Reality Check: Reader Responses

READER RESPONSES

This is mostly bollocks. (ANGLO-AMERICA ON PARADE – Issue: 3/2/11) Of course the British society depicted has a rigid and repressed hierarchy—the movie is set 70-90 years ago within the Royal Family.

British society has changed enormously since then (as has American society), and, having lived in America…

by   |  04/20/2011  |  Comments (0)

Reality Check: Opening Act

Staged Drama In The Final Minutes To Avoid Government Shutdown (For Now)

It is still an open question, however, as to what extent exposure really injures a performer.
- Harry Houdini

The Show was in full force by late Friday night when word came down a mere 22 minutes before…

by   |  04/13/2011  |  Comments (0)

Reality Check: COUNTDOWN TO COMPROMISE

How Congress Stretches Credibility And Avoids 2011 Government Shutdown

By the time this goes to press, we’re looking at eight days until a “continuing resolution” deadline for the legislative branch to send a bill to the White House or run the risk of a third federal government shutdown of the…

by   |  04/06/2011  |  Comments (1)

Reality Check: The Ides Of Libya

How To Take An Arab Sucker Punch

Think not I am what I appear.

- Lord Byron

This thing in Libya, the “humanitarian effort”—or whatever the strategic bombing of a sovereign nation embroiled in civil war is now called—is wrong. It is wrong for this country. It is wrong for…

by   |  03/30/2011  |  Comments (0)

Reality Check: READER’S RESPONSES

This is an excellent piece. (THE TEA PARTY MAN – Issue: 2/16/11) It does an excellent job explaining Rand Paul, the dilemma of the Republicra­ts, and how it will affect government in the future. I’m just pleased that we have one principled person in D.C., even if he is libertaria­n.…

by   |  03/23/2011  |  Comments (0)

Reality Check: The Cake Has Been Taken

Pack Your Sanity In Your Old Kit Bag And Puke, Puke, Puke

If you had a dime for every time a government official has used national security to railroad some segment of society, you’d never have to work again. The pitiable history of humanity is ripe with this kind of…

by   |  03/16/2011  |  Comments (1)

Reality Check: Jobs, Jobs, Jobs

You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. And what I mean by that is an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.

—Rahm Emanuel, November 2008

Jobs.

It is the word of the year. It was the word last year. Everything from the…

by   |  03/09/2011  |  Comments (0)

Reality Check: Anglo-America On Parade

The King’s Speech and The Social Network in Oscars Contrast

By the time this goes to press, it is likely one of the two films we’ll discuss here will have won the Academy Award for Best Picture; The King’s Speech or The Social Network. Granted, many outside of Hollywood…

by   |  03/02/2011  |  Comments (0)

Reality Check: While You’re Away

Tips For A Pending Federal Government Shutdown

The shit is coming down.

-Georgetown at Shelly’s Back Room, November 7, 1995

It is nostalgia time in The District this week as the Reality Check News & Information Desk unveils “alternative” plans (schemes) to successfully piggyback a 2011 federal government…

by   |  02/23/2011  |  Comments (0)

Reality Check: The Tea Party Man

Rand Paul’s Maverick Battle For The New Right

Rand Paul is a dangerous man. The thing is, it’s difficult to tell whether the freshman Senator from Kentucky is more dangerous to the Left or the Right. Inarguably, he is dangerous to The System, for, if nothing else, he isn’t screwing…

by   |  02/16/2011  |  Comments (0)


Site designed by Subjective Designs | Powered by WordPress | Content © 1969-2012 Arts Weekly, Inc. All Rights Reserved.