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What Chelsea and Jenna’s Weddings Say About American Partisanship

In History, News, Opinion, Politics, Twitter, fame on 1 August 2010 tagged Bill Clinton, BP Republicans, Chelsea Clinton, Chelsea Clinton Wedding, George W. Bush, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Jenna Bush, Jenna Bush Wedding, Safari, Safari 5 Extension Gallery, Sarah Palin, Twitter, Wal-Mart with View Comments

Thanks to the advent of the new Safari 5 Extension Gallery not only did I know when Chelsea Clinton‘s wedding was, but also that it allegedly cost in the millions. Also thanks to the Safari 5 Extension Gallery I spotted someone on Twitter commenting that the cost differencial between Jenna Bush and Chelsea Clinton’s weddings [...]

How 140 Characters Lead to Death of a CNN Reporter’s Career

In COMM 535, History, News, Opinion, Politics, Twitter, War, fame on 8 July 2010 tagged @OctaviaNasrCNN, CNN, COMM 535, Hezbollah, Octavia Nasr, Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah, Tweet, Twitter with View Comments

Whether Octavia Nasr was fired or simply came to a mutual decision to leave CNN, her untimely exit from her post as Senior Editor of Mideast Affairs raises important questions about journalists and their engagement with new media. As someone who has been following Nasr for sometime on Twitter I must say the news comes [...]

AFL-CIO President Calls for Immigration Reform on Same Day as Mint’s Racist Blog Post

In History, News, Opinion, Politics, Racism, Twitter on 20 June 2010 tagged Aaron Patzer, AFL-CIO, Barack Hussein Obama, City Club of Cleveland, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Guest Worker Program, Health Care, Immigration, Immigration Reform, Lake Eerie, Lake Erie wind turbine project, Mint.com, MintLife, NAFTA, North American Free Trade Agreement, Ohio, Republican, Richard L. Trumka, Senate, The Economic Cost of Immigration, Twitter, Twittersphere, Unemployment with View Comments

Speaking at the at the City Club of Cleveland, AFL-CIO President, Richard L. Trumka spoke about the importance of immigration reform in the United States. Trumpka, who does not support a guest worker program, reminded the people of Cleveland that the executives of corporations – large and small – were the ones taking away the [...]

HBO’s Neda Agha-Soltan Documentary

In Crime, History, Iran, News, Opinion, Politics, Twitter, citizenship, fame, fashion on 16 June 2010 tagged #Iranelection, Ali Ansari, Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei, Azar Nafisi, Green Revolution, HBO, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mehdi Karoubi, Mir-Hossein Mousavi Khameneh, Mousavi, Neda Agah Soltan, Neda Agha-Soltan, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Tehran with View Comments

“The God I worship is a compassionate and loving God” – Neda Agha Soltan “The whole idea with this [Iranian] regime is that because they confiscated religion and turned it into an ideology, they deprived it of everything that makes religion humane…so this government in fact destroyed the religion by claiming it and confiscating it” [...]

Despite MANY Problems in Afghanistan, Peace Jirga Declaration Condemns Israel

In Afghanistan, Crime, History, News, Opinion, Palestine, Politics, Twitter, War, citizenship on 5 June 2010 tagged @WazhmaFrogh, Afghan election, Election Fraud, Flotilla, Gaza, Gaza Strip, Kabul, National Consultative Peace Jirga, Peace Jirga, Tweetpaste, Twitter, United Nations with View Comments

As if the actual people of Afghanistan (not sure how the warlords in attendance are fairing) did not have their own problems with 30 years of on-going war, election fraud, illiteracy, bribery on a mass scale, and poverty, the final declaration of this week’s Peace Jirga at Kabul Polytechnic University condemns Israel for the raid [...]