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My Inauguration Boots

Those are my Inauguration boots.
Every time I wear them I say to myself — sometimes silently, sometimes out loud — “these are my Inauguration boots.”
One year ago today, my Inauguration boots saved my life (or at least my toes) as I stood in them for 12 hours straight along with thousands of my fellow frozen [...]

The Goddess Watches President Obama’s Afghanistan Speech (so you don’t have to)

Critics have accused the president of “dithering.” Supporters say it’s been a period of “thoughtful reflection.” Whatever the case, this speech has been months in the making (the war in Afghanistan has been eight years in the making). So I have a feeling the speech won’t be one of those seven-minute George Bush specials. I’m [...]

The Goddess Watches the Obama Healthcare Speech (so you don’t have to)

Transcript of speech

I’m worried about Obama’s speech tonight.
I’m worried that he’s going to listen to the pre-speech pontificating I’ve been hearing and go all hyper-specific about the kind of healthcare reform he wants. He’s been pretty quiet on this score and that hasn’t worked, this line of reasoning goes. Time to give the American people [...]

Unflattering Politician Photo of the Week

What About the Children?! Edition

Keep the kids home from school! Lock your doors! Write your congressman! We have to protect our children! No, not from swine flu — from the president!
Jim Greer, chairman of the Republican Party of Florida, wins the prize this week as either Right Wing Wingnut in Chief or Best Exploiter of [...]

Unflattering Politician Photo of the Week

Take a Chill Pill (If You Can Afford One) Edition

Jesus Christ, are you kidding me with these friggin idiots?! Just stab me in the ear with a ballpoint, it will hurt less.
Many of the same hardened corps of nutballs who are convinced that President Obama is a Kenyan-born Muslim are now bringing their special [...]

Unflattering Politician Photo of the Week

“Where’s She Going? I Dunno, Alaska” Edition

“See ya … wouldn’t wanna be ya!”
Alaska Governor Sarah Palin is now just Sarah Plain and Tall, after leaving office this week for … well, no one’s really sure.
In her farewell speech, Palin said:
It is because I love Alaska this much that I feel it is my duty to [...]

Unflattering Politician Photo of the Week

Facing His Waterloo Edition

If we’re able to stop Obama on this, it will be his Waterloo. It will break him.”
Sen. Jim DeMint, Republican of South Carolina, was caught in the accidental act of telling the truth this week, when he took an issue that affects all Americans — their access to affordable heathcare — and [...]

The Goddess Kinda Watches the President’s Press Conference
(so you don’t have to)

As President Obama strides to the podium for tonight’s press conference, I notice he doesn’t really have what I’ve come to think of as a presidential walk. He’s so cool and casual: none of that stiff arms, cowboy frog march we got from President Bush. 
President Obama has a few good moments during the news conference. [...]

Quote of the Week

Why can’t America be exactly like America, but with decent health care and maternity leave?! Then it would be, like, a normal country!
– Mr. Goddess, cogently analyzing America’s health care crisis.

Barack TV

President Obama was on all three broadcast channels and the cable news networks yesterday. I think I spotted him on Animal Planet discussing White House puppy options and the Food Network sharing his favorite omelette recipes.
What was supposed to be a full-throated defense of the economic stimulus package turned into a mea culpa marathon, as [...]

Capsule Movie Reviews

Up in the Air
Pittsford Plaza 01.01.10
Fantastic. So simple, so small, but kinda perfect. And very on point with the current economic situation.

Avatar
Pittsford Plaza
The day a filmmaker with an actual story to tell ("unobtanium?!" hilarious.) gets his or hands and this amazing visual technology, that will be something.

An Education
The Little 11.24.09
Sally Sparrow from Dr. Who is all-grown up! You do feel as if you are watching a star in the making in Carey Mulligan.

Pirate Radio
The Little 11.13.09
Funny in bits (best bit: Bill Nighy dancing) but not funny as a whole. A bit episodic, with a ridiculous ending.

A Serious Man
The Little 11.07.09
The Coen brothers have made another divisive film: I really like it; Mr. Goddess hated it. I thought it was deeply funny and deeply ... deep.

Capitalism: A Love Story
The Little 10.05.09
Unlike other Michael Moore docs, this was more of a piece of investigative journalism than a political screed. Moore shines his light on for-profit prisons, the appallingly low salaries of airline pilots, and the "dead peasant" insurance policies companies take out on their own employees -- all in the name of making a profit out of anything.

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