tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50142442011-04-21T15:38:28.265-04:00voxpopgirlThis Girl's Voicevoxpopgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387045101063895263noreply@blogger.comBlogger1481100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5014244.post-56178885193444919272007-11-23T18:28:00.000-05:002007-11-23T20:40:12.998-05:00I Support the Writers Guild of AmericaIt's simple: Without writers, actors have no lines. Without writers, networks and studios have no shows and no movies. Without the content that writers create, there is no Hollywood. Period.So, why are writers fighting the big 6 studios? A Simple Explainer from the WGA:Why We FightThe writers of The Office speak out from the picket lines in L.A.: The Officevoxpopgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387045101063895263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5014244.post-51665116908464407852007-08-24T19:22:00.000-04:002007-08-24T19:49:17.425-04:00Ted Nugent Threatens Hillary Clinton + Barack ObamaApparently, about a week ago at one of Ted Nugent's concerts, someone recorded cellphone footage of Nugent wielding and waving what appeared to be machine guns in each hand on stage while threatening Democratic Presidential Candidates' Sen. Barack Obama & Sen. Hillary Clinton:Nugent To Obama:"I was in Chicago last week - I was in Chicago and I voxpopgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387045101063895263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5014244.post-1163180031444313282006-11-10T12:15:00.000-05:002006-11-10T12:38:17.813-05:00PREDICTIONSometime within the next year and a half, Dick Cheney will be replaced.The White House cover story will be that Cheney is stepping down because of poor health (those multiple heart attacks will serve a higher purpose for the GOP's own survival -- unless of course, Cheney is replaced because he actually dies).Yesterday, Cheney woke up with the proverbial dead horses' head in his bed -- voxpopgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387045101063895263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5014244.post-1146957219904864682006-05-06T18:34:00.000-04:002006-05-09T11:42:09.546-04:00Thank you, Helen ThomasHelen Thomas is a national American treasure. She has served American citizens as a White House corresondent through 4 decades covering the making and unmaking of 9 American Presidents, beginning with President John F. Kennedy.Shortly after a White House press conference with Bush where she asked him directly, the real reason why he took the country to war in Iraq, she wasvoxpopgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387045101063895263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5014244.post-1141461437016622542006-03-04T02:57:00.000-05:002006-03-04T06:36:12.723-05:00tick tock, babyAs a musician who appreciates a great pop melody and has focused most of my career on expressing myself in the alternative genre, I draw the line here:BBC NEWS: First Notes For 639-year CompositionThe first notes in the longest and slowest piece of music in history, designed to go on for 639 years, are being played on a German church organ on Wednesday.The three notes, which will voxpopgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387045101063895263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5014244.post-1140559065129961342006-02-21T16:44:00.000-05:002006-02-21T17:04:12.626-05:00One Way Ticket to DarfurThis is a laugh and a half...It seems the king of gimmicks and ridicule just got a great big good one thrown right back in his face.E&P reports:NEW YORK In a postscript to his regular New York Times column on Tuesday, Nicholas Kristof reveals that he has raised almost three-quarters of a million dollars from readers to send Fox News host Bill O'Reilly to troubled voxpopgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387045101063895263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5014244.post-1137432641716495402006-01-16T12:23:00.000-05:002006-01-19T17:51:13.306-05:00Million Dollar BabyOn Vincent Gallo's website Merchandise page, among other things for sale besides his "Vincent Gallo Childhood Nixon campaign pin & autographed box" ($250) and "Vincent Gallo Limited Edition Jew'ls: Diamond Heart Pendant" ($10,000), he is also making available, for the asking price of $1,000.000: "Vincent Gallo's Sperm".His advertisement features a Black & White drawing (in voxpopgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387045101063895263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5014244.post-1136982256146657672006-01-11T06:56:00.000-05:002007-01-21T03:04:19.481-05:00When The President Talks To GodA performance by Bright Eyes on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.American readers can download a free copy of the song from the U.S. iTunes Music Store.Canadians can purchase the Import CD "The First Day of My Life" at the Canadian Amazon.com which contains the song. When the President Talks To GodWhen the president talks to GodAre the conversations brief or long?voxpopgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387045101063895263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5014244.post-1116229571111270562005-05-16T01:34:00.000-04:002005-06-01T23:47:53.370-04:00azerbic: Toronto Star Launches Blog with Antonia ZerbisiasI haven't posted here at voxpopgirl for over 4 months because I've been happily waist-deep in the work I love, however, the following news is well worth blogging about.At long last, Toronto Star columnist and media guru Antonia Zerbisias has her own blog, aptly named azerbic.Canada's highest circulation newspaper has chosen to enter the voxpopgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387045101063895263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5014244.post-1105580168381251332005-01-12T20:28:00.000-05:002005-01-12T20:53:16.263-05:00A Man-Made Tsunami
Monty Python alumn Terry Jones is right:
Of course it's wonderful to see the human race rallying to the aid of disaster victims, but it's the inconsistency that has me foxed. Nobody is making this sort of fuss about all the people killed in Iraq, and yet it's a human catastrophe of comparable dimensions.
According to the only scientific estimate attempted, Iraqi deaths voxpopgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387045101063895263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5014244.post-1099698834820458642004-11-05T18:53:00.000-05:002006-03-07T04:21:07.273-05:00Animal Farm.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Once the minority of [the] House and Senate are comfortable in their minority status, they will have no problem socializing with the Republicans. Any farmer will tell you that certain animals run around and voxpopgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387045101063895263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5014244.post-1099634005324246542004-11-05T01:53:00.000-05:002004-11-05T19:17:36.053-05:00Two Nations -- Under God -- Divisible
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Only in America could someone win by less than than 1 percent and say that he had a mandate from the country.
-- Andrew Vachss, Nov. 4/04 Salon.com____________________________
voxpopgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387045101063895263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5014244.post-1086252316237576072004-06-03T04:45:00.000-04:002004-06-03T06:58:28.146-04:00Maher's Attacks
Bill Maher, comedian, host of HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher", and astute observer of all things ironic, was last night's guest for the full hour on Larry King Live.
