Herr Lasica profiles a filmmaker who got stamped under Disney’s heel. The closing quote: “This all comes down to whether you believe culture should be bottom up or a top-down approach imposed by the corporations,” Horowitz says. “As it is…
Month: April 2004
Are contractors mercenaries?
Some of the lefty blogs have started calling the “civilian contractors” in Iraq mercenaries. The idea being: they’re mostly ex-military and they’re in Iraq for the big bucks. Guns for hire, mainly. But my understanding of the term is that…
Monday morning blogroll
Doc Searls links to a great series of posts by a friend who’s gone home to India and many interesting surprises. Doug Fisher warns against getting parenthetical in quotes. Nonsense Verse has a new home. Bonus link: A photo of…
For all you Capital Idea fans
You may not have noticed that Nicole Stockdale has added an Atom feed to her blog. Here’s the URL: http://nstockdale.blogspot.com/atom.xml. Syndication feeds are built into Movable Type via RSS, and available at blogger.com via a new format called Atom (here’s…
Why Dan Neil won a Pulitzer
He’s the L.A. Times car critic who must’ve caused furrowing of brows among the Capital-J Journalism crowd. Who wants to encourage people to think cars might, you know, occupy a place in our culture or anything? I got around to…
Another editor’s blog
John Ettorre, a writer/editor in Cleveland, calls his blog Working With Words. A choice utterance: Drudge is a complete ass, a pathetic journalistic-wannabe, and at times a right-wing thug. Or more precisely, a too-willing boy-toy dupe of lots of right-wing…
For all who disapprove of Wonkette
Amuse yourself by balancing the federal budget. Link via BoingBoing.
Because somebody asked…
… here’s your required dosage of inept criminality.
The unapproved summary…
… of Ms. Rice’s testimony. Lie, lie, distortion, half-truth, pander, manipulation, pseudo-intellectual bombast. Dodge, dodge, feint, lie, dodge, avoid, subject change, lie, slander, pretentious generalization, character assassination, bald-faced lie.
In honor of Good Friday
It’s “The 30-Second Exorcist,” portrayed by bunnies. Thanks to Dan for the link.