[MCM] What's wrong with "Slumdog Millionaire"

On the one hand, Slumdog Millionaire is all about Dharavi, the vast slum district in the middle of Mumbai, and, especially, its wretched children. At the Oscars Sunday night, we heard a lot about those miserable masses from the happy Oscar-winners, some of whom said solemnly that Slumdog was for

[MCM] Ginsburg will be dead in 9 months, says Jim Bunning hopefully

Bunning: Justice Ginsburg likely will be dead in 9 months BY JOSEPH GERTH * jge...@courier-journal.com * FEBRUARY 22, 2009 http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20090222/NEWS01/902230303/1008 ELIZABETHTOWN, Ky. -- U.S. Sen. Jim Bunning predicted over the weekend that U.S. Supreme Court Justice

[MCM] Groups calls for Special Counsel to probe BushCo

GROUPS REQUEST SPECIAL PROSECUTOR FOR BUSH, CHENEY, et alia Organizations and individuals can add their names to this statement at http://prosecutebushcheney.org Statement on Prosecution of Former High Officials We urge Attorney General Eric Holder to appoint a

[MCM] The slumdogs to our south...

Could a Sudden Collapse of Mexico Be Obama's Surprise Foreign Policy Challenge? By Bill Weinberg, AlterNet Posted on February 19, 2009, Printed on February 21, 2009 http://www.alternet.org/story/127850/ A year-end report by the Pentagon's Joint Forces Co

[MCM] New Yorker plants a wet one on Rahm Emanuel

Glenn Greenwald Ryan Lizza's People Magazine love letter to Rahm Emanuel http://mobile.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/02/23/lizza/index.html White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel -- who