Nice girls don't wear five-inch heels. Or at least- they didn't. Lately, the same skyscraper shoes you would find in the red light district have been given a spit and polish by the fashion cognoscenti.
The platform silhouette that's been gaining ground...
Patricia Handschiegel | Posted September 8, 2008 | Media
Imagine if broadcast television and radio audiences had to almost blindly seek out shows and stations upon turning on their devices. Rather than finding things in a neat, orderly fashion - with plenty of guides to help them - they instead had to haphazardly locate it themselves. Think about how...
Tom Gregory | Posted September 8, 2008 | Politics
America--where dreams soar, lives flourish, and today's work strives to make a better tomorrow.
Freedom, democracy, and equality have always been our goal; our system of check and balances has served us well. Throughout history we've...
Jeremy Jacquot | Posted September 8, 2008 | Green
It's hard to pinpoint the precise moment when (what was left of) McCain's environmental bona fides hit the skids, but, if I had to pick, I would say it was right around the time his running mate, Sarah Palin, officially accepted the vice-presidential nomination. (Or was it when McCain boasted...
Ah, Remember the DNC? Before Hurricane Palin, before the GOP knives were drawn in Minneapolis, there were those halcyon days back in Denver when politics were about ideas and the future and people actually believed in things. If anyone wants to be reminded of the genuine efforts of someone who...
Andy Borowitz | Posted September 8, 2008 | Politics
Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, who famously compared herself to a pitbull in her vice-presidential acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention, appears to have antagonized a key voting bloc in the upcoming election, the nation's pitbull owners.
While Gov. Palin's assertion that the only difference between a hockey mom and...
Billy Kimball | Posted September 8, 2008 | Politics
Two Tuesdays past, when Hillary Clinton took the stage at the Democratic Convention in Denver in her Day-Glo pantsuit looking for all the world like a human highway cone, my immediate reaction was, "Is she here to speak or is she here to make balloon animals?" At first blush, this...
Naomi Foner | Posted September 7, 2008 | Politics
We're talking to ourselves.
And we're not saying anything that's going to help win this election.
Everyone who cares knows that Sara Palin is a born again, right wing Republican. That she's a right to life, antigay, anti global warming, book banning kind of gal.
No...
Shahed Amanullah | Posted September 7, 2008 | Politics
If you listened closely during the various speeches at the RNC convention, you'll notice that the times when the crowd was most animated was when Republican rage was focused on what Sen. John McCain calls the "trancendent challenge of our time: the threat of radical Islamic terrorism." Various speakers through...
Vickie Karp | Posted September 7, 2008 | Entertainment
"Columbia is full of beauty queens," says Columbian soap opera star Laisa, "We have beauty pageants for everything. Miss Yuca. Miss Potato. Miss Jelly. The only one we don't have is Miss Cocaine, thank God."
You can meet Laisa, her co-judges, the denizens of cell blocks one through nine, some...
Daniel Cubias | Posted September 7, 2008 | Politics
Forgive me for being a bit tardy on this news item, as well as for straying -- initially at least -- from my professed subject matter.
But I've been thinking a lot lately about Bristol Palin, who is, as you know, the Republican VP candidate's poor knocked-up teenage daughter.
Religious...
Howie Klein | Posted September 7, 2008 | Politics
Not all artists get angry when political figures appropriate their music for campaigns. Many people are aware how furious the Wilson sisters are about how McCain pirated the classic Heart song, "Barracuda," to further the mythologizing of right-wing extremist Sarah Palin. Meanwhile, though, every other songwriter in the world...
Janet Ritz | Posted September 7, 2008 | Politics
John McCain's attempted co-opt of the Obama campaign's change message avoids the fact that McCain has surrounded himself with a campaign staff of top Washington Republican lobbyists:
When McCain huddled with his closest advisers at his rustic Arizona cabin last weekend to map out his presidential campaign, virtually every...
Joel Schwartzberg | Posted September 7, 2008 | Media
Wheel of Fortune, the longest-running syndicated game show in American television history, is celebrating a special anniversary this month -- one quarter-century of syndication. You may not be breaking out the party hats, but this milestone makes me think of my own "Wheel World" experience as a contestant --...
Benjamin R. Barber | Posted September 7, 2008 | Politics
It seems forever since the Democrats completed their triumphant Convention in Denver with its Obama/Biden/Clinton/Kennedy unity ticket and its intoxicating sense of take-it-to-the-finish line momentum. What happened? Not Sarah Palin. How could a small-time Alaska mayor and first term Governor derail the Obama freight train? No it was not Sarah...
Mia Farrow | Posted September 7, 2008 | Politics
By Mia Farrow and Eric Reeves
At 6 a.m. on the morning of Aug. 25, Kalma camp, home to 90,000 displaced Darfuris, was surrounded by Sudanese government forces. By 7 a.m., 60 heavily armed military vehicles had entered the camp, shooting and setting straw huts ablaze. Terrified civilians -- who...
Steve Ralls | Posted September 7, 2008 | Politics
Alaska Governor Sarah Palin has made history as the first mother to be on the Republican presidential ticket, and she has the potential to bring a new perspective on issues that impact America's children to Washington and the White House. Indeed, since her introduction to the nation last week, Governor...
Johann Hari | Posted September 7, 2008 | Entertainment
I have a confession to make. I love not one despised style of music, but two: Heavy Metal, and Country and Western. As they scroll down my i-Pod, my friends weep - and retch. And it gets worse: I believe these eruptions of noise offer a political parable. Really: set...
Jared Bernstein | Posted September 7, 2008 | Politics
Last week in this space I applauded the fact that a few important shards of reality broke through the predictable pageantry of the Democratic National Convention. This week, it is hard not to boo the truly fantastical specter of the RNC, where reality was banished from the hall.
...Kirk Snyder | Posted September 7, 2008 | Media
Sarah Palin's absence from real press conferences and unscripted political interviews should be a red flag to any thinking person that she is completely unqualified to be running for Vice President of the United States. From Kay Bailey Hutchison to Jon Kyl, the Republican emissaries are breathlessly telling the American...
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. — Barack Obama made his first direct criticism of Republican vice...
A visibly upset Keith Olbermann apologized to viewers Thursday...
A John McCain campaign aide tells Jay Carney that she sees no reason why Sarah Palin should have to...
I thought McCain was the next Bush. I said so, like countless others, on this...
On July 20, 2008, the pastor of...
Sarah Palin's churches are actively involved in a...
On Sunday, McClatchy Newspapers published a story on Sen. John McCain's oft-discussed temper, detailing...
Oprah Winfrey, who made the first political endorsement of her life this year in...
As Cindy McCain came under criticism for wearing an outfit that some estimate was...
This campaign season, Republicans have been using a lot of songs from artists...
WASHINGTON — The government is expected to take over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac as...
PROVIDENCIALES, Turks and Caicos — Hurricane Ike slammed into the Turks and Caicos on Saturday as...
First, read this list of relationship tips below. When you get to the bottom, I...
Kira Craft | Posted September 8, 2008 | Style