started in the UK in the early '70s (75-78) during a Labour government there (and Carter in the US). Punk is frequently assumed to be a reaction to Thatcher and Reagan. It was, in fact, a reaction to the dead-end hopelessness of welfare-state Britain in the '70s with rolling blackout, the three-day work week, and the attendant rise of fascist violence from the far right National Front.

YOU haven't been reading Salon for five minutes.

Look at the 10 Best Lists. Hell look at Zacharek's praise for the two ENGLISH-language films she reviewed along with this prehistoric turd.

It's a lot easier to critize than create? Well then it's certainly easier to write an uninformed letter than to write a review, huh?

that fount of integrity GG once more proudly proclaiming his incorruptible nature -- proclaiming it here for the sake of a quote that, dumb as it was, wasn't particularly interesting and certainly should not have caused Power to resign (and I say that as a Hillary supporter).

When does this infatuation with GG's insufferable self-righteousness stop? Does it bother anyone that he sees no distinction between interviews and email? Why would anyone in their right mind communicate anything with this man?

"Let's hear it for Jeff Greewald, the only Salon Reporter with hair on his ass."

I think you mean across his ass.

Oh, yeah, and his name is Glenn.

of young writers who've gotten hold of "an issue."

Wait until the end of April to rent it for your kids. Criterion is releasing it then on a new DVD, and apparently they've remastered it. They're also putting out "White Mane," another movie by Lamorisse about a little boy which is, maybe, even better. Hope your kids like it.

Because we all know selling out football stadiums is what greatness and relevance is all about.

They can sell out the fucking Grand Canyon. It still doesn't change that they have no surprises left in them, no urgency (not the same thing as energy), nothing of the hunger that have kept, say, Springsteen and Neil Young (or that did keep John Lee Hooker, Howlin' Wolf, Johnny Cash) from coasting. The Stones can go on and on and on. Their career is over (has been since Tattoo You) because they're frozen.

Jump up and down so we can hear 'em clank together!

What an asshole.

"This was about the editors of Seal Press showing up on one individual's blog to take her to task because she wrote something they didn't like."

Oh, right, because how dare Seal Press respond to someone saying "Fuck you!" I mean, Miss Ann is jes s'posed to take it, I guess.

Crap. If aspiring writers of any hue want to get published, they can send queries, pitches, treatments, etc.

And if anyone of any color in any forum talks trash and then gets taken to task for it, DEAL WITH IT. You insult someone, you get answered back (and, judging from Seal's response -- a damn sight more civilly than was deserved). To then get outraged because someone responded to your insult is narcissism of the first rank.

Oh, and Tracy, is it cowardly not to come down on one side, here?

Yes.

Ladies and gentleman, I give you the winner of this week's No Shit, Sherlock? Award

Just don't like movies with black people or you have no sense of humor?

UB is fucking hilarious.

. . . exactly right.

Yesterday it was the newspapers morons like Leitch defeated. Will his Internet defenders be there when the King Kaufmans of the web prove too intelligent for the blogomorons?

may well be the left's only hope of understanding why we as liberals should realize this culture is opposed to everything we as liberals are supposed to stand for. Let's remember this story when we hear Tariq Ramadan lauded for proposing a "moratorium" on stoning women so a dialogue can open up. On what?

And rejoice in what the Internet has bequeathed us in the mode of substantive dissent.

I understand being creeped out by the Real Doll phenom. But what is there particularly "ugh" in this ad? It's just a close-up with funmuzak playing? Is there a section missing on this download?

Absolutely. I mean God forbid that hack James Earl Jones should ever get to play King Lear.

"My kid is 3. She's smart and openminded. She found the brilliant first 3rd of the movie (which I enjoyed) to be scary and boring. The rest of it was the best movie she'd ever seen."

Holy cats, it's the old my-three-year-old-could-do-better ploy!

Thank God for all the diverse voices the Web brings us.

Yeah, numb nuts. That's why she praised Iron Man, Indiana Jones ATKOTCS.

Can you even read?

Do you bother?

Comes this bit of idiocy.

Ha ha! What a kidder!

We all know Glenn never learns anything.

Now THERE"S a genius notion of how to write criticism.

It's official: the morons now run the nut house.

In the movie "Wild in the Streets," people over 30 are put in concentration camps and kept dosed with LSD.

You make it seem like a good idea.

Redshooz,

What makes you think you know how old I am?

it's so much fun to watch blowhards strangle in assumption. Bless you, redkeds, for enlivening my Sunday.

Anyone wanna bet on how soon it will be before Salon runs a rhapsodic piece about Susan Faludi moan in today's NYT about how women are being to told to wait again?

THIS is what damages feminism -- the inability to see the bigger issues in front of you. The pouting, childish sense of disappointment that doesn't see the danger of a McCain presidency.

Grow up.

Coming after weeks of "he's not progressive" blather, that's mighty white of you, Glenn.

the other Jimmy Choo has officially dropped.

That's exactly how she can say Preston Sturges is seemingly forgotten.

Who the fuck told you you were a human being?