by Pier Marton | Nov 5, 2012 | Humor, Politics
http://youtu.be/1E8S1H3y9KE And Michael Moore’s Last Minute (TWO) Pleas: Letter to a Non-Voter (Sunday) To my friend who is not voting on Tuesday: I get it – and I don’t blame you. You’re fed up and you could care less whether Tweedledee or...
by Pier Marton | Oct 29, 2012 | Antisemitism, France, History, Jewish, Middle-East, Politics, Racism, Shoah, Wars
… a sizable section of the European left has been reluctant to take a clear stand when anti-Zionism spills over into anti-Semitism… Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of the militant group Hezbollah, famously commented: “If we searched the entire world for a...
by Pier Marton | Oct 27, 2012 | Humor, Media, Politics, Spectacle, Theater
http://youtu.be/5Y0aydhFHNE http://youtu.be/Ju8Ru4Gom0Q http://youtu.be/fCQmaY5H0YQ “Maher used the sexual analogy to say that when you do it (“it” meaning “voting”) with Romney, you’re also doing it with “every right wing nut he’s pandered to. Maher said that...
by Pier Marton | Oct 23, 2012 | Death, Film, Middle-East, Politics, Sound, Spectacle, Wars
After Osama bin Laden’s death comes a big bang revenge spectacle in our theaters and our homes, one more glorious solidification of enmity. Evil incarnate, bring it on? Maybe it is high time to revisit Sam Keen’s Faces of the Enemy (the book and the film)?...
by Pier Marton | Oct 14, 2012 | Humor, Media, Politics, Spectacle, Tech
CHOOSE YOUR METAPHORS chairs, nation building? With one billion Facebook users, it was time to celebrate and create the right ads… Facebook’s official piece (around chairs): A spirited response (around toilet seats): …. adding one of those little...
by Pier Marton | Oct 3, 2012 | France, Humor, Politics, Quotes, Spectacle
His “spreading” technique – by Janet Ritz in Huffington Post & The Environmentalist: Romney’s Debate Technique Mitt Romney’s over the top October 3rd debate performance used a technique in policy debates known as...