Media Matters = Useless Government Propaganda
Isaiah's The World Today Just Nuts "Man-on-Man" went up today. And Media Matters posted this useless garbage yesterday.There are many who loathe Media Matters and do so for a number of reasons -- some...
View ArticlePeter Hart and other pigs on the left, that's not your penis showing
Did you hear Lara Logan's gotten "Error of the Year" or some such crap?I bring it up because I am so sick of so many of my peers on the left.You may remember how they savaged Katharine Bigelow for...
View ArticleMs. magazine needs to close shop
Okay, I am a second wave feminist. I am an old woman.In my day, feminism called out violence against women.We are the generation that created the vocabulary for a problem without a name.If you were a...
View ArticleA few thoughts
I will be working with Third this edition. A lot of people may not due to the holiday. The edition will focus on womenI hope you read Ann's "F**k you bitches of Jezebel (NSFW)." I really cannot...
View ArticleLarry Johnson makes a fool of himself
I have linked to Larry Johnson many times before. I have defended him many times.I think those days are gone.I also think he is a homophobe.He will of course deny it. But he wrote "The End of Gay...
View ArticleHow to know what books to skip
Isaiah's The World Today Just Nuts"Under The Tree" went up today.For those of you who celebrate Christmas, Merry Christmas.One thing I do not do is buy books endorsed by The Nation magazine anymore.I...
View ArticleBehind the US attacks on Russia?
Isaiah's The World Today Just Nuts "Not Born In A Manger" went up this yesterday.Yesterday was Christmas.A number of e-mails expressed surprise since I did not blog yesterday.I am Jewish.We do the...
View ArticleThe final new episode of Nikita
As someone who has covered The Client List and other TV shows, I know the worst moment is when they go off the air, The New Adventures of Old Christine? I still miss that show.Tonight, Mike's...
View ArticleJournalism
As expected, John Miller has left CBS News. Cynthia Littleton (Variety) reports:John Miller, the CBS News correspondent behind a heavily criticized “60 Minutes” report on the National Security...
View Article60s alternative music?
Community member Goldie sent me this Spin article on the top alternative albums of the 1960s and wondered what I made of it?First, I hate articles where I have to repeatedly click. You have to in this...
View ArticleChris Pine and other things
"Ruth, is no one posting anymore?"That was an e-mail, a community member in an e-mail panic.I think people were getting into the holiday. Do you know Chris Pine? The actor? He made Rebecca's "10...
View ArticleBenghazi
C.I. just called, offering to guest blog for me.She is so sweet. She heard I was going to write about Benghazi and was afraid, since I had not posted, that I she had stepped on my toes and I had...
View ArticleWhat did Shia LaBoufe do?
Part of being a grandmother your grandkids want to spend time with is being able to talk about things that happen today and not just how it was 'back in the old days.'So my 12-year-old granddaughter...
View ArticleA real shame
Shamus Cooke (CounterPunch) weighs in ObamaCare today:The rats who propped up the broken boat of Obamacare are a collection of liberal and labor groups who frittered away their group’s resources—and...
View ArticleToo much partisanship
Justin Raimondo (Antiwar.com via ICH) explains: Seymour Hersh put it more colorfully: in his view the War Party "overthrew the American government. Took it over. It’s not only that the neocons took it...
View ArticleThe persecuted Sunnis
Hurriyet Daily News reports:Yet, the U.S. is still reluctant about Maliki’s wish list, presented during his visit to Washington in October. Some in the Congress have doubts about Maliki’s close...
View ArticleWhy is Asheligh Banfeld on TV?
This week, Ashleigh Banfeld was suggesting on air that, to get some people to testify, they should be charged with murder.To get them to testify, they should be charged with murder?I do not belong to...
View ArticleAgain on Shia LaBeouf
Shia LaBeouf is "retiring from all public life"? That is what Ace Show Biz reports, Lana e-mailed me the item. And if you go to his Twitter feed, you will see he has Tweeted that.I hope it is not...
View ArticleIraq
Sunday, Isaiah's The World Today Just Nuts"Duty" went I really enjoy that. And I really enjoyed Kat's "Kat's Korner: Limp Bruce" about the latest attempt by Bruce Springsteen to grab dollars without...
View ArticleThe stolen artifacts
The World Jewish Congress:The United States should not return the Iraqi Jewish archive that is currently on loan to the US government to Baghdad, the archive’s chief rescuer urged on Monday.Harold...
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