Media
Normalizing Deviance: TV Show on vampires is violent, vulgar, explicit – and aimed at kids
From the UK Daily Mail… Any parent with a teenager will be painfully aware that for impressionable young TV viewers, there’s nothing sexier than a vampire – and it’s got nothing to do with Halloween. Channel 4’s latest attempt to seduce us with a mixture of swearing and sex comes in the form of True Blood,... »
Smoking Gun on Roman Polanski: Uncovering the “creepiness of fugitive director”
Smoking Gun has made available the… 1977 grand jury testimony of the 13-year-old California girl with whom the director had sex after plying her with Champagne and a Quaalude at the Los Angeles home of Jack Nicholson. Polanski, now 74, fled the U.S. for Europe before he could be sentenced for the sex crime and... »
The Polanski Thing
While demonstrators chide Switzerland for “philistine collusion” in the Roman Polanski US extradition case, some US bloggers wonder at the tendentious hypocrisy of the Left as evidenced by the lack of criticism from women’s groups, and the unstinting support of Polanski from the Hollywood/cultural elite. From Bruce McQuain: Got that? He raped a child. He plead... »
Sex pistol ice-cream brand boasts viagra-like effects
A new U.K. ice-cream brand called Icecreamists is going all out with a sex-themed campaign, including a supposedly libido-boosting ice-cream cocktail called The Sex Pistol and various images of naked women being squirted, Oozinator-like, with vanilla. »
Brangelina takes personal responsibility to deconstruct marriage
The Inglourious Basterds actor Brad Pitt said he’ll marry his soul mate Jolie when “it’s legal for everyone else”, not when he feels pressured into it by family groups or religious types. “I resent people telling others how to live. Just the other night, I heard this TV reverend say that Angelina and I were... »
Spinning the news for Obama: This isn’t bias. It’s malpractice.
CNN Creates Misleading Headlines to Save Obama’s Credibility. »
Anti-Dad bias: Why is the father always the villain on American TV?
Lifetime TV, a network known for its movies about women being endangered by men, has sunk to a new low – a reality program called “Deadbeat Dads.” »
Murdoch: free content model a failure
Speaking on a conference call as News Corporation announced a 47 percent slide in quarterly profits to $755 million, Murdoch said the current free access business model favored by most content providers was flawed. »
Sirius XM Prepares for Possible Bankruptcy
A bankruptcy would make Sirius XM one of the largest casualties of the credit squeeze. With over $5 billion in assets, it would be the second-largest Chapter 11 filing so far this year, according to Capital IQ. The filing by Smurfit-Stone, with assets of $7 billion, has been the year’s biggest to date. »
Is Google Torrent Search the next Pirate Bay?
Forbes points out that it’s a dangerous precedent. Google is actually more efficient at finding working torrents than some of the bigger torrent tracking sites, like Mininova. »
Wither Christianity?
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy I came across this MSNBC Harball video debate between Christopher Hitchens and Ken Blackwell on the decline of religious faith in America. To my way of thinking, this “debate” was a staged, asymmetric mismatch between distinctly unequal participants. Whatever you may think of... »
Catholic League Calls Out NYT Photo Bias
February 26, 2009 Photo Politics In the “A” section of today’s New York Times, there is a huge photo—approximately a quarter page in size—of a priest giving ashes to a woman on Ash Wednesday. The photo, shot from above, shows no one in the church but the two of them. The caption below says, “The Rev.... »
CNBC: Introducing ‘Ganjanomics’
“To heck with the pharmaceuticals, what the market needs now is medical marijuana – we need a bong break, the whole country needs a bong break.” »
Man-Made Global Warming Hypothesis is Wrong
Expert Peer Reviewer for the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Richard S. Courtney writes about the non-scientific nonsense of climate politics. »
Virgin Atlantic accused of sexism over anniversary advert
“The general crux of the complaints was that the ad was offensive because it was sexist and presented a stereotypical view of gender roles.” –Advertising Standards Authority (UK). »
Porn clip airs during Super Bowl for viewers in Arizona
The clip showed a woman unzipping a man’s trousers, followed by a graphic act between the two. »
Violence Against Men, Hah, Hah, Hah…
“I can laugh at a hell of a lot, but I find this chillingly, nauseatingly awful. In fact, I don’t think I’ve ever felt so sick seeing a commercial, and (of course) I’m not talking about the sexy part, but the ending. Here it is, a commercial for Agent Provocateur lingerie” »
Dallas man files Texas’ 1st same-sex divorce case
“I can’t imagine a conservative state like Texas not being joyfully willing to stamp their approval on that,” said J.B., one of the two men seeking marital dissolution “I think we… should be allowed the same dignity and respect as any two people who have irreconcilable differences.” »
You Tube banned video’s, is it censorship?
Exposing Google’s transparent bias »
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