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Huffington Post and right wing blowhards

By ~LS~ On November 16, 2009 · Add Comment · In Politics and tagged Tagged With: Jon Stewart, Michael Moore, News Media, Politics

I do not understand the Huffington Post. The site contains story after story about Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, and Sarah Palin. Sometimes other people are added to the mix — all the usual suspects. To be fair, they add balance with Jon Stewart, Michael Moore, and Arianna herself. On the whole, though, that site is obsessed with right wing bloviation. This obsessive coverage just gives the blowhards more limelight, more attention, more power. It’s like feeding trolls.

Sarah Palin is now promoting her book, which means she’s making the media circuit. Ultimately this translates to more Palin for us to look forward to on HuffPo. They will document every stop she makes on her trail from Oprah to Good Morning Peoria. If she truly is as vapid as the leftwing blogosphere claims, then why the hell do we give her more than two words of acknowlegement? I mean, it’s pathetically [...]

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Insurance

By ~LS~ On June 18, 2007 · 1 Comment · In The Quotidian (yadda yadda) and tagged Tagged With: Louisiana, Michael Moore

I hate insurance companies. Like most people. I’m grateful that I even -have- insurance, but as everyone knows, they are really annoying.

I decided that I needed to see a nutritionist. I found one in Baton Rouge who is also a therapist. Perfect. Just what I need, right? So I called my insurance company and they won’t pay for me to see a nutritionist unless it is for either A. a protein deficience or B. diabetes. The customer service rep said that they definitely won’t fund seeing a nutritionist for weight loss. WTF? That makes no sense.

According to BlueCross/BlueShield, Louisiana ranks 4th in the country for obesity, and obesity related diseases account for nearly half of Louisiana’s state health care budget. If you buy into the medical industrial complex’s war on fat, it makes no sense to me that insurance will pay for fat-related illnesses (high blood pressure, [...]

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Bowling for Va. Tech

By ~LS~ On April 17, 2007 · 1 Comment · In Politics and tagged Tagged With: Michael Moore, Movies, Politics, Pop Culture

Like the rest of the country, I am spending the morning reflecting on and reading about the shootings at Virginia Tech. As one article on Michael Moore’s website puts it, all the usual suspects have lined up along predictable rhetorical lines. Anti-gun control folks say that letting citizens have handguns on the college campus would have enabled students to stop the gunman before he mowed down 32 people. The logic in that boggles me. Gun-control advocates trot out their legislation. Nonetheless, even in the face of all the evidence about gun violence in America, I remain ambivalent about gun control. This is primarily due to a comment my friend, Carolyn D. made after watching Bowling for Columbine. She said something to the effect of if you make all guns illegal, then only the government has guns, and what’s to stop a situation where the government [...]

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Bush’s Hobby

By ~LS~ On August 14, 2004 · Add Comment · In Humor and tagged Tagged With: Bush, D&D, Geek Cartoons, Michael Moore, Political Cartoons

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Farenheit 9/11

By ~LS~ On June 28, 2004 · Add Comment · In Politics, Pop Culture and tagged Tagged With: Bush, Michael Moore, Movies, Politics, War

I thought Michael Moore’s “Farenheit 9/11” was rather brilliant. Although it dragged in some parts, it impressed because of the way that he managed to present cinematically a potetially boring, text-centered issue. Most of what he shows comes from documents that have been in the public domain for some time. He weaves these together in a dramatic blitz of information with his signature humor. There wasn’t much in the film I hadn’t heard about or read about previously but it was touching and hilarious. I mean, shit, we’ve all forgotten the pre-9/11 W. The man who golfed more than he presided. The most hysterical scene was showing W.’s immediate reaction to 9/11. Moore also slowed down pretty much ever facial expression we had of W. so that it looked like he was either incredibly sly, devious, and self-interested or he was incredibly retarded.

It still didn’t convince Steve, [...]

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Michael Moore’s Anti-war Message

By ~LS~ On November 29, 2001 · Add Comment · In Politics and tagged Tagged With: Bush, Michael Moore, Politics, War

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