As usual, he hit a couple of home runs answering viewer call-in questions:
CALLER: A question for Bill. Bill, it's been reported that Saddam Hussein's handgun that was taken off of him when he crawled outvoxpopgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387045101063895263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5014244.post-1085556517975219132004-05-26T02:30:00.000-04:002004-09-04T14:53:49.796-04:00Summer Slowdown
Some voxpopgirl readers have probably noticed that it's been a little dormant around here lately; i'm as energized and interested as ever in politics, however, i'm even more energized and interested in what i do for a living and have been focusing on just that for the last month.
What with an important American election this November and an even more important one for me -- a voxpopgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387045101063895263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5014244.post-1082607878913070232004-04-22T00:24:00.000-04:002006-03-26T05:58:15.410-05:00Ignore at Your Own Peril"While choking on some alcohol...... Chance tries to say "Chance the gardener". Eve mistakenly interprets this as 'Chauncy Gardener'. Suddenly, Chance has a full name.His only contact with the outside world has been through the countless television sets located all around the house. This long term isolation might account for his rather low level of intelligence, about voxpopgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387045101063895263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5014244.post-1081320710686610932004-04-07T02:47:00.000-04:002004-04-07T12:09:13.013-04:00Show Us The Jobs
Check out the new and very effective tv ad [RealVideo] launched by the AFL-CIO as part of an 18-city "Show Us The Jobs" Tour that's taking place across the U.S. starting today.
The ad is made up of a series of back and forth cuts between Bush's "jobs" rhetoric from his State of the Union address against three real life laid off people giving actual testimonials which show that voxpopgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387045101063895263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5014244.post-1080220001960122592004-03-25T08:03:00.000-05:002004-03-25T08:12:04.750-05:00"So Help Me God"
“I welcome these Hearings because of the opportunity they provide to the American people to better understand why the tragedy of 9/11 happened and what we must do to prevent a re-occurence.
I also welcome the hearings because it is finally a forum where I can apologize to the loved ones and the victims of 9/11.
(Turning around to acknowledge the surviving family’s of the 9/11 voxpopgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387045101063895263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5014244.post-1080130335299758952004-03-24T07:11:00.000-05:002004-04-22T08:06:27.810-04:00Reclaiming the "L" word
Only in America -- the U.S. in particular -- has the word Liberal been so slammed and denigrated that it somehow connotes something shameful and subversive.
Bullshit. It's time to take it back and wear it with pride, folks. Hell, up here in Canada, it's the name of the party in power.
And speaking of liberal, only 1 week left until the new liberal talk radio networkvoxpopgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387045101063895263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5014244.post-1077309190218525342004-02-20T15:32:00.000-05:002004-02-25T23:34:49.873-05:00Has He No Shame?
Ralph Nader is jumping into the Presidential race, according to this Fox News article. He's to make the formal announcement on this Sunday's MTP. Unlike the 2000 presidential race when he ran under the Green Party mantle, this time he'll be running as an independent. Shame on Ralph Nader.
Judging from the results so far in the last 18 Democratic primaries and caucus voxpopgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387045101063895263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5014244.post-1077052395038276962004-02-17T16:13:00.000-05:002006-03-07T05:12:48.870-05:00Killing the Music?Tell me this is not a dead-on take of the White Stripes:WHITE STRIPES (The Greek Theatre): After watching this show, I was a bit confused! The two of them are at such different musical levels, they sometimes seem like they're in two separate groups. For instance, the girl seems like she's doing perfectly fine drumming in her Half-Retarded Make-Believe Band. And then he has to voxpopgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387045101063895263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5014244.post-1076984679310521462004-02-16T21:24:00.000-05:002004-02-16T21:26:32.700-05:00"Nobody died when Bill Clinton lied."
The slogan featured in the title of this post first began appearing in the offworld a.k.a. the internet on blogs throughout 2003, then became the name of a blog which featured photos of various signs found along roadsides across the States displaying similar sentiments.
Last Sunday, the line finally made it into the mainstream media uttered by a newspaper voxpopgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387045101063895263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5014244.post-1076984599533817452004-02-16T21:22:00.000-05:002004-02-16T21:25:12.936-05:00The Old Bait and Switch
Josh Marshall's latest post expresses his incredulity at Bush's brazen claim to a crowd in Florida today that "Democrats would endanger America's fiscal health by raising taxes."
Marshall takes to task the Bush bullshit by pointing out the facts::
When the president came into office the budget surplus was over $200 billion. Now the deficit is over $500 billion.
Even voxpopgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387045101063895263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5014244.post-1076675843852073342004-02-13T07:37:00.000-05:002004-02-15T22:47:29.483-05:00Let the Smears Begin
The GOP has officially descended to that which requires the least amount of work for an already derelict press and to that which is most appealing to those aiming for the "journalistic" path of least resistance : Dirt.
On the crest of the latest Washington/ABC News poll which reports that "a majority of Americans believe President Bush either lied or deliberately voxpopgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387045101063895263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5014244.post-1074871512523257632004-01-23T10:14:00.000-05:002004-01-23T10:32:29.246-05:00Has anyone heard anything more about this?
Found at a site known as Interest!Alert:
Report: bin Laden held
BERLIN, Jan. 22 (UPI) -- Al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden has been captured, Germany's Die Welt newspaper reported Thursday.
The newspaper, on its Web site, cited "unconfirmed reports" as the basis for its report.
Bin Laden is the Saudi dissident blamed for the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks onvoxpopgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387045101063895263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5014244.post-1074716162272985732004-01-21T15:00:00.000-05:002004-01-21T15:32:11.436-05:00Stop the cookies from crumbling
Last night's State of the Union address was pathetic and flat and offered no solutions to what Shrub will do for most American's other than his minority base.
