Blogs: Vision Thing

I may simply be reading too much into things again, but part of me thinks it wasn’t a coincidence that I noticed Jenny Lawson is hawking mental-health ribbons on the very same day I heard the Black Sabbath reunion album. Lawson, the self-christened Bloggess and author of the screamingly funny Let’s Pretend This Never Happened,...
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Like all Americans, I had a choice this weekend as to how I was going to exorcise my lingering socioeconomic malaise. And like most Americans, I opted for “slaughter of the innocent” over “creative retraining.” At this point, it looks as if the weekend box office will be won by The Purge, the “speculative thriller”...
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Somebody help me with this, because I’m a little confused: Are Rutgers players still faggots, or are they now just whores? These days, that school’s athletic department is really The Gang That Couldn’t Motivate Straight. If the allegations against her are true, their new athletic director, Julie Hermann, has a history of player abuse...
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A few years ago, I went to one of those MoveOn house parties where the featured entertainment was a screening of Robert Greenwald’s documentary Outfoxed. A bunch of us Orlando-area libs sat and watched in horrified fascination as Greenwald laid out the way in which the Fox News Channel had established itself as a disinformation...
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At the risk of sounding like a lefty cliché, I love me a good boycott. I love it when progressive groups boycott a supermarket chain over the exploitation of its produce growers. I love it when women’s groups boycott businesses that advertise on misogynist hate radio. And I even love it when fundamentalist Christians...
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The George W. Bush Library opens tomorrow. And there’s actually more to the story than the chance for another joke about oxymorons. Last Saturday’s New York Times included a sneak preview of the library (full name: The George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum) that offered some interesting tidbits about the place. For one thing,...
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You know the unemployment crisis is ongoing when we can’t even be sure there’s a job for Superman. The big guy turned 75 this week, just two days after the world saw the final trailer for his upcoming, make-or-break cinematic reboot, Man of Steel. And it isn’t only Time Warner that’s wondering if that world...
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She may not have planned it this way, but Ashley Judd has just proven that there are indeed still meaty roles for actresses. You know, roles like “The Forgotten Woman.” And “The Basket Case.” For about five minutes this week, the big news story was the smear campaign Mitch McConnell intended to wage against...
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Some fields die a little bit every time one of their avatars passes away. Rock and roll, for example, lumbers closer to extinction whenever another of its stars of the ’50s, ’60s or ’70s leaves this mortal plane (increasingly, of natural causes). For 20 or so years now, that genre has simply failed to...
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I’m sure I’m not the only one to have noticed how wickedly appropriate it is for Lincoln to come out on DVD and Blu-ray the same day the Supreme Court considers Proposition 8. The irony could be grasped quite easily at The Howard University School of Law, whose amicus brief against Prop 8 pointed out...
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