Out of all the anti-New York City things to do, Macy’s quietly announced last week that it had moved the 4th of July fireworks show off the East River to host it on the Hudson. Supposedly this is in honor of Henry Hudson, but really it’s a slap in the face to New York City. [...]
Democrat Al Franken has been certified the winner of the Minnesota U.S. Senate seat by the state supreme court, as expected. Now is the question whether Norm Coleman will continue to hurt his state by continuing this pointless effort to keep his constituents from having two elected representatives. From Politico:
The question now is whether the [...]
Former New Jersey Governor Jim McGreevey, who riveted the nation when he came out as a gay American in 2004, is now the symbol of fallen Governors. When Eliot Spitzer stepped down from the New York governorship in the midst of his own sex scandal, Spitzer and his wife were even charged with copying the [...]
Yesterday I walked over to one of my favorite mini-restaurants, Snack Dragon, to buy a couple of carne asada tacos. The topic of Michael Jackson’s and Farrah Fawcett’s deaths were already on the lips of the two ladies eating rice and beans. We all started talking about it. Suddenly, one of the women said, “And [...]
One of Rush Limbaugh’s big sponsors is was Zicam, and was he ever hopping mad that a product he has relentlessly endorsed might damage his followers’ sense of smell. That is, he was hopping mad at the FDA, claiming that pulling this product was an effort by Democrats to hurt him! Stephen Colbert riffed on [...]
The recent collapse of a residential building in Fort Greene, a neighborhood in New York City, was a stark example of the New York Times heavily employing the use of citizen journalism on its blogs.
It’s difficult for me to consider citizen journalism without thinking of the failure of Wikinews to become anything that has long-term [...]
On Wednesday the 24th, Rebecca and I have been invited to see a piece of rock history: Bebe Buell at the Hiro Ballroom.
Some people focus on the giant-sized names I have shot for the Creative Commons, but the people that linger in my mind are the hundreds of others who are not household names but [...]
If you thought Michael Lucas would land in New York City and stop his conquest of America there, you thought wrong.
The Soviet-born man the New Republic called “Gay Porn’s Neocon Kingpin” will appear in an upcoming episode of ABC’s Ugly Betty.
Will wonders never cease. I first met Lucas after he wrote Wikipedia about issues [...]
The wrangling over the Wikipedia biography of Walter Cronkite and what is apparently his failing health has begun. Wikipedia editors often get this kind of news early, as people rush to update Wikipedia articles the moment they learn something.
Gail Shister at Mediabistro blog TVNewser is responsible for the rumor, quoting unidentified sources inside CBS. The [...]
Here’s a wrong-headed moment moment: the MTV advertisement you see above is a Portuguese safe-sex ad aimed at women. It makes the unsubtle comparison that having unsafe sex is like pointing a gun at your vagina. Powerful!
Today’s media-weary people, adolescents especially, are harder to reach with messages as advertisements saturate our visual world more and [...]
Confused about Obama’s new regulatory proposals for the financial industry that virtually destroyed the global economy? One is a Consumer Protection Agency. John Ydstie, National Public Radio’s economics correspondent, does an excellent job of explaining it all.
This new agency would look at [things like interest-only balloon payment mortgages] and, I guess sort of modeled [...]
When I was thirteen, I found a boy my age in the woods who shot himself in the head. It’s in a little “about me” narrative I wrote a few years ago found on this blog. It used to say his full name, and eventually both his girlfriend at the time of his death and [...]
I wonder how Sherri Goforth of Tennessee feels as the picture of modern “Old South” racism?
What you are looking at in this post is a photo the executive assistant to Tennessee Republican state Senator Diane Black sent out from her government office with the subject “Historical Keepsake Photo”. It shows portraits of the 44 presidents [...]
Last night David Letterman issued an apology to Sarah Palin about his “knocked up” joke that referenced her 18-year-old daughter, Bristol. Here’s the video:
Palin accepted Letterman’s apology:
Of course it’s accepted on behalf of young women, like my daughters, who hope men who “joke” about public displays of sexual exploitation of girls will soon evolve. Letterman [...]
Yesterday at a barbecue I spoke to two intelligent young ladies, one a 13-year-old and the other 14. One of the adults at the gathering told the two girls that I photograph celebrities. They asked me who I have shot, and I said, “Over 500 people.”
Like who? they wanted to know. I told them to [...]
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