Even Bush devotee pundit Andy Sullivan was aghast at how "hard right the president was on social policy". So much so that he wrapped up his post by stating that "If you're a fiscal conservative or a voxpopgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387045101063895263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5014244.post-1074635853394292872004-01-20T16:54:00.000-05:002004-01-20T17:01:30.076-05:00The State of the Union: Fantasy versus Reality
Bush's State of the Union address is tonight at 9pm EST; make sure to have your State of the Union Scorecard [PDF File] within reach courtesy of Tom Paine, so that you can tally Bush's fictional projections and promises as he pats himself on the back about what he's done for America against the reality of what he's done to it and it's citizens.
voxpopgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387045101063895263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5014244.post-1074123474073142742004-01-14T18:25:00.000-05:002004-01-14T18:55:48.403-05:00Howard the Hottie
Setting aside the seriousness of the issues facing America today, and departing for a brief moment from Howard Dean's wonderfully run grassroots campaign and his powerful draw to so many America citizens, who knew Howard was quite the looker in his youth... ?
Well alrighty then.
Via CarlWithak.com, a young L.A. Dean supporters' site, feast your eyes on the rest of thevoxpopgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387045101063895263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5014244.post-1073974017277025792004-01-12T21:45:00.000-05:002006-03-27T11:28:05.893-05:00Bush in 30 SecondsI happened to tune into the live online simulcast from the Bush in 30 Seconds contest sponsored by MoveOn.org's Voter Fund about 45 minutes ago, just in time to watch the announcement of the Best Animated ad, Best Youth Ad and Funniest Ad; They're just about to announce the winner of the Overall Best which was judged by a panel of political experts as well as celeb filmmakers, voxpopgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387045101063895263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5014244.post-1071766535077940862003-12-18T11:55:00.000-05:002003-12-18T11:56:27.983-05:00 9/11 Chair & Bush admin. appointee: Attack was preventable
Thomas Kean, Republican and Bush appointee Chairman of the Independent Commission investigating the 9/11 attacks is saying that the 9/11 was preventable and is pointing his finger in the direction of some inside the Bush administration:
There are people that, if I was doing the job, would certainly not be in the position they were in voxpopgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387045101063895263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5014244.post-1070350484378728772003-12-02T02:14:00.000-05:002003-12-11T00:20:50.140-05:00Remind us again....
Why did the Bush administration send 150,000 American husbands, wives, sons, daughters and friends to die in Iraq?
Despite Bush Inc.'s determination to change the subject and the reasons for their liberation of invasion of Iraq, this flash video reminds us without a doubt what the Smirkster and his administration's "reasons" were, by replaying Bush's statements of his voxpopgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387045101063895263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5014244.post-1069581133712370332003-11-23T04:52:00.000-05:002003-12-11T15:24:22.686-05:00You Can't Be Too (s)Careful These Days
The only thing we really have to fear is fearmongering itself.
So writes Maureen Dowd in this Sunday's NYTimes OpEd titled "Scaring Up Votes", regarding the Smirksters' RNC presidential campaign ad to be aired today in Iowa; Dowd expounds on the scare tactics the ad utilizes, citing the following exerpt from the ad as a prima facie illustration:
"It voxpopgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387045101063895263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5014244.post-1068551894578034052003-11-11T06:57:00.000-05:002003-11-11T06:58:12.380-05:00Never Forget
It's Remembrance Day here in Canada and Veterans Day in the U.S.
The NY Times has published the letters of young American soldiers who died this year during this unnecessary war in Iraq. Featured in the Editorial section under the title "The Things They Wrote", reading them is enough to break your heart over and over again, and i can only imagine the anguish and loss their voxpopgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387045101063895263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5014244.post-1065251761509263442003-10-04T03:18:00.000-04:002003-10-04T03:36:49.713-04:00Deaf, Drugged and Ideologically Blinded
Back on Oct. 11, 2001, the House Ear Institute in Los Angeles held a press conference and announced they were treating Rush Limbaugh for rapid hearing loss which they attributed to AIED or autoimmune inner ear disease(AIED).
"We are treating Rush Limbaugh for hearing loss resulting from autoimmune inner ear disease (AIED)," said Jennifer Derebery, M.D., voxpopgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387045101063895263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5014244.post-1065076997990110902003-10-02T02:50:00.000-04:002003-10-05T19:16:50.410-04:00Voxpopgirl on Vacation
voxpopgirl readers may have noticed that it's been a little quiet over here for a month; my bad: definitely should have mentioned that i was taking the month of September off chilling out for much needed R&R;
i'll be back posting on a regular basis after returning from Hamilton, Ontario at the end of next week, where i'm looking forward to hanging with my wonderful voxpopgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387045101063895263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5014244.post-1062504706882893742003-09-02T08:11:00.000-04:002003-09-02T14:27:55.483-04:00Are You A NeoCon?
Take the interactive Neocon Quiz and find out.
The Christian Science Monitor's site has a wonderful Special section dedicated to all things Neocon, titled "Empire Builders: Neoconservatives and their blueprint for US power"; it's well worth reviewing; while there, take a moment to click through an interactive profile of the key neocon figures and top players which is a voxpopgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387045101063895263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5014244.post-1061801173132741702003-08-25T04:46:00.000-04:002003-08-26T00:52:56.246-04:00 Leave Room for Dessert
It's looking to be a busy week and i'm not gonna be able to focus on writing up the usual weakly dose of ad hominems and hail mary's about media and politics, so here's a serving of vpg-lite for the shallow and shell-shocked.
For those of you who can't make up your mind what to have for your morning meal, you can always hit up Mister Breakfast who looks more like Mr. voxpopgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387045101063895263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5014244.post-1061288892325578432003-08-19T06:28:00.000-04:002003-08-19T14:44:40.616-04:00Well, that explains it
This Guardian article, which sounds more like it must have come out of The Onion, reveals that a U.S. Government funded study titled Political Conservatism as Motivated Social Cognition has concluded that underlying psychological motivations that mark conservatives are:
* Fear and aggression
* Dogmatism and intolerance of ambiguity
* Uncertainty avoidance
* Need for voxpopgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387045101063895263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5014244.post-1060348043730532832003-08-08T09:07:00.000-04:002003-08-26T00:58:55.223-04:00 Friday Fodder
Today's OpEd's worth checking out
Steven Martin's clever NYTimes OpEd demonstrates how incredulous the Bush administrations' artless lies are.
