Filed under: government, politics | Tags: geithner, hillary clinton, maddow, obama, treasury
The best one-liner of the day–a funny stab at the Bush administration–comes from The Economist in this article praising President-Elect Obama’s nomination of New York Fed president Timothy Geithner as Treasury secretary. After eight years of failed policies that got us into this economic mess, Geithner represents strong international experience, working with economies in Brazil and Thailand, for example, more than “any other policymaker in office today.”
In contrast to the Treasury secretary appointment, however, comes a note of irony from Rachel Maddow on The Conan O’Brien Show, when she points out that Hillary Clinton’s appointment to Secretary of State may not exactly represent the change that Obama hoped for (I love Rachel Maddow, and not only because we own the similar black glasses).
Filed under: film, politics | Tags: franco, harvey milk, homophobia, letterman
James Franco, gracious actor that he is, fends off the homophobia of David Letterman in this clip from Friday night’s show in which he’s publicizing Gus Van Sant’s Milk. Letterman keeps harping on Franco’s kiss with Sean Penn; it’s almost as if he wants Franco to claim that kissing another man was equal to the task of building an atomic bomb.
Later in the interview, after Letterman’s third attempt to solicit a homophobic remark, Franco offers him a man-on-man kiss. Reminds me of the discussions I had last week in my lit class, in which the strongest response of my (male) students was that it was “courageous” of the male actors to kiss on stage.
