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JP Sottile commented on the diary post Handling the Bush Family’s Baggage by JP Sottile.
Isn’t it cool to have so many “most important elections” in just one lifetime?! It’s like the Friday the 13th franchise!
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JP Sottile wrote a new diary post: Handling the Bush Family’s Baggage
cross-posted on Newsvandal.com Nowadays, it’s awfully expensive to get all your baggage onto an airliner. Unless your name is Bush and the plane is Air Force One. In fact, the mainstream media has a long history of bending over backwards to help handle the Bush family’s substantial pile of baggage. Like a team of personal skycaps, they’ve [...]
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JP Sottile commented on the blog post FDL Movie Night: A Place at the Table
Cui Bono? Who are the primary beneficiaries of this situation?
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JP Sottile commented on the blog post FDL Movie Night: A Place at the Table
This is what I was getting at…hunger v nutrition. And those who struggle to afford food may have to rely on a Dollar Menu diet.
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JP Sottile commented on the blog post FDL Movie Night: A Place at the Table
What, if any, is the key difference or key problem of differentiation between the problems of “hunger” and “nutrition”?
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JP Sottile wrote a new diary post: The Military-Industrial Marx Brothers
The great Lisa Derrick of La Figa likes to say that “nomenclature is destiny.” That adage proved true once again, this time in the strange case of the four “best-paid” Congressional beneficiaries of the defense industry’s impressive political slush fund. According to a recent article in AlterNet , four of the six largest recipients of Military-Industrial campaign donations [...]
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JP Sottile commented on the blog post FDL: Live Blogging the Oscars
did he leave early to hit the cash bar at the gawker afterparty?
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JP Sottile commented on the blog post FDL: Live Blogging the Oscars
Tweet of the Oscars:
Wall Street Journal @WSJ
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JP Sottile commented on the blog post Live Blogging the Oscar Red Carpet
sorry Teddy, that was meant to be a response to Lisa @ 25
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JP Sottile commented on the blog post Live Blogging the Oscar Red Carpet
it a giant orgy of celebrity suck-face, media conglomerate cross-promotion and reality programming callowness. the “hosts” their “interviews” seem like mini-tryouts for a new version of Jersey Shore.
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JP Sottile commented on the blog post Live Blogging the Oscar Red Carpet
Morgan intv’ing Murdoch.
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JP Sottile commented on the blog post Live Blogging the Oscar Red Carpet
grabbing my vintage Eastern Airlines air sickness bag for the rest of Piers Morgan’s red carpet “interviews”
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JP Sottile wrote a new diary post: The Foreclosure Crisis is the Biggest Scandal of All
(cross-posted from Newsvandal.com) Language matters. And right now, we are in the midst of an epic word game. The name of this game is “crisis.” First it was the “Financial Crisis.” Now it is the “Foreclosure Crisis.” But the word “crisis” doesn’t even begin to tell the story of what happened, or what continues to happen , in America’s maelstrom [...] -
JP Sottile commented on the diary post In praise of local TV news by danps.
thanks for this, danps! it is true, as the centralized news monopolies move deeper and deeper into infotainment, reality-based programming and cheap to produce blathering about politics, local news of all sorts can and, as you point out, often is filling the gaping hole left behind by the news elites in DC and NY. CNN’s “poop [...]
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JP Sottile wrote a new diary post: Military-Industrial Complexities
The Great Sequester Hoo-Hah is upon us! A quick rundown of stories I collected today reads like a dipstick plunged into the perpetual engine of wealth reallocation, which is exactly what the defense budget is, has been and will be so long as the Two-Party collaboration drapes its political fortunes with the flag. >>There’s gold [...]
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JP Sottile commented on the diary post Is the End Near for the Washington R-word? II by E. F. Beall.
my story is from 2011. the Cleveland Curse story is from last year. and I suspect that it will pop up again as the season opener gets closer. it does every year. see my point to OB re: Cleveland already slowly phasing in a Big C hat. I believe I put a pic of that [...]
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JP Sottile commented on the diary post Is the End Near for the Washington R-word? II by E. F. Beall.
The Curse of Chief Wahoo: Are we paying the price for embracing Americas last acceptable racist symbol?
http://www.clevescene.com/cleveland/the-curse-of-chief-wahoo/Content?oid=2954423and
Braves shelve controversial logo
http://espn.go.com/mlb/spring2013/story/_/id/8937328/atlanta-braves-shelve-cap-controversial-logo -
JP Sottile commented on the diary post Is the End Near for the Washington R-word? II by E. F. Beall.
many in Cleveland believe using the Chief has cursed the Indians, like the goat for the Cubs. re: racism…apparently, opinions vary. i guarantee that you will be hard pressed to find American Indians who think Chief Wahoo is insignificant. all of my research on the topic has yielded a trove of anger and discontent. btw, [...]
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JP Sottile commented on the diary post Is the End Near for the Washington R-word? II by E. F. Beall.
Nah…take ‘em all on. I lived in DC twice. Worked in the media and hung around a lot of Skins fanatics. I went at ‘em. Contentious stuff. BUT…if they can rename the Bullets because DC kept challenging for the title of Murder Capital of America…then this can be dealt with, too. However, baseball season is [...]
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JP Sottile commented on the diary post Is the End Near for the Washington R-word? II by E. F. Beall.
Imagine the outcry over a team called the Blackskins, the Yellowskins or the Brownskins. Much is tolerated as tradition when it comes to American Indians. It is spring training and the Cleveland Indians logo features Chief Wahoo, a vile caricature that would not be accepted for a minute if it depicted another racial group. Look [...]
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