Paul Krugman's NYTimes OpEd on the coarse and heavy hand of the Bush ideologues' nationbuilding in the cradle of civilization, Iraq.
In other News, Not.
As usual, the U.S. news media outlets all but ignored or under-reported the newsvoxpopgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387045101063895263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5014244.post-1060203126279442082003-08-06T16:52:00.000-04:002003-08-07T06:48:30.210-04:00Singing for Your Supper. Not.
Argh. there's nothing worse than "actor's who can't sing" -- that is, if you exclude "actors who can't act who can't sing", as in, William Shatner**.
A good example of a good "actor who can't sing" is Jeff Bridges, who put out an album last year with the eager title "Be Here Soon!" which garnered it's first and only single never to be heard anywhere in popular voxpopgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387045101063895263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5014244.post-1060084736355780522003-08-05T07:58:00.000-04:002003-08-05T12:31:00.680-04:00Army of One
"We have done our job and have done it well, we have fulfilled our obligation to this operation, but we are still here and are still being mistreated and misled. When does it end? Do we continue to keep the liberators of Iraq here so they can continue to lose soldiers periodically to snipers and ambushes? My unit has been here since September and they have no light at the end of the voxpopgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387045101063895263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5014244.post-1059843762438646412003-08-02T13:02:00.000-04:002003-08-02T16:28:53.550-04:00Rumsfeldspeak an empty echo chamber.
Memo to Rummy: Talk is cheap. Guess what isn't?
The past few days have had Doonesbury offering up a series of scathing panels lampooning the disingenuous chirpy doublespeak of that bald-faced liar who heads up the Pentagon and the Dept. of Defense (DoD) -- Donald Rumsfeld.
I thought it was worth publishing the first five panels in this particular voxpopgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387045101063895263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5014244.post-1059826060132822812003-08-02T08:07:00.000-04:002003-08-02T11:30:46.240-04:00To U.S. Forces: the cost of being an informant? Priceless.
To Iraqi citizens: the cost of being an informant? Your Life.
Let's put it this way: that dude who just informed the U.S. forces as to the whereabouts of Uday and Qsay? He had better take his $30M reward and head out of town. Like, now. Or else, he might just end up like this:
THULUYA, Iraq -- Two hours before the dawn call to voxpopgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387045101063895263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5014244.post-1059653243114628822003-07-31T08:07:00.000-04:002003-07-31T13:32:38.856-04:00Teach Your Children Well
19 year old Royal Palm Beach High School student David McNamara from Florida has figured out his life's mission, bless the poor misguided bastard. Known as the "Anti-Porn Guy", Dave's got plans.
Big Plans for America.
Unfortunately, The Anti-Porn Guy's rules and ethics are on par with those of the Taliban. Is this kid for real? Judge for yourself.
I am also voxpopgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387045101063895263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5014244.post-1059045934780195442003-07-24T07:25:00.000-04:002003-07-24T08:26:11.633-04:00Retaliation?
Saddam Hussein's sons were reported to have been killed by U.S. forces 2 days ago, or as Keith Olbermann announced on his MSNBC program Countdown, yesterday: "Uday and Qusay are ead-day".
Only yesterday, on the heels of this news, it was reported that two U.S. soldiers died in Northern Iraq near Mosul.
Just this morning, three more U.S. soldiers died in an attack on a convoy voxpopgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387045101063895263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5014244.post-1058529272055860122003-07-18T07:54:00.000-04:002003-07-18T07:54:31.970-04:00•• Dusting for your Fingerprints ••
In posting thoughts and musings publically, bloggers have, in effect, given permission to strangers and friends alike, to lean over their ethereal shoulder and take a look and what's on their mind.
I've certainly lurked on a regular basis around a handful of blogs that span this global village, more often than not, remaining silent whilst gaining access voxpopgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387045101063895263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5014244.post-1058527174931673102003-07-18T07:19:00.000-04:002003-07-18T07:53:38.633-04:00•• Twist This ••
"Play the game and see if you can untangle the truth", says a cute and mildly amusing new "game" the DNC has posted at their site, they call George W. Bush Presidential Twister. Go ahead and take a spin.
voxpopgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387045101063895263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5014244.post-1058351021893069902003-07-16T06:23:00.000-04:002003-07-16T07:24:55.660-04:00•• Supremely Offensive Prayer ••
Pat's massive prayer offensive
This is not to be believed -- except -- that is, by those True Believers: the 700 Club viewers and their beloved host, Pat Robertson, founder of the Christian Coalition and the Christian Broadcast Network, and parnter with Liberia's despot ruler Charles Taylor in a goldmine venture.
You'd think Pat's time and energies would be voxpopgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387045101063895263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5014244.post-1058258612498991562003-07-15T04:43:00.000-04:002003-07-15T04:43:32.520-04:00•• Freakshows, Sideshows, Plaintalk and Sidewalks ••
Springer's in, Fleischer's out... and Bush defends his intelligence (O.K., i meant his admin's intelligence sources) as "darn good".
Good. Good riddance! and --whaaaa? In that order.
And dang me: all in a 24 hour news cycle.
O.K. Turning the page... aside from barhopping, where do i have to go to meet/bump into all the good smart voxpopgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387045101063895263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5014244.post-1058194307705513122003-07-14T10:51:00.000-04:002003-07-14T11:41:14.640-04:00•• Bush's Foreign Policy for Dummies ••
It seems everytime George W. Bush gets a little bit too cocky and comfortable in own his shoes as pResident of the U.S., he goes off script and says what he's really thinking -- which is not only frightening to most level-headed people here and around the world -- but also soon thereafter invokes a parade of print & on-air clean-up teams to sop up the messvoxpopgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387045101063895263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5014244.post-1058185322122145092003-07-14T08:22:00.000-04:002003-07-14T08:32:59.390-04:00•• Memo to Dems: Fight Club, good; Losers, bad ••
Saturday's Doonsebury strip at Slate made a salient and apropos observation about the "difference" between Conservatives and Liberals. It was funny because it's true, as the conservative character tells the liberal in the strip, that,
"You liberals are hung up on fairness. You actually try tro respect all views! But conservatives feel no voxpopgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387045101063895263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5014244.post-1058003360853200612003-07-12T05:49:00.000-04:002003-07-12T05:49:20.723-04:00•• Randy & Vanessa's Wedding ••
One of my dearest friends and a truly gifted musician, my favourite drummer in Canada (and my fav drummer to play with), Randy Cooke, got married a few weekends back on June 22 to his wonderful girlfriend Vanessa Emmer. It was an intimate gathering of Randy & Vanessa's family as well as a small circle of friends from Randy's side (we muso's) who witnessed a voxpopgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387045101063895263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5014244.post-1057657253820714082003-07-08T05:40:00.000-04:002003-07-08T18:34:45.513-04:00•• Savage Schadenfreude ••
Hey... so, what's coming up on MSNBC's Savage Nation this Saturday?
