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May 28, 2004
Hey Mike, Cannes It!: Dude, where’s your dignity?
Michael Moore poses with his Palme d’Or moments before trying to unwrap it to see if there was chocolate inside.
Michael Moore has been wronged and he wants the world to know about it. Even if it isn’t true. And even if he knew it wasn’t true for almost a year. His latest publicity stunt is par for the course for a man who has built his career by getting what he wants by telling you what you should want. And a lot of people are helping him get what he wants.
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May 18, 2004
Doomed To Repeat It: Nick Berg dies over and over again on millions of computer screens
After hearing about last week’s beheading of 26 year-old American Nick Berg in Iraq at (we now know) the hands of Abu Masab al-Zarqawi, a Jordanian militant with ties to al-Qaida, I was infuriated. Berg was an innocent civilian working in Iraq to better Iraq - and make some money in the process - and, despite his described recklessness and taste for adventure, he did not deserve to die.
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May 11, 2004
A Bigger, Blacker Cracker Barrel
According to Webster’s dictionary, the word “cracker barrel” is an adjective describing something that is characteristic of country life, and nothing is more characteristic of country life in the South than your local Cracker Barrel restaurant, complete with delicious racial tension.
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May 03, 2004
The Perils of the First Amendment: Rene Gonzalez Gets What’s Coming To Him
Free speech is a two-way street, and over the last week, the words of UMass Daily Collegian columnist Rene Gonzalez have demonstrated that fact.
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