The Great and Powerful Oz
I had to go to Oz tonight. Mike called about a question with his daughter and we were talking when he said they were going. I said, "Oh, that will be so much fun. I love that movie."Elijah asked me...
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Jonathan Winters
Jonathan Winters has passed away.I do not know really how to explain him.Years after he became one of my favorites to catch, he got a role on the TV show Mork & Mindy. This is in the seventies....
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The Client List
Last night, Isaiah's The World Today Just Nuts "Safety Net Scissorhands" went up. President Barack Obama wants to destroy the F.D.R. legacy. He really is a bastard.The Client List airs on Lifetime. I...
View ArticleConnect The Smugness
Before I started this site, I used to do a "Ruth's Report" at The Common Ills. I would cover radio programs.One that I enjoyed then was KPFK's Connect The Dots With Lila Garrett.I cannot stand her...
View ArticleKerry pressed on Benghazi
This morning, I attended the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Commitee. The Committee Chair is Ed Royce. He is a Republican, if labels matter to you, because Republicans hold the majority in the House....
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Gun coverage
Yesterday, one of my U.S. senators was on The NewsHour (PBS):SEN. RICHARD BLUMENTHAL, D-Conn.: Today was heartbreaking for me, really sad and shocking, but the hardest part of it was to try to explain...
View ArticleTom Cruise
I was surfing and found a piece on StyleBlazer entitled "Once they were stars, now they're all too easy targets." I was surprised by what they wrote. This is on Tom Cruise, for example:Tom Cruise’s...
View ArticleThe Client List and crazy, insane Riley
The Client List airs on Lifetime (first on Sunday nights).They sure are making it easy for me to stop watching. Riley is not only chosen the deadbeat Kyle, she is being rude to Evan.Kyle, for those...
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Hawija is this week's Boston
Xinhua reports:Morethan 50 peoplewerekilledandover 100 otherswoundedinviolentclashesandattacksacrossIraqonTuesday,...
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Look who is celebrating together
Isaiah's The World Today Just Nuts "Talk Is Cheap" went up this morning.Dallas CBS reports that President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama will be celebrating the Bully Boy Bush library,...
View ArticleReuters, wrong again
C.I. filling in for Ruth. Let's talk Iraq elections. Reuters claims:Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's coalition took the lead in eight of the 12 provinces that held provincial elections at the...
View ArticleCan you believe?
I was reading this and shocked. Reuters makes up journalists? Invents them? Michelle Boatley, Thomson Reuters reporter, does not exist. Not like Remington Steele, where Pierce Brosnan comes along...
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The Client List
Isaiah's The World Today Just Nuts "The Bride of Iran" went up last night.I am so glad Isaiah did that comic. Flick is not. Tough. It is a great comic. And Kat's "Kat's Korner: Holly Near, Go Away"...
View ArticleWhat's the aversion to discussing rape?
What is it about Patrick Cockburn? He really seems to have the same problem with women that his brother Alexander Cockburn did. Maybe that is not so surprising? At CounterPunch today, he yet again...
View ArticleDeanna Durbin
Actress in musical films Deanna Durbin has passed away at 91. C.I. wrote about it this morning. BBC notes, "Winston Churchill watched her films before they were released to the general public in the...
View ArticleRenee Montagne sells war
I hope you read C.I.'s "General Renee Montagne leads NPR charge to war on Syria" this morning.It is important, both for documenting how NPR is selling war on Syria and for documenting how the media...
View ArticleWrong on Hagel
Bill Van Auken (WSWS) reports:Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel told a Pentagon press conference Thursday that the US is “rethinking” policy on directly arming the so-called rebels in Syria.Appearing with...
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The Client List
Isaiah's The World Today Just Nuts "Pigs Guarding The Pen" went up last night.Penny Pritzker is a pig."The Client List" airs on Lifetime. This week's episode was a strong one.First off, we finally saw...
View ArticleBenghazi
Please read Betty's "Benghazi" if you have not already. Benghazi was where, September 11, 2012, an attack left four Americans dead: Tyrone Woods, Glen Doherty, Sean Smith and Chris Stevens. Betty...
View ArticleAn order to stand down
Today, Gregory Hicks provided testimony to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. As C.I. notes in the snapshot today, "US House Rep Darrell Issa is the Chair, the witnesses were the...
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