By David Swanson I expected to be disappointed by “Green Zone”. I mean the movie, not the chunk of Baghdad we’ve spent seven years and trillions of dollars killing over a million people to steal for an “embassy” containing 21 buildings on 104 acres. I’d been told that this movie was Matt Damon actually following [...]

This is the guy U.S. Judge Kent Dawson let off Vinny Green Back In Brooklyn; But Is Vegas Still In The Cards?  By Steve Miller  Tuesday, May 4, 2010 Vinny Faraci has friends in high places including Mayor Oscar Goodman and his law partner David Chesnoff. We have Senator Harry Reid to thank for appointing Kent [...]

On second thought, maybe the Beatles didn’t kill the Broadway musical. For half a century, theater folk have cursed rock and roll—including a certain diabolical quartet from Liverpool—for driving show tunes from American hearts and turntables: out went The Sound of Music, in came the sound of acid trips and fornication. [...]

There have probably been environmental hypocrites ever since the first caveman professed his love of wildlife right before going out and slaughtering giant herds of megafauna, but it’s never been clear exactly what underlies the hypocrisy. Sure, it’s easier to say than to do (to laud walking and carpooling but drive an SUV), and [...]