Oh, What Tangled Webs They're Trying To Unweave

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Saturday November 08, 2008 · 2:16 PM PST

2008/11/08 · 14:16

"Oh what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practice to deceive!"

Sir Walter Scott, you were a wise man.

RiotGirl

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Friday November 07, 2008 · 11:50 AM PST

2008/11/07 · 11:50

"This is Paris, and I'm an American who lives here."

When thinking of the 1951 movie/musical, Gene Kelly comes to mind in all his black-haired glory, neatly combed for the swooning crowds of teenage girls. His character in this particular musical is Jerry Mulligan, a money-starved painter who stayed in Paris after World War II and encounters "a minor romantic complication in the usual gaudy Hollywood gay Paree." -- nicely put by the New York Times writer Bosley Crowther. The other star-crossed lover is played by Leslie Caron, who's star power some say can only be rivalved by her other famous movie, Gigi.

Where did this love affair with France go?

When did America evolve from the suave life of the party, to the guy that always looks like he's staring a flashlight in the face?

Can Obama be the botox-injection that smooths out the kinks of this wrinkled nation? It may already be happening.

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Tuesday November 04, 2008 · 10:10 PM PST

2008/11/04 · 22:10

After reading a Reader's Digest article this month about Obama's overwhelming international popularity, I wanted to get some international opinions about the now elected President Obama. (WOW!)

More articles from around the world will be published tomorrow, but I wanted to post a few excerpts from this British editorial, taken from "The Guardian". The whole world rests on his shoulders now.

(P.S. The pictures are from the New York Times).

RiotGirl

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Tuesday October 28, 2008 · 3:27 PM PDT

2008/10/28 · 15:27

A minor's perspective is different. We are more ignorant, more immature, and easily influenced by our peers. We are the LOL generation, the Internet generation, the generation of fast-food-eating-texting-googling-celebrity-crazed adolescents.

However, we are the ones inheriting this mess "you adults" created for us. (Not to point fingers or anything.)

My dad introduced me to this site before the primaries, when I began to show some interest in politics...and I must say, this was an extreme insult to my teenage ego. I had thought that I knew more about worldly issues than most people my age, but this site just blew me away. Some diaries have made me laugh, some have made me cry, and others I plainly did not even understand at all. This site has pushed me to take the initiative and research...and procrastinate my English papers.

But don't get me wrong, I'm still basically an idiot that's ignorant about pretty much everything.

How can I convince my high-school peers in a very Republican state (Texas) to vote for Obama?

I would have liked to research the answer to this question myself, but to look at the histories of both candidates, and research the entire U.S. government system would take years. And I don't have years. I have 7 days.

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