Clinton Focuses On Women's Rights In Graduation Speech • Child "Breastfeeding" Her Doll Causes Parents To Panic
• Hilary Clinton to the Barnard graduating class: "Women's progress is more than a matter of morality. It is a political, economic, social and security imperative...If you want to know how stable, healthy, and democratic a country is, look at its women, look at its girls." •
DVF, Presidential Ski-Bunny; Pam Anderson's Vivienne Westwood Ads Debut
- Diane von Furstenberg attended the inauguration with her oldest African-American friend, André Leon Talley. She hobnobbed with Oprah and David Axelrod, then dressed up in, um, a ski suit to watch the swearing-in. [Financial Times]
Odetta, "Queen Of American Folk Music," Dead At 77
Odetta, the singer whom Rosa Parks adored and Martin Luther King Jr. called the queen of American folk music, died yesterday at the age of 77. She was, by all accounts, a legend, with a powerful voice, and the prison songs and work songs of the Deep South shaped her life. Odetta sang at the march on Washington in…
Improv comedian Dennis O'Toole has
noticed a trend in people he sees as "the greatest Americans," they are all short men: Martin Luther King, Jr., Bob Dylan, Tom Cruise, and even that melting ball of dough, John McCain, all clock in around 5 feet 7 inches. O'Toole is himself a man of shorter stature and sees his lack…
Paging Jeremiah Wright: There's A White Guy Stealing Your Show!!!
And in the end, it was a white Catholic guy who drove Barack Obama to quit his radical, black Muslim separatist Church of Latter-Day Erstwhile Standup Comedians. Anyway, meet Father Michael Pfleger. He doesn't even preach at Trinity Church, he's just a regular on their "You Can't Do That On The Vatican" open mic…
40 years ago today, Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. was shot while standing on the balcony of the Lorraine Hotel in Memphis. (The picture here was taken the day before his assassination.) Dr. King was in Memphis to speak about poverty, and, in yesterday's Atlanta Journal-Constitution, King's son, Martin Luther King…
"The '60's, for those of us who can remember it — I mean, it was such a defining year. I made a list of some of the things that were going on then for the young people: The Vietnam War protests, the Kennedy assassination, Martin Luther King's murder, Civil Rights movement, women's liberation — so much happened..."…
Happy Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. We'll be working a half-day in honor of the holiday and will be back in full force tomorrow. Looking for an inspired start to your morning? Might we suggest a viewing of MLK's August 28, 1963 "I Have A Dream" speech? You can see it in its entirety here, or an abridged version here.…
Uncanny Observations
January 3, 1964: Time magazine honors Martin Luther King, Jr. with a "Man Of The Year" cover story: "The Invisible Man has now become plainly visible — in bars, restaurants, boards of education, city commissions, civic committees, theaters and mixed social activities, as well as in jobs." January 3, 2008: Illinois…
You Must Be Fucking Kidding.
We don't even know what to say about this:
