- What you missed on Sunday Kos ...
- When is statutory rape not statutory rape? When you put a ring on it, by Susan Grigsby
- Are the teachers' strikes' the beginning of a real worker revolt, by Egberto Willies
- Seven questions for Aftab Pureval, Democratic candidate for House in Ohio's 1st congressional district, by David Akadjian
- Amidst all the other Trump administration crises, they're actively making the climate crisis worse, by Laurence Lewis
- How the Parkland school shooting is shifting the electoral landscape, by Sher Watts Spooner
- Republican charter school privatization plague infects Puerto Rico. #JuliaGoHome, by Denise Oliver Velez
- Some heads are gonna roll, by Mark E Andersen
- Trump dumps 'boring' talk on rich man's tax cut for racist fear-mongering. That's his real passion, by Ian Reifowitz
But I kept thinking about that scene. I thought about it again this past fall, after a number of women came forward with sexual-assault accusations against the producer Harvey Weinstein, and the #MeToo movement gathered steam. If attitudes toward female subjugation are systemic, and I believe that they are, it stands to reason that the art we consume and sanction plays some part in reinforcing those same attitudes. I made three movies with John Hughes; when they were released, they made enough of a cultural impact to land me on the cover of Time magazine and to get Hughes hailed as a genius. His critical reputation has only grown since he died, in 2009, at the age of fifty-nine. Hughes’s films play constantly on television and are even taught in schools. There is still so much that I love in them, but lately I have felt the need to examine the role that these movies have played in our cultural life: where they came from, and what they might mean now.
- Monday night would be a good night to for important things like taking inventory of your junk drawer:
Laura Ingraham is returning to Fox News on Monday night -- but some of her advertisers are not.
The 10-day-old ad boycott effort against Ingraham, led by student activist David Hogg, means that her show will have noticeably fewer ads than other Fox talk shows.
Todd Brassner, who died after a fire gutted his apartment on the 50th floor of Trump Tower on Saturday evening, was an art dealer and bon vivant with an extensive art collection and about about 250 vintage guitars and ukuleles in his apartment. [...]
According to friends, Brassner, 67, was in declining health and had been trying to sell his apartment since President Trump was elected. "He said, 'This is getting untenable,'" Stephen Dwire, a musician and music producer who had been friends with Brassner since they were 14, told The New York Times. "It was like living in an armed camp. But when people heard it was a Trump building, he couldn't give it away."
Fox News host Sean Hannity unleashed fire and fury against comedian Jimmy Kimmel during a more than 20-minute opening monologue of his Friday show, but viewers who wanted to check it out online are out of luck, as the network chopped the entire segment from their web broadcast. [...]
Removing the lengthy monologue and a subsequent segment on Kimmel with fellow Fox News host Judge Jeanine Pirro resulted in a web broadcast of just 20 minutes and 13 seconds, less than half the time of other episodes of “Hannity” viewable on the same page.
Former GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin said Sunday that she would run for higher office again “in a heartbeat.” [...]
“Oh yes, I would do it again in a heartbeat,” replied Palin. “I will push back harder on some of those who were trying to mold me into something that I was not during the campaign. I would’ve pushed back and gotten more truth out there, but yes.”
On today’s Kagro in the Morning show: The same dumb gun things keep happening. Greg Dworkin discusses flipping the flipping Congress, how Trump's trade war hits losers he doesn't care about, and the Gop Plan E: admit Trump should be impeached. Kushner gets his mystery bailout.
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