First of all – seeing Tom Cruise having fun and turning off the intense-o-meter is a welcoming, funny change. Whether or not the role itself would be half as funny without Cruise, I leave for you to decide. One thing that was decidedly unfunny, though, was the "wild and carazy" love of hip-hop and dancing. […]
Film Review: Tropic Thunder
First of all – seeing Tom Cruise having fun and turning off the intense-o-meter is a welcoming, funny change. Whether or not the role itself would be half as funny without Cruise, I leave for you to decide. One thing that was decidedly unfunny, though, was the “wild and carazy” love of hip-hop and dancing. […]
Why Ron Rosenbaum Really Resents Jeff Jarvis
By his own admission, journalist Ron Rosenbaum "used to like Jeff Jarvis." But on November 11th, in a scathing piece on Slate, Rosenbaum shows he has clearly soured on the new media guru. Accusing Jarvis of "acting like a prophet" in his digital era pronunciations, Rosenbaum angrily denounces Jarvis’ irreverence to traditional journalism. His frustration […]
On Pigs, Churchill, and Sarah Palin
I understand that Sarah Palin, Governor of Alaska, is a pig. I have seen pictures of her – both moving and still – and am not so sure. This is a line of definition that Illinois Senator Barack Obama has drawn for me and for all of us. It is his mark. He has come […]
Warriors’ Ellis Could Be Disciplined for Ankle Injury
Posted to findingDulcinea by Dennis Cummings Monta Ellis, a 22-year-old guard, signed a six-year, $66-million contract in July. The Warriors hoped he would become their go-to scorer after all-star guard Baron Davis signed elsewhere, but he will miss at least three months after tearing his deltoid ligament and suffering a Grade 3 high ankle sprain […]
Bloggers React to ‘A Better Fiji’
Posted by John Liebhardt to Global Voices Online A government-appointed committee in Fiji introduced an 11-point framework to augment the Pacific island nation’s constitution and “rebuild Fiji into a nonracial, culturally vibrant and united, well-governed, truly democratic nation.” The 75-page report, called the “Fiji Draft People’s Charter for Change, Peace & Progress” (.pdf available here) […]
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