golden globes censorship?

I can’t be the only one who noticed that as soon as Bill Nighy (who won for his role in Gideon’s Daughter) started to allude to the War in Iraq, he was told to “wrap it up.” Of course, the disgusting and quite boring acceptance speech by Sasha Varon Cohen was allowed…
I’d like to know [...]

it’s a new year and…

here are a holiday break’s worth of thoughts…
I had to watch the new TV show “identity” just to see if it was as horrible as I thought it would be. Yes. It is. I thought, surely they won’t just blatantly stereotype identities? Yes. They do. Beyond racial, gender, and class stereotypes though, it just boxes [...]

nieces and nephews…

One thing I love about our monthly trip to visit Andrew’s brother (JD) and sister-in-law (Maria) is that I get a big dose of kids. Trinity is 3, Hunter is 6, and Brian just turned 13. I love playing with them even though I’m am constantly amazed at their video game addictions (3 and 6 [...]

Jailing Activists for the War on Terror

In another event which lets me know that our free speech is going the way of China’s, blogger and freelance journalist Josh Wolf was jailed last week for refusing to turn over video of a anti-WTO/G8 protest in San Francisco last summer.
Media coverage of this jailing has likened the situation to that of NYTimes’ Judith [...]

Lifestyle Evolution

another great piece from linguist geoff nunberg on the evolution of the word “lifestyle”– interesting to listen and then google news search the word in united states articles to see the occurrences.

FRRRRESH AIR

If you didn’t get to hear Fresh Air today, here it is. Geoff Nunberg talks about his new book, Talking Right: How Conservatives Turned Liberalism into a Tax-Raising, Latte-Drinking, Sushi-Eating, Volvo-Driving, New York Times-Reading, Body-Piercing, Hollywood-Loving, Left-Wing Freak Show which I can’t wait to read (The Way We Talk Now was a good one by [...]

SHAC 7 and the Green Scare

Known as the SHAC 7, a group of (now six) animal rights activists who were arrested earlier this year and are awaiting sentencing have become the topic of much conversation in activist communities. They’re considered terrorists. That’s right, terrorists. For running an anti-HLS website. Here’s another one to give you an idea about HLS if [...]

The Hummer in Iran, American Style

From a Washington Post article today entitled Misreading Tehran.
“So today on one side of a Tehran thoroughfare, a fading wall mural celebrates a Palestinian suicide bomber, while on the other a line of posters advertise HUMMER, a cologne named for the American war wagon.”
There was an accompanying photograph, but I couldn’t find it online. The [...]

writing topics

as i formulate new topics to write on, i’ll be posting them. here are the most current three.
-depictions of female activists in popular culture
(i’ve found no research about this)
this could be a fun article to write. from the simpsons to the constant gardner…
-theorizing a unified media literacy
(which includes media analysis/ownership and media production as well [...]