It was unusually satisfying to watch beauty contestant turned Bible-thumper Carrie Prejean crash and burn.
Tag: social
Nicholas F. Benton: Tea Bags, 2M4M & Susan Boyle
The thousands of Americans who engaged in exhibitions of public teabagging yesterday, a.k.a. rallies emulating the anti-tax Boston Tea Party, cheered on by Fox News and CNBC throughout the day, constitute the Republican Party’s worst nightmare.
The Peak Oil Crisis: Priorities
In the next few years, most of us are going to have to make many important decisions that will profoundly affect the rest of our lives. How soon these decisions come will depend on one’s individual circumstances.
The Peak Oil Crisis: Civil Unrest
Before grappling with 2009, it might be useful to remind ourselves that there is a dark side to what lies ahead.
Nicholas F. Benton: Ending 30 Years Of Anger & Fear
With the watershed national election last month, millions of Americans will begin to experience many irrational, subconscious fears melting away, having a collateral effect akin to curing at least selective blindness.
Letters to the Editor for December 11 – 17, 2008
F.C. Planner: About More Than Parking Editor, I had little doubt that the Planning Commission vote on the FCHC project would be taken to task (to be polite) in this paper, so I thought I’d just write a brief note.
Nicholas F. Benton: Obama & the Fall of ‘The Man’
The United States is on the verge of perhaps the most profound cultural sea change in its history.
Beauty Queens Boogie Down With ‘Buddies’ at Marshall H.S.
Students from George C. Marshall and Oakton High Schools shook up the Statesmen gym-turned-dance floor last Friday, sweating it out alongside Miss Universe, Dayana Mendoza, and Miss Teen USA, Stevi Perry (left), for Marshall’s Best Buddies program.
Press Pass with Broken Social Scene
When you perform as part of an ensemble that has featured over 21 musicians during its nine-year history, sometimes individual contributions can be lost in the shuffle.
Editorial: ‘Taxpayers’ Are Citizens, First
Wall Street’s impact on Broad Street (Falls Church’s Main Street) will actually be felt more in countless residential neighborhoods both here and across the planet as personal retirement and pension accounts disintegrate and local governments face steep losses in both their investment account balances and tax revenues.
