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Reality TV Hits a New Sexist Low With NBC's Playboy Show
Tweet Share on Facebook May 31, 2011 Comment (7)So-called reality TV is bad enough. But NBC wants to take us a step further—make that, a step backward—with its retro-reality show scheduled to debut this fall.
Here’s how the network describes the show on its website: "An American icon is born. A provocative drama about a time and place in which a visionary created an empire, and an icon changed American culture."
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Ratko Mladic Capture a Huge Relief for People of the Balkans
Tweet Share on Facebook May 26, 2011 Comment (4)It seemed, in our instant-gratification, rapid-response world, that it took forever (actually a little under a decade) to finally get Osama bin Laden, whose death hopefully brings some closure to the families of the victims of the September 11 attacks.
Imagine, then, how it must be today for those victimized by Ratko Mladic.
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Americans Don't Understand the Debt Limit Debate
Tweet Share on Facebook May 25, 2011 Comment (11)You have to hand it to the American public, and yes, even to elected officials, for making the national debt a top-line issue in the national dialogue. It’s become increasingly difficult, in an era of Lindsay Lohan travails and royal weddings, to get people to focus on something as deadly serious and unexciting as the debt.
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Pawlenty's Tough Ethanol Talk Could be Good for Primary Process
Tweet Share on Facebook May 24, 2011 Comment (8)Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty may be the craziest candidate to run for president in some time. Or, he may just be the bravest.
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Don't Judge Newt Gingrich for His ABBA Ring Tone
Tweet Share on Facebook May 23, 2011 Comment (11)Republicans might still be mad at Newt Gingrich for some critical talk about Rep. Paul Ryan’s plans for Medicare (if you call "right-wing social engineering" critical talk). And surely there are Democrats still fuming at things Gingrich did as a congressman, not the least of which was taking control of the chamber away from Democrats for the first time in 40 years and becoming speaker. And then there are those moralists who have trouble with Gingrich’s ethical transgressions while he was in the House, or even with his affair with a staffer that occurred while he was lambasting former President Clinton for engaging in sexual activity with a White House intern.
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LA Times Was Right Not to Publish Woman's Name in Schwarzenegger Scandal
Tweet Share on Facebook May 19, 2011 Comment (10)It was perhaps inevitable that someone, somewhere, would track down the name--or a name, anyway--in the episode involving former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and the child he fathered outside his marriage a decade ago. And that’s all the more reason to commend the Los Angeles Times for doing the right thing, and sticking to its initial decision.
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Why Don't Men Like Schwarzenegger, John Edwards Use Condoms?
Tweet Share on Facebook May 18, 2011 Comment (15)The revelation that former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger fathered a child a decade ago with a woman who was not his wife—a disclosure that comes just a couple of years after we learned that onetime Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards had done the same thing—begs an important question:
Exactly what century are we in?
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How the Media's Getting the Strauss-Kahn, Ensign Scandals Wrong
Tweet Share on Facebook May 17, 2011 Comment (11)Now that former Sen. John Ensign has taken a sort of early retirement, and French politician Dominique Strauss-Kahn is in danger of being forced into retirement from the IMF, it is time that the media retire a few words and concepts of their own.
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Paul Ryan's Medicare Plan at Issue in NY Special Election
Tweet Share on Facebook May 16, 2011 Comment (9)Even in our era of crazy-expensive political campaigns, one has to wonder: Why on earth is so much money being dumped into the special election in western New York to replace former GOP Rep. Chris Lee?
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Stop Fighting Over Who Gets Credit for Killing bin Laden
Tweet Share on Facebook May 12, 2011 Comment (3)The horrific attacks of 9/11 brought together, at least for a time, a fragmented and ideologically divided nation. One would think that the discovery and killing of the terrorist leader responsible for it would have the same effect.
