Kumbaya Dammit : The New WWF Moving from weenies to winners BY DAN CAROL We all know that we can't fight something with nothing — and that saying no to Bush, to the Iraq War, and to conservative cronyism does not a message make. Yet when Democrats and progressives sit down to decide What We're For (WWF), we often put the other WWF — the World Wrestling Federation — to shame. [Read More]   Commentary: What is the Purpose? A mother responds to her soldier daughter's desperation. BY SARA RICH EDITOR'S NOTE: Sara Rich, MSW, was one of the speakers at the Take Back Our America rally March 18 at the Federal Building. Below is her talk, edited for length. We received the date for my daughter's redeployment to Iraq nine months before her entitled 18-month stabilization time. Her commanding officer forced her waiver of her rights to stabilization time between deployments and gave her a date 11 months after she returned from Iraq the first time. Two weeks later she got her readiness papers. Six months after she hopefully returned from Iraq the second time, she was scheduled to go over for yet another year. Three deployments to Iraq in less than four years. [Read More]   Monitoring the Media: Celebrating Pathology Why are we honoring the pimp culture? BY DEBRA MERSKIN Is it just me, or did something about an Oscar being awarded to a song about how hard life is for a pimp bother you? I know, some of you are saying, "It's just a song." "The movie was about getting out of that life." That may be true, but people I hear aren't necessarily processing the context when humming the content, particularly children. [Read More]
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