Amusing and Informative, Your Lil' Sister Loves to Get the 'Scoop' on the Mainstream Media and To Present a Variety of Obscure, Under-Reported and Decidedly-More Newsworthy Items From Around The Globe; You'll Also Be Privy To Pieces of My Own Personal Paranormal Phenomena; and Frequently Hear of Things Your Parents, Clergy, Society and Uncle Sam didn't bother to tell you. But, I will...
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The Way This Grrrl Sees It!
Fifty-five colleges and universities - including James Madison University - are under investigation for the way they've (mis)handled allegations of sexual abuse. (Personally, I think that number is misrepresentative of the scope of the problem, inaccurate and extremely low.)
For a humorous - and, maddeningly, accurate - "Guys and Gals College Do's and Don'ts", please check out this brief clip of Jessica Williams and Jordan Klepper from The Daily Show With Jon Stewart...
Check this out: (No, Really... it's funny... and quite revealing. I especially like the open-mouthed, gum-chewing, seat-warmer. And, don't let the starting image turn you off, the picture gets better immediately.) Brought to you from the soon-to-be-legendary (if he isn't already) Max Blumenthal. I just heard about this on Bill Moyer's Journal on PBS. Whatever you think about Bill (if you even think about him), his show definitely unearths some priceless gems. Thanks, Bill. And, Max.... Michael Moore would be proud. Peace. L.
Generation Chickenhawk: the Unauthorized College Republican Convention Tour
On July 13, 2007, I visited Section 60 of Arlington National Cemetery, where the bodies of American soldiers killed in Iraq were freshly interred. Afterwards, I headed across the street to the Sheraton National Hotel, owned by right-wing Korean cult leader Sun Myung-Moon, to meet some of the war's most fervent supporters at the College Republican National Convention.
In conversations with at least twenty College Republicans about the war in Iraq, I listened as they lip-synched discredited cant about "fighting them over there so we don't have to fight them over here." Many of the young GOP cadres I met described the so-called "war on terror" as nothing less than the cause of their time.
Yet when I asked these College Repulicans why they were not participating in this historical cause, they immediately went into contortions. Asthma. Bad knees from playing catcher in high school. "Medical reasons." "It's not for me." These were some of the excuses College Republicans offered for why they could not fight them "over there." Like the current Republican leaders who skipped out on Vietnam, the GOP's next generation would rather cheerlead from the sidelines for the war in Iraq while other, less privileged young men and women fight and die.
Along with videographer Thomas Shomaker, I captured a vivid portrait of the hypocritical mentality of the next generation of Republican leaders. See for yourself...