Nada. Zip. Zero. Take a look for yourself at the show's frontpage on MSNBC. The slate's blank.
That's because MSNBC just fired the show's host, like, oh, on Monday night. Whaaa? (voxpopgirl exclaimed in feigned distress).
Well, before we go there, let's take a moment to stroll down memory lane voxpopgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387045101063895263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5014244.post-1057598086150686992003-07-07T13:14:00.000-04:002003-07-07T14:25:07.436-04:00MSN's Encarta Dictionary definition of "bullying" reads:
Back on Aug. 12 of last year, a press release titled "NGO Coalition Condemns US Bullying to Gain Exemption from ICC", by an NGO Coalition known as the Coalition for the International Criminal Court went on the record in trying to heighten the awareness of the Bush "Administration's tactics, threats of economic sanctions, to convince voxpopgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387045101063895263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5014244.post-1057163812483328942003-07-02T12:36:00.000-04:002003-07-18T02:10:59.976-04:00•• Campaign Ad Advice for the Dem's ••
Matt over at Crookdimwit reminds us that when it comes to the Republicans, "facts aren't the stubborn things they used to be" and points to a Yahoo! News article about a new poll out this week [PDF File] conducted by the Program on International Policy Attitudes at the University of Maryland which says that (sadly and shamefully) 52% of people polled voxpopgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387045101063895263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5014244.post-1057087259979723172003-07-01T15:20:00.000-04:002003-07-01T15:22:07.286-04:00•• Happy Canada Day ••
voxpopgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387045101063895263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5014244.post-1056956898948136502003-06-30T03:08:00.000-04:002003-06-30T03:17:07.540-04:00•• My Comment System ••
The comment system i've been using ever since i began this blog earlier this year is known as BlogOut.
It's served this blog and all the voxpopgirl dwellers, lurkers and participants (including yours truly) well and i've met alot of kewl peeps via the "Shout Out" links at the bottom of each of my posts; however, for the last 3 days, BlogOut has been down and instead of voxpopgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387045101063895263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5014244.post-1056434594120998592003-06-24T02:03:00.000-04:002003-06-24T02:03:14.133-04:00•• Denial and Deception: the Cowardly U.S. Press Corp and Bush Inc. ••
It's Tuesday, and you know what that means: the NYTimes's latest Paul Krugman OpEd is in da house. Here's the opening graf:
Politics is full of ironies. On the White House website, George W. Bush's speech from Oct. 7, 2002 -- in which he made the case for war with Iraq -- bears the headline "Denial and Deception" Indeed.voxpopgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387045101063895263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5014244.post-1056350936698735412003-06-23T02:48:00.000-04:002003-06-23T19:22:39.653-04:00•• A half truth is a whole lie ••
Last friday, my fellow blogger pal Matt posted at his wonderful blog Crookdimwit with a virtual shaking of his talented head that "Nearly half believe that the White House may have exaggerated fact, but they don't care."
I commented to him that perhaps at this point in time, Americans (according to those latest "polls"), might not care;
However, since the voxpopgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387045101063895263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5014244.post-1056104877914269562003-06-20T06:27:00.000-04:002003-06-20T06:29:27.356-04:00•• my kewl new cellphone ••
Lemme tell ya about my fun new cellphone. Dig the snaps i took with it this past Thursday night:
Tyler, Terence & moi @ Hugh's Room on Thursday
Over the last year or so, i've become fed up with my Nokia "accidentally" calling up people.... you know how it is: the cellphone's either in your pocket or in your bag, and it's on and somehow, unbeknownst to you, voxpopgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387045101063895263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5014244.post-1055835729456599052003-06-17T03:42:00.000-04:002003-06-17T03:55:40.823-04:00•• Intended Casualties of Bush's War: reality and truth ••
The NYTimes' Paul Krugman is my "go-to" guy every Tuesday and Friday, and his columns never let me down; if only the docile Democrats would follow suit and kick the fearmongering arrogant Republican asses a la Krugman -- relentlessly, consistently and continually until election eve of 2004.
Get your Krugman fix on the Bush Admin's "voxpopgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387045101063895263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5014244.post-1055744852714444032003-06-16T02:27:00.000-04:002003-06-16T02:34:16.180-04:00•• Eric Rudolph, Christian Terrorist ••
Ever since Eric Rudolph was apprehended and arrested, i've been wondering when Christian Fundamentalist John Ashcroft and his Justice Dept. were going to proclaim Rudolph for what he is: a Terrorist. Period.
Blogger and comic strip artist Tom Tomorrow's latest strip takes Ashcroft to task by applying all the Ashcroftian axioms to the newly captured voxpopgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387045101063895263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5014244.post-1055744770145567962003-06-16T02:26:00.000-04:002003-06-16T02:26:10.166-04:00•• Ohhhhhh, so now it's a WMD "Program" ••In an article published yesterday in Salon, Jake Tapper writes:When President George W. Bush says "cow," does he really mean "milk"? Does he use the terms "light bulb factory" and "light bulb" interchangeably? According to White House press secretary Ari Fleischer, when the president declared two weeks ago Friday that "weapons of mass destruction" had voxpopgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387045101063895263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5014244.post-955410432003-06-11T04:00:00.000-04:002003-06-11T22:42:19.000-04:00•• Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton: Record Breaking book sales on Day 1••
Monday: Fans wait in line for Sen. Clinton to sign copies of
"Living History" outside a Barnes & Noble bookstore in N.Y.C.
