International Perspectives, Laura Bush, Middle East

  I wonder how long it will take for Laura Bush to be attacked over this. Respecting customs of other cultures seems to be a horrible thing for some. I remember when Nancy Pelosi had the audacity to show some respect and the righties barked.

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• Open Thread

  Published: November 2, 2007, 11:45 pm

  Tags: Culture Life Entertainment, Open Thread, Entertainment

  Hopefully there won’t be a writer’s strike on Monday. I did see that one of my fav’s—Joss Whedon along with Eliza Dushku (Faith from Buffy) have a new deal on a show called “Dollhouse,” that looks very interesting.

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• Rebels With a Cause : Kid Activists Make Wingers Cry

  Published: November 14, 2007, 4:11 pm

  Tags: Culture Life Entertainment

  Download (972)   Play (1252)  Download (662)   Play (639) We at C&L couldn’t have been more pleasantly surprised to find our very good friend Ava Lowery of Peace Takes Courage being spotlighted as one of America’s “Rebels With a Cause”: remarkable youths committed to “changing

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• Happy Buy Nothing Day

  Published: November 23, 2007, 1:29 pm

  Tags: Ads, Culture Life Entertainment, Economy, Movies Movie Reviews, Satire

  Today, in addition to being the biggest consumer debt orgy shopping day of the year, is Buy Nothing Day. Now in its 15th year, the popular Buy Nothing Day is celebrated every November by environmentalists, social activists and concerned citizens in as many as 65 countries. Timed to coincide with Black Friday (this year on Friday, November 23)

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• Bill O'Reilly's Blockbuster Interview With ALF?!?

  Published: December 2, 2007, 7:03 pm

  Tags: Bill O Reilly, Culture Life Entertainment, Interviews, Media Criticism

  This is what passes for news on Fox’s top ranked show?  Download (491)   Play (517)  Download (412)   Play (339) We have two foreign occupations costing American lives daily with no end in sight, the economy is teetering, we’re about a month out from the first Presidential primaries, there’s even

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• If You Are Thinking About Buying a Book This Holiday Season

  Published: December 9, 2007, 12:00 pm

  Tags: Blogs, Books Book Reviews, Culture Life Entertainment

  And even if you weren’t already, perhaps you might. If so, the General has a worthwhile suggestion for you. To me, this kind of thing is what this time of year is all about.

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