Mike Daisey, Performance Artist, Hits Providence
Mike Daisey, performance artist and author of 21 Dog Years, his riff on the wacky world of Amazon.com, is coming to Rhode Island. He’ll be performing at The RISD Auditorium on September 30th at 8 pm. Tickets are $18 and are available through the FirstWorksProv website. Here’s a summary about Monopoly! and some reviews from [...]
Burnt Toast to Go with Your Joe (8/31/06)
• BURNT TOAST to Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings for getting on her soapbox yesterday to tout the controversial No Child Left Behind Act, which she—brace yourself, now—compared to Ivory Soap because the law is “99.9 percent pure or something.� However, as reported by AP writer Ben Feller, “her view that the law needs little [...]
It’s a White Thing, You Wouldn’t Understand
Some time ago I decided to do a makeover and change my race.
Burnt Toast to Go with Your Joe (8/30/06)
• BURNT TOAST to Kenneth Y. Tomlinson, chairman of the Broadcasting Board of Governors, the State Department office that oversees foreign broadcasts such as the Voice of America. As reported in today’s New York Times, “State Department investigators have found that [Mr. Tomlinson]…used his office to run a ‘horse racing operation’ and that he improperly [...]
The REAL Moral & Intellectual Confusion
“In this long war…any kind of moral and intellectual confusion about who and what is right or wrong can severely weaken the ability of free societies to persevere.â€? ~~Donald Rumsfeld, 08.29.06 The Secretary of Offense is partially correct. Moral and intellectual confusion—or, more precisely, deficits—can severely weaken a free society. Rather than discouraging dialogue and [...]
Dick Cheney Honors Veterans–Or So He Says
‘Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.’ ~~Edmund Burke On Monday, Vice President Dick Cheney delivered the keynote address at the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) National Convention in Reno, Nevada. Expectably, Mr. Cheney–who is not a veteran, as he ‘had other priorities [...]
America’s Psyche Is Bushed
The above editorial cartoon by M.e. Cohen is presumably intended to parody comments made by President Bush in his press conference last week. When asked whether he was frustrated about the escalating conflict in Iraq—which many view as a civil war—Mr. Bush offered the following response, which pretty much speaks for itself: Frustrated? Sometimes I’m [...]
In Pursuit of the Beast
As the War on Terror nears its fifth anniversary, the casualties mount—none greater perhaps than truth, justice, and decency. Stunned and deeply hurt by a vicious attack on September 11, 2001, America has responded to such with all the grace and good sense of the wounded Ahab in Moby Dick. Helmed by foolhardy and arrogant [...]
Evil Vampire Rises From Grave
Hey kids, here’s a fun test you can do at home. Go to a mirror and look at your skin.
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