Back in 2000, when Hillary Clinton's book deal with Simon & Schuster was announced, Alfred Regnery, rightwing Publisher and President of the rightwing conservative movements' book publishing company voxpopgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387045101063895263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5014244.post-952898202003-06-04T12:32:00.000-04:002003-06-04T15:10:13.000-04:00•• Casualty of War: America ••
A June 3/03 Toronto Star headline reads: "World support for U.S. at new low, survey suggests". By now we've all either read or heard about the Pew Global Attitude Report, however, most American newspapers and cable outlets have not mentioned the poll results of where Canada stands in that poll;
The Star tells us that:
Among Canadians, 63 per cent of the 500 voxpopgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387045101063895263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5014244.post-952741412003-06-04T03:20:00.000-04:002003-06-04T11:34:37.000-04:00•• Another Perfect Landing from Mr. Top Gun ••
"If some tinhorn terrorist wants me, tell him to come and get me!
I'll be at home! Waiting for the bastard!"
Toronto Star political commentator and author Linda McQuaig reports that just in time for the 2004 Presidential election campaign, Americans will be privy to a “made-for-TV movie — filmed in Toronto this spring — of George Bush's heroic voxpopgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387045101063895263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5014244.post-952725822003-06-04T02:16:00.000-04:002003-06-04T02:25:42.000-04:00•• Salam Pax's Debut Guardian column ••
As promised, here's Baghdad Blogger Salam Pax's debut Wednesday column in the U.K. Guardian featuring his reports on life in the Iraqi capital. In the midst of a lawless city in bedlam, Salam's signature irreverence remains intact; a few choice paragraphs:
Vacancies: President needed - fluent in English, will have limited powers only. Generous voxpopgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387045101063895263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5014244.post-952585482003-06-03T19:19:00.000-04:002003-06-03T19:20:42.000-04:00•• Signs that You Might be a Canadian* ••
1. You're not offended by the term "HOMO MILK".
2. You understand the phrase "Could you pass me a serviette, I just dropped my poutine, on the chesterfield."
3. You eat chocolate bars, not candy bars.
4. You drink Pop, not Soda.
5. You know what a Mickey and 2-4 mean.
6. You don't care about the fuss with Cuba. It's a cheap place to go for your voxpopgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387045101063895263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5014244.post-951769082003-06-02T00:19:00.000-04:002003-06-02T00:35:18.000-04:00••Baghdad Blogger inks deal as Columnist••
Remember Salam Pax, the Baghdad blogger whose straight talk and dry barbs about life in Baghdad leading up to the war we all kept dibs on before and during the war on Iraq? Seems we bloggers and political junkies on the web weren't the only ones paying attention.
Local activists on the ground in Baghdad are striving to publish an independent newspapervoxpopgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387045101063895263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5014244.post-950990462003-05-30T18:26:00.000-04:002003-05-31T09:19:04.000-04:00•• Secrets and Lies (Part 1)••
Re-posted here at voxpopgirl, via Billmon's blog WhiskeyBar; full props to Billmon for doing what the Democratic Leadership has so far failed to do on behalf of the American people: expose Bush Inc.'s lies to the American people. A shout out to Toronto Star Media Critic Antonia Zerbisias for hipping me on this wonderful blog.
"What a Tangled Web We Weave . . .voxpopgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387045101063895263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5014244.post-950984362003-05-30T18:08:00.000-04:002003-06-08T00:03:53.000-04:00•• Secrets and Lies (Part 2)••
Today's NYTimes OpEd by Paul Krugman titled "Waggy Dog Stories" reminds us of the diversionary tactics and "cooked intelligence" manufactured and brought to us by Bush Inc. in order to fulfill their neocon fantasy of re-shaping the geopolitical/economical map and cementing U.S. supremacy in the 21st century -- or in the New American Century as the neocons prefer voxpopgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387045101063895263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5014244.post-949880572003-05-28T09:41:00.000-04:002003-05-29T13:10:06.000-04:00•• US finds evidence of WMD at last..... ••
"......buried in a field 50 miles from Washington near Fort Detrick near the Maryland countryside". So says a report in today's UK Guardian.
The Guardian piece, written by reporter Julian Borger in Washington, casts a critical lense on the U.S. media's standards of reporting; the article posits that although this new discovery of evidence of WMD's voxpopgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387045101063895263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5014244.post-947315952003-05-22T07:15:00.000-04:002003-05-22T08:55:29.000-04:00••Celebrity cyber-shoulder-rubbing••
This morning i typed "May 22" into Google and discovered i share the same birthday with British actor Sir Laurence Olivier, American impressionist artist Mary Cassatt, German composer Richard Wagner and finally, with the very first lyricist i really listened to and who was ultimately influential in steering me away from becoming solely a musician, and voxpopgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387045101063895263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5014244.post-945325012003-05-18T07:42:00.000-04:002003-05-21T19:25:28.000-04:00••Get Rich on Bennett's Shuffle••
A losing hand: Bush bets on Bennett
Just because the NY Times' Frank Rich has left the OpEd pages and moved on over to the Arts & Entertainment pages, doesn't mean he's lost his mojo.
Here's Rich on the busted Bill Bennett, author of The Book of Virtues and moraliste extraordinaire -- au contraire.
voxpopgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387045101063895263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5014244.post-944781902003-05-16T20:55:00.000-04:002003-05-17T08:17:51.000-04:00••voxpopgirl's lazy friday••
Had too much other cool stuff to do today, but i'll post some links to three guys that are well worth reading when you get a moment to kick back over da weekend:
Paul Krugman has a great piece in today's NY Times OpEd about Bush's "telegenic" campaign to fight terrorism, versus his real life failed campaign against the war on terror.
