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Just two weeks after Mickey Mouse turned 75, there is mucho turmoil in the House of Mouse. Michele just discussed Roy Disney’s departure from the Disney board yesterday and his scathing criticism of chairman and chief executive Michael Eisner. Now a second board member has resigned: Stanley Gold, a key …

You have to admire David Bowie’s energy and enthusiasm at this advanced state of his career: Rock legend David Bowie announced on Monday he would headline two of Britain’s biggest music festivals next year … July’s T in the Park at Balado, near Kinross in Scotland, and at the Isle …

I admit I am fairly jaded to the whole entertainment cycle routine: I just don’t get that worked up about the debut or release of almost anything because there’s always SOMETHING coming out that SOMEONE wants me to get excited about, and I’m at the point where I figure I …

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Absolutely terrific column from Thomas Friedman today on the appropriate approach to Iraq from the left: I stood on the sidewalk in London the other day and watched thousands of antiwar, anti-George Bush, anti-Tony Blair protesters pass by. They chanted every antiwar slogan you could imagine and many you couldn’t …

Really damn freaky people can get married too – why not? There’s no way former “Baywatch” star Carmen Electra and Jane’s Addiction guitarist Dave Navarro could have had a regular wedding ceremony. The platinum-and-red invitations called for “hot and sexy” attire. And the 200 guests who arrived at the St. …

This is absolutely critical reading. Stuart Cohen, who has been with the CIA for 30 years, was acting chairman of the National Intelligence Council when the 2002 National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction was published. Does he have a dog in this race? Yes he does, but …

In response to this post from over a year ago being resurrected for criticism, I would say it will be time for Little Green Footballs to stop attacking extremist elements of Islam when the insanely intolerant, autocratic, shitbreaths stop doing things like this: Murtaza Khaliq, a film student at Pakistan’s …

The manga trek continues - with a school-based dramedy . . .

Our manga journey continues - with a horror title for girls. . .