I want to like “Conviction” It is, after all, based on a real life story about the power of love triumphing over the flawed justice system. And I admire the filmmakers who navigated the increasingly onerous Hollywood financial matrix to actually get that story up on the screen. But the film doesn’t live up to [...]
Americans are going to the polls next week, and this election cycle was long on negative adds, personal attacks and plain stupidity while short on real debates, between the candidates and in the media, on most key policy issues. Lowest common denominator politics is what truly characterized this political cycle. Today, comedian Jon Stewart is [...]
By Kit Kimberly As Halloween approaches, images of kids in costume, of Linus waiting for his Great Pumpkin, of ghosts and ghouls, the street decorations and signs of autumn fill the pop culture consciousness—at least in the USA and some other Euro-based cultures. In the US this year, All Hallows also falls on the eve [...]
What’s scarier than opening your door to Coultergeist on Halloween? A low voter turn-out that ushers in a Republican-controlled Congress. Help quash the so-called “enthusiasm gap:” rally your friends, neighbors, colleagues. We all heard their crazy, retro roar. Now it’s time to shut the door on the loco, low-info GOP Tea Bag ladies like O’Donnell, [...]
A historical chronology of the changes in policies by the Democratic party since they got into power 20 months ago.
