Obama’s speech yesterday addressing race and the manufactured Jeremiah Wright controversy was brilliant and moving. Whether you agree with that assessment or see him as a crafty politician giving another pretty speech, it is notable for the fact that he actually dared to speak to the voters about a difficult issue as if they were […]
Liberal columnist and two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Anthony Lewis, will be speaking Wednesday, March 19th, at the Roger Williams University School of Law. Following the lecture, Mr. Lewis will sign copies of his books, including Freedom For the Thought We Hate. (Turns out the First Amendment was designed for guys like Ralph Papitto.
In the Washington Post, the dumbest woman alive argues that all women are dimwits, using her own complete stupidity to prove the point. I wish I could be angry about this, but mostly I find it hilarious. Useless anecdotes about Grey’s Anatomy and romance novels! Refutable science about the human brain! This bitch is crazy!
No other event in the American sporting scene quite captures the essence of sports like the NBA All-Star game. Where else could you find flashy rich white dudes from New Jersey bobbing their heads to Mary J. Blige? Where else could you find the amazing confluence of corporate corporate glad-handing and palm-greasing and other innuendo
First the striking writers brought us the glory of labor struggle-themed youtube videos and now the United Autoworkers (UAW) have picked up where they left off, launching a new folksy tv ad campaign and ancillary website telling members’ stories to educate the public that unions aren’t all about strikes and laziness. The campaign, with the
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Last Friday Scottish-born late-night talk show host Craig Ferguson became an American citizen, thereby removing the final impediment to our happy future together. But alas, he announced last night on his show that he has been tapped for that insidious enemy of American democracy, the White House Correspondents’ Dinner!!! The last of this species should
NYTimes still likes us: Selling housewares, jewelry, fashion accessories, books and other gifts, the shop carries the work of RISD (pronounced RIZZ-dee) alumni and faculty And word has trickled in that next Thursday’s Today Show will have some sort of piece on Providence, including a segment featuring Young Voices and Mayor Cicilline. Also, lipstick is
The inside scoop from an anonymous D.C. tipster: The two men who interrupted Hillary Clinton’s speech in NH on Monday, January 7th with shouts of “Iron my shirt!” were, as many of us have suspected, planted by H-bomb and her staffers. Thanks, Hill, for simultaneously accusing your opponents of sexism while organizing your stooges to
The AP and Drudge both have the story now, which means everybody knows: PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) – A tech company with ties to a school district plans to test a tracking system by putting computer chips on grade-schoolers’ backpacks, an experiment the ACLU ripped Monday as invasive and unnecessary. The pilot program set to start
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Please join us as we celebrate the season, our friends, the spirit of giving, and more importantly our first three months online. Has it been that long? Seems like two. Rest assured there will be no local celebrities appearing at this party. And, as previously mentioned, this is a dress-to-impress type party so wear your
Former Vice President Al Gore and wife Tipper heroically took public transportation to the Nobel ceremony in Oslo, snubbing the gas-obliterating, planet-killing motorcade that all the other brainiacs had no problem taking, because they hate Earth. If he really wanted to impress people, he’d have ridden a bike, and worn all those tight neon pants,
Yep. I’m as surprised as you are about this, but they just webbed an article about Norwegian metal phenomenon Enslaved’s recent tour. I should be able to read metal coverage like this in major national newspapers everyday: Enslaved went from being called “black metal” to being called “Viking metal” to being called “progressive metal,” though
The Associated Press has a legitimately scathing story, “R.I. Grapples With Faulty Teen Jail Bill.” It’s right on the money. George is one of about 40 teenagers who have been jailed in the state prison under a new law that treats 17-year-olds as adults in the court system. Billed as a way to save
From the International Herald Tribune comes news of a sting that resulted in over 120 arrests including a five-man steroid ring in Connecticut.
Here’s a roundup of headlines you could be ignoring on other sites. Iran doesn’t have the gays. NY Attorney General subpoenas Facebook SNL favorite Maya Rudolph will not be returning for fall season. Geek heaven: Halo 3 debuts
Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) will deliver a major policy speech today in Clinton, Iowa. Here is an excerpt of the speech. (HuffPo)
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