George Walker Herbert Hoover: Same Old Song and Dance

As finalists in the “Best Animation” category of MoveOn.org “Bush in 30 Seconds” contest, Tom Neely and Greg Saunders have expanded their original web video into a seven minute short feature. The cartoon, “Brother Can You Spare A Job?”, based on the animation of the ’20’s and ’30’s, is...

Blackspot on Nike

According to Adbusters, the biggest problem in producing the first anti-corporate, anti-brand, anti-Nike sneaker was finding the right factory. After a world-wide search, they came up with one in Portugal that, they claim, is unionized, has a perfect safety history, pays fair wages, and offers generous paid holidays, free...

Those Sleazy Days of Summer

Yes, it’s late summer, typically the time when the media likes to spotlight shark attacks as well as salacious show trials. Of course, the Kobe and Michael feasts are fast approaching. (I can’t figure out if Disney will sponsor the CourtTV coverage to play up the Tinker Bell tie-in,...

Walking the Walk

I found this image at the blog American Leftist. There is a larger version with Cheney and Rumsfeld. I haven’t seen anyone apply this “perp walk” idea yet. Perhaps because the administration (with the obvious exception of Cheney) has done such a masterful job dissociating from its M.B.A./C.E.O. roots....

Political Maps: Give me an I! Give me an R! Give me an A! Give me 126 Billion Dollars!

(BAGnewsNotes exclusive: Scrap of paper found next to dumpster outside CIA headquarters, Langley, Virgina) In the final part of it’s report, to be released Thursday, the 9/11 Commission will indicate that there was some cooperation between al Qaeda and an “axis of evil” country in the Middle East, the...

Political Juggling: The “Dump Cheney” Scenario

Personally, I can’t see President Bush dropping Cheney from the ticket. I think Bush is too prideful to take any action that looks like weakness. (I also think he is too opportunistic about future boardroom prospects to turn Cheney into an enemy, or having future business partners worry about...

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Big Up

From time to time, it is said that the rich white men who rule America live “in a bubble.” They must …if the gang that Ali G lined up for a second season of interviews still hasn’t figured out his shtik. This site has clips of two of the...

Political Orbits: the Good Ship Obama

I’ve been wanting to highlight Barack Obama since I read that wonderful piece on him in The New Yorker about a month ago. What was I waiting for? This may sound a little silly, but I’ve been holding out, hoping that his campaign would post a video clip on...

Activists vs. Slaqtivists

It’s funny what will get you mad. I’m not sure how long this link will remain active (because it wouldn’t link gen) but I was really put out by an article (here) in the other morning’s NYTimes Sports Section (or, here, at the Duluth News Tribune). In the article,...

Leading Photos: This Guy’s a Real Vacuum Case

The more of these front page photos I study, the more I come to admire the editorial ingenuity of the NYTimes. Even if they run with the day’s leading shot, they hardly ever use the most stage-managed version. Instead, if they have the choice, they tend to go with...

Political Orbits: He-Man is THE Man

While the social conservatives grumble (or just pretend to grumble) about their absence from prime time, analysts will look back at this summer’s Republican Convention as the point when Arnold made his national breakthrough. Having finessed the California budget crisis by snowing the public and intimidating the legislature (and...

If the Truth be Told

As part of Peru’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, a photographic exhibition has been created to document the violence, murder and forced disappearance of approximately 60,000 Peruvians in the ’80s and ’90s. Temporarily housed in a crumbling mansion in the town of Chorrillos, the exhibition, titled Yuyanapaq (“To Remember”), has...

Pretty Sad

About a week ago, I visited the subject of the Bush attack ad, “Kerry’s Coalition of the Wild-eyed” (see: Jackie Would NEVER Have Let Jack Put Hitler in an Attack Ad!). If you had a chance to view the original Bush ad, you might be interested in this remix...

Bush and Lay: Young and Old Alike

Of course, the right is quick to point out that President Bush’s friendship with Ken Lay is hardly a crime. If you get to see the documentary, The Corporation, however, you will appreciate how, in the overlap of business and government interests, there is a thin line between association...

The Osama Vote

Let the slimefest begin! Apparently, one of the jaded themes that has entered the election narrative is that bin Ladin is supporting Kerry. In this video clip from two days ago, Chris Matthews propagated the idea that al Qaeda was motivated to launch a pre-election attack in order to...

Now You © It

Here’s a nice flash video by Adriana De Barros about coming of age as an artist and, simultaneously, losing one’s innocence about copyrights. (link source: Al of 31)