politics

I don’t normally do fashion, but I love it when two of my favorite things come together! Michelle Obama wore a Moschino jacket while visiting the Department of Energy for the National Science Bowl. I noticed the jacket from the fourth episode of this season (the fourth, and, likely, last) of Ugly Betty (“The Wiener, [...]

Above: Screengrab from BarackObama.com; Bill Thompson, running for Mayor of New York this week on Nov. 3rd; Benjamin Netanyahu’s 2008 campaign page; Anthony Woods, who lost his campaign for Congressional House district, CA-10; James Perry, running for mayor of New Orleans in 2010. Any that I’m missing? The issue of websites borrowing, um, liberally from [...]

Everyone who follows television is tripping out over the stunning success of HBO’s True Blood, and even I, as a fan, am rather stunned. Consider this: when True Blood premiered last year it garnered 1.44 million viewers, leaving industry watchers to once again proclaim that HBO had lost its mojo. Last week’s episode, in advance [...]

Three new medically-themed shows arrive at just the right cultural moment. [Nurse Jackie (Grade: A-), Royal Pains (Grade: B), HawthoRNe (Grade: C+)] Americans hate journalists and bankers. As a journalist whose best friend is a banker, this sometimes gets under my skin. But it makes perfect sense, and far be it for me to begrudge [...]

In these projects I assume the identity a particular political slant and perform it. RED: Left/Socialist GREEN: Capitalist/Libertarian BLUE: Right/Zealous WHITE: Whatever I feel like. [...]

The Cure for Clintonitis   Photo by justinfeed Quit girding yourself for disappointment, liberals, and wait a little while to judge the new Chief. By Aymar Jean Christian I went to D.C. for the Inauguration because I like controlled mass hysteria. I didn’t go to see anything (I watched it on a giant TV like everyone [...]

I don’t normally write about politics, but I think the outrage at the choice of Rick Warren, who has reached out to Muslims and advocated for Christians to move on climate change and poverty, is ridiculous. Warren is enormously popular among Christians; the left should want Christians in their movement. Stupid Outrage www.splicetoday.com/politics-and-media/rock-warren-was-a-good-pick Aymar Jean [...]