I wish more of our allies would speak the truth about our duly-selected president.
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But he is a moron
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Good for the Chicago Tribune
Yes, the picture is real.
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Music/Theatre recommendation
Target Margin is reviving The Sandman, the opera they premiered this summer. If you buy tickets before 12/26, they’re only $15. It’s certainly worth $15!
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Civilians benefit
If any of you out there would like to join me for The Civilians’ benefit on December 9 at The Cutting Room, you can now buy tickets online.
There’s a cash bar, so I promise to buy any of you who come at least one drink during the evening of entertainment. It’s hosted by Stephen DeRosa, currently The Baker in Into the Woods.
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I love subway movie critics
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Theatre recommendation
Hurry — it’s only through the weekend. Go see Three Birds at Gale Gates in DUMBO. The playwright is still in her 20s, and she has invented a brilliant language of her own, in a retelling of the myth of Tereus and Philomela. We had dinner afterward around the corner at Water Street Bar.
Earlier in the evening we went to A.R.T. to see J. Morrison’s show.
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I think I hurt myself
… laughing, that is. David E on the GQ editor who is worried about whether the magazine is too gay.
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Is this good for the gays?
Probably not, but maybe it will strike fear in the hearts of a few fundamentalists:
Friends and relatives of Stachowicz said the idea of her trying to convince Gutierrez to renounce his homosexuality was not out of character.
“Those of us who knew her immediately hear her soft voice saying something like, ‘God wouldn’t approve of the way you’re living your life,’” Mary Coleman, a friend and neighbor, told the Tribune.
Where do I send a check for his defense fund?
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I love Placido Domingo
Placido Domingo is to sing an unprecedented duet in Arabic with an Egyptian singer at a concert in Dubai next month.
He’s the “smart tenor”.
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What would Jesus Drive?
Yes, that’s an actual quote from a new media campaign linking conservation with godliness.
“We are under a commandment to be faithful stewards of God’s creation,” said Paul Gorman, executive director of the National Religious Partnership for the Environment, an umbrella organization of Christian and Jewish groups. “This is a crisis in God’s creation at the hands of God’s children.”
Leaders of many groups within the partnership have signed a letter to the Big Three’s chief executives asking for improvements in fuel economy. They say they have a biblical mandate to be good stewards of God’s creation and a responsibility to the poor who are especially harmed by pollution. And they decry supporting “autocratic, corrupt and violent” governments that produce oil.
I think the more likely outcome, if there a lot of such ads, is that it will lower the power of religion, but not oil. This country manages to combine one of the highest rates of believers in God in the rich world with a depressing lack of concern for anyone less fortunate.
Another good thing from the world of religion this week: Nuns arrested during protests against the formerly-named School of the Americas.
See Mattitude, I do show this side too.
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