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Rooster Deathmatch: John Wayne vs. Jeff Bridges
Posted on August 15, 2011 | No CommentsJeff Bridges was morally unfit to serve in any John Wayne movie precisely because he was as wild and anti-authoritarian as the Ringo Kid, except that he stayed that way.
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Spotify Killed the Record Store
Posted on August 6, 2011 | No CommentsI hate to say it, but I think the arrival of Spotify in the U.S. signals the death knell for indie record stores. For less than 10 bucks a month,... -
God(dess) Bless Rachel Maddow
Posted on August 5, 2011 | 1 CommentI watched part of “The Rachel Maddow Show” Wednesday night as I was running on the treadmill. (Okay, okay, the treadmill is lame, I know. But at 108 degrees outside... -
A Diamond Is Forever: One Woman Questions the Most Successful Ad Slogan of All Time
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From Gender Violence to Gender Democracy: What Will It Take?
Posted on July 26, 2011 | 1 Comment[caption id="attachment_9047" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Helen Zia, activist, author, former editor of Ms. Magazine (San Francisco Sentinel)"]
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Real True Grit
Posted on July 24, 2011 | 2 Comments“Well, there is no beat of a good friend.” –Deputy Marshal Rooster Cogburn, in the novel, True Grit. “He is not my friend.” –Young Mattie Ross, speaking of Rooster Cogburn,... -
Conservative Lies About Human Nature
Posted on June 27, 2011 | 5 CommentsSince World War II, America’s elite policy makers have arranged and re-arranged our political and economic relationships around an empirically false – radically false – understanding of human being and... -
Why I’m calling it *gulp* for Michele Bachmann
Posted on June 14, 2011 | 3 CommentsYep. Monday night belonged to Michele Bachmann. Let’s be clear: If history is any indication, the Republicans are not going to nominate “a maverick” for president. The party has its... -
AC360 digs into the dark world of “reparative therapy” in “The Sissy Boy Experiment”
Posted on June 8, 2011 | No CommentsHow hard is it to love a 5-year-old child unconditionally, or a child of any age for that matter? If you believe God created each of us, how do you... -
Towering Humanity: Turk Pipkin’s Building Hope
Posted on June 3, 2011 | 1 CommentDisabuse any inkling that Building Hope is cinematic broccoli. It’s a majestic and transformative entertainment and this documentary packs more emotional connectedness, stark naked compassion, unyielding gumption, and inspirational heft than a GooGooplex full of Hollywood fiction.