Category: Politics

A Mea Culpa and Indentured Art-itude

A Mea Culpa and Indentured Art-itude

Much ado is being made about the undue suffering of Louis C.K. and Kevin Spacey fans of late. Like MJ and R. Kelly fans before them, and Woody Allen and Roman Polanski fans before them, and apparently Caravaggio fans way before them, they’re grampussing about feeling unfairly wedged between the moral dilemma of Art versus …

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Thoughts and Prayers and Guns

Thoughts and Prayers and Guns

Once again, a comedian has diagnosed one of our society’s diseases more masterfully than our politicians. While our overpaid elected officials stand solemnly before flags and cameras and issue invective about not politicizing tragedy and “disrespecting the victims’ families” by making the aftermath of a mass shooting about the gun control debate, Australian comedian Jim …

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Beware the Elderly Veteran Herrings

Beware the Elderly Veteran Herrings

You can almost hear the red herrings flapping as George Bush Sr.’s PR team scrambles to slap away accusations of sexual harassment for instances of – you guessed it – sexual harassment. The spin team is flinging out explanations like little kids with a loose grip flying off a spinning merry-go-round. I don’t mean for …

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