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“Jackrabbit” Bill O’Reilly’s Autobiography: A Hot Steaming Pile Of Banality

Reviewed: “A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity” by Bill O’ Reilly (Broadway, 2008).

In this slight, self-indulgent memoir, Bill O’Reilly tells us how he got so “bold” and “fresh.” A humble man, he attributes his success to his own innate …

Posted on: December 31st, 2008 | Comments (11)

How To Screw Up A War Story: The New York Times At Work

From the moment Georgia launched its invasion against the breakaway region of South Ossetia this past August, sparking a wider war with neighboring Russia, the New York Times’s news coverage depicted Georgia as an innocent victim of Russia’s neo-imperialist evil. …

Posted on: December 22nd, 2008 | Comments (9)

America Needs a New Religion: Let’s Pick a Pantheon!

Now that services have ended at the First National Church of Crawford, Texas, it’s clear America needs a new religion. Not to nitpick, but it could be argued that rule by the most loudly born-again or, as scholars call it, …

Posted on: December 17th, 2008 | Comments (12)

Drugs: Helping our Readers Come Out of the Closet

It seems that after eXile’s 11 long years of celebrating drug use, some of our more skeptical readers still don’t think we’ve been candid enough about our drugs use. Well, it just goes to show that you people aren’t just …

Posted on: December 17th, 2008 | Comments (4)

FILM REVIEW: The Day the Earth Stood Still Makes a Few Bucks

Klaatu has a bad day.

Number One at the box-office over the weekend, The Day the Earth Stood Still is a great study in all the things that can go wrong with a movie. The plot’s all …

Posted on: December 16th, 2008 | Comments (2)

Freddy Gets Fingered: How I Busted The Washington Post’s Op-Ed Page Editor

Over the past few years, the Washington Post’s editorial page has pushed an increasingly hostile line toward Russia, painting complex developments there in Manichaean terms and accusing the Kremlin–and usually Vladimir Putin–of responsibility for just about anything that goes …

Posted on: December 11th, 2008 | Comments (14)

NBC’s Stephen Lasher: Recession Vulture or Future Recession Scapegoat?

Last Friday, television network NBC announced that it was firing 500 people, or 3% of the workforce. Then today, on MSN (as in “MSNBC,” affiliated with NBC), an article appeared in which a cocky NBC employee, Stephen Lasher, brags like Chico Escuela …

Posted on: December 10th, 2008 | Comments (8)

America: Home of the Free & Land of the Armed

It’s 3:45 p.m. in Los Angeles. Outside, the sun is shining, people are walking their dogs. I can hear the laughter of children returning from school … Out here, in the land of sunshine, a few footsteps away from Venice, …

Posted on: December 8th, 2008 | Comments (36)

Why Drug Addiction Isn’t That Bad

The real junk is inside National Geographic

Tomorrow evening, the National Geographic Channel is going to hit cable viewers with a huge dose of drug propaganda cloaked as investigative reporting in a three-part special that will look at Heroin, Meth …

Posted on: December 1st, 2008 | Comments (28)

BOOK REVIEW: Outliers: The Story of Success and Why You’re Not Having Any

Malcolm Gladwell, successful author.

Ever wonder why you’re not rich and/or famous? If you’re an American, of course you have.

Or, if you happen to be one of the lucky few who’ve actually gotten rich and/or famous, your …

Posted on: December 1st, 2008 | Comments (12)

Film Review: Twilight and the Attack of the Vegetarian Vampires

The problem with Twilight isn’t that it’s an embarrassing fantasy for teenage girls—hell, I was a teenage girl myself once, so whatever celluloid dreams get the poor addled kids through seventh grade are okay by me. No, the problem is that Twilight …

Posted on: November 25th, 2008 | Comments (17)

Despite what they say, this sure looks like a stroke to us.

Posted on: November 21st, 2008 | Comments (13)

TypePad Mocks Media Famine

Six Apart, the company behind the popular TypePad blogging platform, just went Marie Antoinette on us all. With all the jobs being cut in the paper industry and increasing numbers of reporters stuck with nothing to do but moan, the company decided …

Posted on: November 19th, 2008 | Comments (14)

FILM RANT: Quantum of Solace, Or Not Getting Any Action

Daniel Craig working on his stance.

The ultimate proof that movies these days are rotten: Quantum of Solace is breaking records at the box office. It’s not the public’s fault; people want to see something move onscreen …

Posted on: November 17th, 2008 | Comments (6)

Ames’ Antiwar.com Interview On The Bullshit War In Georgia

Listen:

Posted on: November 16th, 2008 | Comments (11)