Posts Tagged ‘Glenn Beck’
July 13, 2011
I love dead poets, and dead philosophers too. Thank goodness for liberal arts educations and their classical referents. They won’t make you rich like an MBA does, but they help to make important sense of the world. Aristotle’s definition of tragedy is among the truest of insights: people and institutions that have the […]
Posted in Politics, Religion |
Tags: Anthony Weiner, Aristotle, Fox News, Glenn Beck, Greek mythology, News of the World, Rebekah Brooks, Religion in America, Roger Clemens, Rupert Murdoch, Rush Limbaugh, tiger woods, Wall Street Journal
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May 5, 2011
We know there’s a god, or the death of Osama bin Laden would have come the day before the royal wedding. Imagine then the shrieking and screaming from all who still believe in fairy princes and princesses, were the best news about the world’s worst terrorist allowed to infringe on Happy Times in Britain’s […]
Posted in Pop Culture, Social Issues |
Tags: Charles and Diana, CNN, Fox News Channel, Geraldo Rivera, Glenn Beck, Groucho Marx, Kate Middleton, Osama BinLaden, Prince Philip, Will and Kate, Winston Churchill
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April 28, 2011
Not, “Bend it like Beckham,” a film of both drama and good humor about a dude, David Beckham by name, and his skill at free-kicks that curve, or bend, past walls of soccer defenders. This is about Glenn Beck, he of rapidly receding fame while his infamy grows. Beck is good at bending […]
Posted in Social Issues |
Tags: Charlie Sheen, David Beckham, Dr. Phil, Fox Broadcasting Company, Glenn Beck, Jennifer Robins, Jon Stewart, Keith Ablow, Peter Wehner, Washington Post
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January 11, 2011
Arizona was a “Territory” till 1912, and certain folks there are yet to stop riding mules and seeking gold in ghost mines. Quaintly, Phoenix’s “Historic” district are homes built in the 1930s and ‘40s. This is also the Arizona that nearly lost a major college bowl game a few years ago for outlawing Martin Luther […]
Posted in Guns Control, Politics |
Tags: Arizona, Arizona tragedy, Glenn Beck, Gun control, Jan Brewer, Joe Arpaio, Martin Luther King, Russell Pearce, Sarah Palin, Sen. John Kyl, Zippy the Pinhead
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October 14, 2010
If ever the American electorate went mad, this is the moment. People have scoured the past for prior insanity but came up short. The 1960s were close, considering Vietnam, the Nixon era and Watergate, not to forget the Generation Gap, a renewal of the Civil War’s “father against son, brother against brother”–not to mention the […]
Posted in Politics, Pop Culture |
Tags: CBS News, Colbert Report, Comedy Central, Daily Show, Glenn Beck, Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, United States
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March 5, 2010
Pygmies casting such long shadows is a sign of how late in the day it has become. CNN is drinking the “Tea,” a libation as lethal as Jim Jones’ cool-aid in Jonestown, and, in its infinite tolerance, purveying this deadly potion to the public. As U.S. politics boil to extreme temperatures, CNN’s apparent pull-back from […]
Posted in Politics |
Tags: CNN, David Gergen, Fox News, Glenn Beck, Jack Cafferty, Tea Party politics
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