Slate founding Editor and a voxpopgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387045101063895263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5014244.post-943207592003-05-14T06:39:00.000-04:002003-05-14T09:26:18.000-04:00••ACTION ALERT: Showdown At The FCC -- Only 19 days left for you to do something!••
If ever there was a more potent issue and a more crucial time to organize day-in day-out massive rallies in the streets of America's cities by those very same peace activists who did such a brilliant job at drawing the news media's attention and in turn, the American public's attention to the hundreds of voxpopgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387045101063895263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5014244.post-943185512003-05-14T05:16:00.000-04:002003-05-20T23:34:35.000-04:00••Sweet & Sour Chicken Balls with Chris Matthews••
Did anyone happen to catch Chris Matthews on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart last week?
[Sidebar 1: for my European pals -- and that means you: IA in Sweden, and Pauline in London -- it's known as The Daily Show: Global Edition carried on CNN International],
[Sidebar 2: to my North American pals -- in these Bush-whacked times, what would voxpopgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387045101063895263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5014244.post-943182302003-05-14T05:04:00.000-04:002003-05-14T23:36:10.000-04:00••Big Brother = Big Fun••
Speaking of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, here's a great video clip featuring the Daily Show's Steven Colbert, doing a segment on the "benefits" of the Bush Administration's Patriot Act, called "So You're Living In A Police State" * (22 MB - Takes a while to open, but well worth the wait. Requires QuickTime Player, available on all platforms)
And while you're voxpopgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387045101063895263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5014244.post-942191492003-05-12T15:14:00.000-04:002003-05-12T20:24:04.000-04:00••Gore Vidal's Prophetic Injustice••
In lieu of America's current and potentially perpetual "war on terror", with the war in Afghanistan waged in 2002 and the U.S. prëemptive war on Iraq this spring of 2003 still fresh in our collective minds, i thought it appropos to re-publish a portentous paragraph from the opening chapter from "Dreaming War: Blood for Oil and the Cheney-Bush Junta", the voxpopgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387045101063895263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5014244.post-942142542003-05-12T13:37:00.000-04:002003-05-12T13:48:06.000-04:00••American media is a hall of broken mirrors••
Back on March 30, when Natalie Maines of the Grammy award winning Dixie Chicks said her thing in London the day before the war, it appeared that they had instantly became persona(e) non grata in the U.S. -- that is -- according to blitz headlines and bylines on the frontlines of the U.S. media reports, as well as the ensuing "news" that commercial voxpopgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387045101063895263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5014244.post-939780782003-05-08T03:40:00.000-04:002003-05-08T04:32:11.000-04:00••The Return of Salam Pax••
The Baghdad blogger, Salam Pax is back. He had stopped posting on March 24 when the bombs started falling and the blog went black until today; with the help of his internet correspondence pal Diana Moon, he was able to send her a Word attachment confessing that he is "going thru massive internet withdrawal symptoms. So here are what should have been 15 entries voxpopgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387045101063895263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5014244.post-937085302003-05-03T11:55:00.000-04:002003-05-03T21:36:43.000-04:00••Full Circle with William Gibson: from Yorkville Hippie to Cyberpunk Daddy••
If you ever have a couple of hours to kill, go and hit up the CBC video archives; there's loads of cool interview and doc footage there about and with famous Canadians in our cultural, political and artistic history... in the "Life and Society" category, there's "Trudeaumania: A Swinger for Prime Minister" Topic voxpopgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387045101063895263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5014244.post-935293772003-04-30T09:34:00.000-04:002003-04-30T11:38:29.000-04:00••U.S. Portable Bunkers & Monolithic Concrete Dome Homes••
Aha! This might be the real reason behind U.S. Army Sec. Thomas E. White's resignation and for Army Chief of Staff General Eric Shinseki's imminent departure.
And of course, they can live out a comfortable life of retirement in one of these.
Guest space won't be a problem, and all their entertainment needs can be easily met in voxpopgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387045101063895263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5014244.post-935209022003-04-30T05:08:00.000-04:002003-04-30T08:57:08.000-04:00••"Cockpit shenanigans... on the rise"••
Get a grip boys.
And girls.
That's right. Forget Newt's neocon antics at the AEI, the current SARS crisis, that 4.9 earthquake in Georgia last Sunday and the arrival of West Nile Virus season. Ease your seat back into the recline position and shift your gaze onto the glossy pages of the USA Today Travel section, and read all about the folks at voxpopgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387045101063895263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5014244.post-933972142003-04-28T09:25:00.000-04:002003-04-29T08:14:53.000-04:00••A Stacked Deck••
The Top 4 Serial Offenders, courtesy of UggaBugga.
The graphics are pretty hack, but then again, so are the politics and rhetoric of the rogues on these cards.
To shuffle through all 52 Perps in the Bush Regime Playing Cards, go here.
voxpopgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387045101063895263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5014244.post-931414072003-04-23T19:02:00.000-04:002003-04-24T00:54:07.000-04:00••"too much f***ing perspective ?"••
In blurring the focus, Ted Rall, puts things back into focus.
More from Michael Kinsley about the Spoils to The Victor(s). voxpopgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387045101063895263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5014244.post-930343612003-04-22T04:05:00.000-04:002003-04-24T06:04:16.000-04:00••a little Dobbs'll do ya••
That's it. It's Official:
Lou Dobbs has tossed every last ounce of impartiality out the window when, in the 2nd last segment of his CNN program Moneyline on April 8, he announced that "Hanoi Jane is back in the news". That was the CNN "news" anchor's choice of words when "reporting" the headline news item about Jane Fonda's wicked commie statement to a Canadian voxpopgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387045101063895263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5014244.post-928572212003-04-18T17:10:00.000-04:002003-04-18T17:22:12.000-04:00••confessions of rad woman••
as a first generation Canadian of Italian heritage on my father's side, and a little more Italian and Brit blood from my cockney-accented mum, my parents had my bro and i go through at least 2 of the motions of symbolic catholicism with baptism and confirmation more because of my Italian Nona who lived with us for the first 5 yrs of our lives and then lived voxpopgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387045101063895263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5014244.post-927130992003-04-16T09:20:00.000-04:002003-04-30T16:43:24.000-04:00••Teach Your Children Well••
Don't ask me why, as a liberal, i torture myself by subscribing to daily e-newsletters from hatemongering propagandists like James Taranto's Best of The Web from the WSJ's Opinion Journal or why i submit myself to much of the squalid screed found in Townhall.com's daily e-newsletters from the likes of David Horowitz, Anne Coulter and Michele Malkin.
