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A trove of more than 90 thousand documents released by the self-proclaimed whistle-blower Wikileaks offers a grim picture of the latest US foray into the Middle East - one that senior White House officials knew would likely end up in failure: Sex and the City 2.

Over the last several days the reviews for Sex and the City 2 have been rolling in, and not surprisingly they have been scathing with a side of mean. I stopped reading them when I saw the word “leathery” describe the women’s skin. I actually think that people really get off on beating up on this film, and I can’t decide whether it’s because a gay man has made a pretty gay film that is for women, or because the film is for and about women that’s going to make a ton of money and no one gives a shit if a single straight guy goes and sees it.

The following is most definitely NOT a transcript of President Obama’s monologue before the White House Correspondents Dinner Saturday night… Do we have any folks from Arizona here? Let me see your papers. *** Where’s Carl Levin? Carl. Who do you think you are…..Rahm? I guess I’ve got to teach you what I tell my kids. The “s” word’s a bad word. You just can’t go around using it in public. Use different words.

Twitter is so many things to so many people: infomercial, backyard fence, brain dump. The funny, famous, famous for the wrong reasons or simply very useful have thousands of followers, but who do THEY follow? Deposed “Tonight Show” star Conan O’Brien follows only one person, LovelyButton, a seemingly nice and happy 19-year-old named Sarah Killen in rural Michigan.

My favorites of the Our Gang short films of 75 and 80 years ago (back when “gang” was an innocent term), were the ones where Spanky McFarland became a 9 year-old Ziegfeld, and staged big shows full of all-kid casts on make-shift stages.

Cross-posted with TomDispatch.com . For Isaac Francisco Solnit, born December 17, 2009 It’s clear now that, from her immoveable titanium bangs to her chaotic approximation of human speech, Sarah Palin is a Terminator cyborg sent from the future to destroy something — but what? It could be the Republican Party she’ll ravage by herding the fundamentalists and extremists into a place where sane fiscal conservatives and swing voters can’t follow.

Crossposted and updated from an article on OpEdNews.com Use Hashtags For Greater Twitter Success Here’s a Twitter tip: You can easily use hashtags to reach many more people and build your follower base faster. Say you’ve just started with Twitter. You have under 1000, even under 50 followers. You may ask yourself, “Why bother tweeting to so few people?” And you’re right. By using hashtags, you can change all that and reach a massively larger audience than your small following. Here’s why.

It’s hard to see Food, Inc. and not be inspired. Okay, so most people might not be selling their house and quitting their office job to become full time farmers, but the movie certainly inspires people to change something in their lives. There’s a lot of super simple but highly effective things you can do to transition off of a corn-based diet, lessen your carb(on) food/footprint, support local farmers and choose humanely raised meats.

There is something absolutely bizarre and troubling going on in the political netherworld of Sarah and Todd Palin, Greta Van Susteren and her wannabe-queen-maker hubby, John Coale.

When Crash won the Oscar for best picture, I was half-drunk at a party in Seattle but sobered up quickly. I had to. I’d promised my editor at MSNBC that if the unthinkable did happen, if Crash won best picture that night over Brokeback Mountain , I’d write a piece about it . I finished it at 10 a.m. the next morning. It included diatribe, head-shaking and a quiz. It included everything but a culprit. Now we have one. In the Jan.