So Mitt Romney has a sappy new video out called “The Promise of America.” His basic message: that he will make America better by returning us to the nation we once were. He doesn’t explain what that means, but if you look at this collage of every closeup shot in the video, one thing is clear: the America Mitt Romney sees is really, really white.
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Christmas 2012 just got a whole lot sweeter….
Great Gatsby trailer….due in theaters December 21, 2012
“Bloomsbury, the publisher of the “Harry Potter” series by author JK Rowling, also said it was counting on a new Rowling three-book box set tied into the Potter series, and a non-fiction account of spies in World War II to support sales in the coming year.”
IS THIS REAL LIFE?
First a poster, now….a teaser trailer!!!! Let’s all watch the trailer for Skyfall…the new 007 flick starring Daniel Craig. Please, and thank you.
Teaser poster for Skyfall, the 23rd James Bond movie starring Daniel Craig
New True Blood Season 5 trailer released yesterday, May 13.
#waitingsucks
![Controversial Magazine Cover of the Day: When Time magazine released its mom-breastfeeding-3-year-old cover last week, Newsweek’s Tina Brown laughed and promised: “Let the games begin.”
And so they have — Newsweek released its latest cover Sunday, and the furor is directed not so much at Obama’s rainbow halo but the title of Andrew Sullivan’s accompanying story: “The First Gay President.”
Barack Obama had to come out of a different closet. He had to discover his black identity and then reconcile it with his white family, just as gays discover their homosexual identity and then have to reconcile it with their heterosexual family. The America he grew up in had no space for a boy like him: black yet enveloped by loving whiteness, estranged from a father he longed for (another common gay experience), hurtling between being a Barry and a Barack, needing an American racial identity as he grew older but chafing also against it and over-embracing it at times.
This is the gay experience: the discovery in adulthood of a community not like your own home and the struggle to belong in both places, without displacement, without alienation. It is easier today than ever. But it is never truly without emotional scar tissue. Obama learned to be black the way gays learn to be gay. And in Obama’s marriage to a professional, determined, charismatic black woman, he created a kind of family he never had before, without ever leaving his real family behind. He did the hard work of integration and managed to create a space in America for people who did not have the space to be themselves before. And then as president, he constitutionally represented us all.
The comparison of Obama’s struggle with racial identity to the struggle of coming out is quite a stretch. But as Sullivan is one of the most prominent and respected gay writers in the country, his words obviously are not meant to offend. Coining Obama “the first gay president” is merely a savvy money-making move.
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Controversial Magazine Cover of the Day: When Time magazine released its mom-breastfeeding-3-year-old cover last week, Newsweek’s Tina Brown laughed and promised: “Let the games begin.”
And so they have — Newsweek released its latest cover Sunday, and the furor is directed not so much at Obama’s rainbow halo but the title of Andrew Sullivan’s accompanying story: “The First Gay President.”
Barack Obama had to come out of a different closet. He had to discover his black identity and then reconcile it with his white family, just as gays discover their homosexual identity and then have to reconcile it with their heterosexual family. The America he grew up in had no space for a boy like him: black yet enveloped by loving whiteness, estranged from a father he longed for (another common gay experience), hurtling between being a Barry and a Barack, needing an American racial identity as he grew older but chafing also against it and over-embracing it at times.
This is the gay experience: the discovery in adulthood of a community not like your own home and the struggle to belong in both places, without displacement, without alienation. It is easier today than ever. But it is never truly without emotional scar tissue. Obama learned to be black the way gays learn to be gay. And in Obama’s marriage to a professional, determined, charismatic black woman, he created a kind of family he never had before, without ever leaving his real family behind. He did the hard work of integration and managed to create a space in America for people who did not have the space to be themselves before. And then as president, he constitutionally represented us all.
The comparison of Obama’s struggle with racial identity to the struggle of coming out is quite a stretch. But as Sullivan is one of the most prominent and respected gay writers in the country, his words obviously are not meant to offend. Coining Obama “the first gay president” is merely a savvy money-making move.
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(Source: thedailywhat)
Kickass Dad of the Day: When Stuart Chaifetz learned that his 10-year-old son, Akian, was being violent and disruptive in class, he was puzzled. He knew Akian, who has autism, to be mild-mannered and sensitive, and had a hunch that something more was going on. But after several meetings with a team of school officials created to help special-needs students, nothing changed. So Chaifetz did what any concerned parent would do.
On the morning of Friday, February 17, 2012, I wired my son and sent him to school. That night, when I listened to the audio my life changed forever. I heard my son being bullied by his teacher and aide. The six and a half hours of audio I had proved that my son wasn’t hitting the teacher because there was something wrong with him — he was lashing out because he was being mocked, mistreated and humiliated. His outbursts were his way of expressing that he was being emotionally hurt at school.
The New Jersey father has since launched a website full of damning evidence and aFacebook page, and he is petitioning the state to change legislation so that teachers who bully children are immediately fired. The aide has been fired, but the rest of the staff have merely been relocated.
“I seek a full and public apology from all those adults who were in my son’s class for what they did to him,” Chaifetz says. “It is also far past time that these issues are allowed to be hidden from public view.”
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(Source: thedailywhat)
![Box Office: ‘Hunger Games’ beats record with $155-million debut [Updated]
The film starring Jennifer Lawrence posted the third-highest domestic debut of all time, behind only the $169.2-million opening for the final “Harry Potter” installment and the $158.4-million launch of “The Dark Knight.” That means “The Hunger Games” also grossed more on its opening weekend than any other non-sequel.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1gg20MEFN1qztsh3o1_1280.jpg)
Box Office: ‘Hunger Games’ beats record with $155-million debut [Updated]
The film starring Jennifer Lawrence posted the third-highest domestic debut of all time, behind only the $169.2-million opening for the final “Harry Potter” installment and the $158.4-million launch of “The Dark Knight.” That means “The Hunger Games” also grossed more on its opening weekend than any other non-sequel.
(Source: ryking)
THANK YOU JOHN MAYER…in love.
Here’s a clip of the first single off Born and Raised, called “Shadow Days.” I’m excited to share the first bit of sound from the album… Been looking forward to a post like this since October 14, 2010, the first day I started writing this group of songs. Enjoy.
(Source: jhnmyr)
Jeremy Renners arms…..and other new Avengers pictures. Yummy! So excited.
Mamma loves new Spiderman trailers!
President Obama’s Christmas present to America: New air quality standards that sharply reduce the emissions of mercury and other airborne toxins from power plants. Also: this photo.
(Source: motherjones, via barackobama)
Holy crap. So excited. Don’t talk to me on January 14. I will be busy.
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