Michele who voxpopgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387045101063895263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5014244.post-925175442003-04-13T01:26:00.000-04:002003-04-13T02:00:57.000-04:00••Send a Message with U.N. Peace Stamps••
On March 28 of this year, the United Nations Postal Office in New York issued a 23-cent stamp dedicated to peace. The vignette of the stamp, printed in the United Kingdom, depicts the word PEACE amidst a series of multicoloured hands holding one another.
Show your support for Peace, and for the U.N., and place an order for the 2003 UN Peace Stamp.voxpopgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387045101063895263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5014244.post-923943312003-04-10T20:30:00.000-04:002003-04-11T12:56:40.000-04:00••the day after the day after••
What a difference a day makes.
Only yesterday, symbols of Saddam Hussein's tyranny being bulldozered and dragged through Baghdad's Fardus Square were broadcast live around the world. Images of American troops inside Baghdad were prevalent, yet in a city of 5 million, only a few dozen citizens gathered on the streets of Baghdad.
People are still nervous. voxpopgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387045101063895263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5014244.post-919946862003-04-04T13:02:00.000-05:002003-04-04T13:02:42.593-05:00••Friends in high places, yet still Working the Refs*••
Rupert Murdoch's tabloid, the NYPost, reports this truly unbelievable bit of news:
Geraldo Rivera, who -- unlike Peter Arnett, put the U.S. troops he was travelling with in harm's way by revealing their location *and* what their next move was going to be in a live broadcast on Fox by drawing a map in the sand, is not only NOT getting voxpopgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387045101063895263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5014244.post-918367452003-04-02T06:23:00.000-05:002003-04-02T09:07:03.000-05:00••action transposed into words••
i am pro-troop.
i am anti-war.
the two are not mutually exclusive.
audblog audio post [Audblog's lo-fi quality makes me sound as if i have a lisp!]
i justed wanted to take a moment to send a shout out to my pal Sandra over at BushRant for giving me the heads up on a pattern she'd begun to notice both in the print and television media recently: when reporting voxpopgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387045101063895263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5014244.post-916954932003-03-31T02:56:00.000-05:002003-04-03T05:08:46.000-05:00••echos and shockwaves••
Scott Ritter's back. glad to see it.
new piece here. The moneyquote -- a rather "Ellsebergian" echo:
"It is too late for stopping the war, but we can change the government that got us into this war," Ritter said. "It is a dereliction of duty for us to not oppose this with all of our strength if this war is not justified."
oh and while Rummy's laying low ducking blowsvoxpopgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387045101063895263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5014244.post-916362862003-03-30T00:22:00.000-05:002003-03-30T00:26:49.000-05:00••Right to Freedom of Speech co-opted••
MEMO TO HOLLYWOOD ACTORS: shut the fuck up.
UNLESS of course, the hollywood actor is a former President of the USA or leading spokesperson for the NRA.
That's what the The Citizens Against Celebrity Pundits and the Boycott Hollywood Project folks would like to make loud and clear. But the CACP and the BHP have upped the ante and stepped into a voxpopgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387045101063895263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5014244.post-915286312003-03-28T00:38:00.000-05:002003-03-28T06:29:14.000-05:00••Perles of Wisdom for the Feithful••
Today when i was reorganizing and archiving my email folders, i stumbled on an old email i'd sent to the NY Times' OpEd writer, economist Paul Krugman last fall.
In my email, i'd enclosed this article titled "Perles of Wisdom for the Feithful" that i'd read in the Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz back on Oct/3/02; of course, it never found it's way into any voxpopgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387045101063895263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5014244.post-911744032003-03-22T05:46:00.000-05:002003-03-23T01:53:49.000-05:00••coalition of the anonymous, the dependent, the halfhearted & the uninvolved*••
a new Get Your War On is in da house.
* the phrase from this post's title is from Bill Keller's most recent Op Ed in the NY Times
voxpopgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387045101063895263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5014244.post-911715432003-03-22T03:21:00.000-05:002003-03-27T13:39:01.000-05:00••Perle's UN-savory victory••
Only two days into the U.S. led Attack on Iraq, and New World Order architect Richard Perle is already giddy and gloating.
Yep. In Friday's OpEd in The Guardian, Richard Perle wrote that he's pleased as punch he and his neocon henchmen disemboweled the UN.
Well, he didn't quite say it that way. i'm being unfair. The Chairman for the voxpopgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387045101063895263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5014244.post-911500522003-03-21T17:50:00.000-05:002003-04-04T05:43:36.000-05:00•• embedded -- in bed with -- the Pentagon** ••
Stockholm Syndrome is a survival mechanism. it takes root in conditions where an individual or individuals are isolated in captivity with only themselves and their captors in conditions where their lives are at risk, resulting in an emotional bond that develops between the captors and the captives.
i am not suggesting that embedded journalists voxpopgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387045101063895263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5014244.post-909823742003-03-19T04:50:00.000-05:002003-03-27T13:32:46.000-05:00••a shout out right back to Antonia Zerbisias••
to my total surprise, voxpopgirl received a shout out in yesterday's Toronto Star column written by one of my fav writers and columnists, Media Critic Antonia Zerbisias, whose columns have always been linked in my side column under "Media Watchers". at the end of her recent column, she points readers to 2 very interesting blogs "from the Front" (voxpopgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387045101063895263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5014244.post-908220212003-03-16T18:03:00.000-05:002003-03-27T13:35:20.000-05:00••Introducing: 2 New Blogs From the Front••
with the onset of an inevitable pre-emptive war perhaps mere days away, i wanted to introduce voxpopgirl readers to two fascinating if not mysterious blogs that i stumbled upon about 3 weeks ago at completely unrelated times while i was surfing the web; i have taken the liberty of adding them to my right side column of links under the heading "From voxpopgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10387045101063895263noreply@blogger.com