G. I. Joe and Transformers were both ’80s television series specifically made to sell their toy lines, a slightly different path from the comics-turned-movies like “X-men,” “Spiderman,” “Hulk” and that ilk.
OK, so you live in a state with a U.S. senator who isn’t sure whether he’ll vote to confirm a controversial nominee to a top spot in the Justice Department. The nominee, Dawn Johnsen, thinks opposing abortion is like supporting slavery.
In February 2008, the Times Free Press ran a news article on the silence from the Hamilton County school system regarding serious incidents in local schools, including rioting at Tyner Academy and youths trespassing with a loaded gun at the Howard School of Academics and Technology. It was two weeks before the Tyner riot was publicly disclosed. The gun incident was kept quiet almost a week.
These artists locked in and cruised, lost in the work and the sweat and the synchronicity of minds and bodies moving in harmony, exchanging information, feeding one another, intuitively, sensually, until finally reaching another plane where time and space feel transcended and we begin to . . .
There was hilarity aplenty when the Media Research Center hosted its annual gala recently and offered its usual scalding critique of the liberal media.
Tennessee and Georgia lawmakers were universal in their outrage over the $165 million in bonuses handed out by bailed-out insurer AIG, but they had different ideas on how to handle the situation.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- OK, so there's something ironic about the fact that Mick Jagger's "Start Me Up" was playing as conservative critics of the liberal media gathered in Washington on Thursday evening for the Media Research Center's annual DisHonors Awards for the most biased journalism of 2008. Mr. Jagger's support of conservative causes is, shall we say, limited.
Sure, the economy’s not so chipper, the AIG guys are soaking us and the conflict in Afghanistan is showing signs of becoming the Forty Years War. But cheer up, Bunky! Sensing our collective national malaise, just this past evening the Entertainment gods have smiled upon us with not one—but two rousing hours of the new advertising-based TNT drama “Trust Me!”
A McClatchy Newspapers column about war begins thus:
“An urgent call to protect nature in the midst of violence and loss of human life may seem naive or misguided.”