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Next on CBS: Angry Women

In: Entertainment| Lesley's Blog| Video| sports

31 Jan 2010

Well, CBS hasn’t botched their late night programming quite as effectively as NBC has, but they’re racking up major idiot points of their own: Next Sunday is the Superbowl, and CBS has come under some serious fire for its decision to air an advertisement by the organization Focus on the Family – who vehemently oppose abortion- ie: a women’s right to choose.

Really? Because last time I checked there was a division between Church, State and the Media. Or there was supposed to be, anyway.

Despite their longstanding tradition of prohibiting controversial spots during the Super Bowl, “CBS now claims to have changed its policy on accepting advocacy ads. But its decision to debut this policy by associating itself with the anti-choice, anti-equality Focus on the Family raises serious questions about CBS policies and bias” (Souce: The Women’s Media center.)

As part of their efforts to get CBS to drop the add, the Women’s media center has launched a campaign, urging viewers to suggest what CBS stands for. Their examples include “Corporate Broadcast Sell-outs” or “Completely Blatant Sexism.”

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Tags: advocacy ads, CBS, Focus on the Family, pro-choice, superbowl ad, womenh's media center

Palmer’s Snowboots dance

In: Lesley's Blog| Montreal| The Pups| Video

28 Jan 2010

When it gets very cold, Palmer needs to wear little boots to go outside (otherwise he refuses to walk, and stands with one leg in the air like a tripod). He loves the boots once he’s outside, but everytime we put them on, this is what happens:

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I’m with Coco

In: Celebrity| Entertainment| Lesley's Blog

21 Jan 2010

“Hosting ‘The Tonight Show’ has been the fulfillment of a lifelong dream to me. And I want to say to the kids out there watching, you can do anything you want in life… unless Jay Leno wants to do it, too.”
–Conan O’Brien

Never been a Jay Leno fan, and this whole debacle certainly hasn’t changed my mind.

Good Luck, Conan.

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Eight Days of Hanukkah - by Sen. Orrin Hatch

In: Lesley's Blog| Music| Politics

11 Dec 2009

One of the most amusing, and downright heartwarming stories to come out of this holiday season, stars none other than Orrin Hatch, the senior senator from Utah and a prominent member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Yup, that’s right, THAT Orrin Hatch.

(On an editorial side note, I’m running with the spelling “Hanukkah” because it’s what’s used in the article… but I’ve always been more partial to “Chanukah”.)

You can read Jeffrey Goldberg’s entire account of how Orrin Hatch came to write a Hanukkah song at Tablet Magazine. Here’s a little snipit:

“It’s a delightful thing to have Orrin Hatch write a song for Hanukkah. Of course I appreciate the absurdist quality to this project, but I also deeply appreciate Hatch’s earnestness. His lyrics are not postmodern or cynical, which is a blessing, because I for one have tired of the Adam Sandlerization of Judaism in America. Yes, we are, as a people, funny (at least when compared to other people, such as Croatians) but our neuroses, well-earned though they may be, have caused us to lacerate our own traditions, which are in fact (to borrow from Barack Obama) awesome. The story of Hanukkah is a good case in point—maybe the perfect one.”

Happy Hannukkah/Chanukah, everyone!

‘Eight Days of Hanukkah,’ by Sen. Orrin Hatch and Madeline Stone