Lisa Derrick

One business in Westwood, the area of Los Angeles adjacent to UCLA, wants customers to know that their money will be well spent:
Gift Cards for Holiday Season At
Scrubs Unlimited are Safe
*We Did Not Apply for Government Bailout
*No Multi Million $ Bonuses Given
*We Do Not Even Own A Private Jet

[photo Tamara Struminger [...]

Historical revisionism is part of Hollywood’s toolkit. Social commentators Maron V Seder bring you their twisted versions of what soon could be appearing in your megaplex.

On Friday December 19, the Interior Department will hold an auction of pristine Utah wilderness to oil and gas companies for exploration and drilling. Robert Redford joined members of Congress–lead by Congressmen Baird (D-WA), Hinchey (D-NY), and Holt (D-NJ)–and a coalition of environmental, preservation and business groups to stop the auctions. 
Friday’s sale would include [...]

Old Spice, a manly man’s cologne marketed by Proctor and Gamble, has named its Art of Manliness 2008 Man of the Year: Matthew Chancey.
Matthew Chancey is part of Vision Forum Ministries, a fundamentalist branch of Christianity which states that:
we recognize that the family—and especially fathers—are the focus of a fierce and unrelenting attack [...]

Hotel rooms are averaging about $650 a night with a three night minimum stay.  Airfare is stupid money. It’s freakin’ cold. And Rick Warren (ugh) is delivering the invocation–though I suspect, or at least hope, that Obama is hip to the Very Scary Pastor and doesn’t actually LIKE him or buy into his anti-science, ant-gay, [...]

Tons of talent will be performing at the Obama Inaug, which will feature a new composition by John Williams performed by Itzhak Perlman on violin, Yo-Yo Ma on cello, Gabriela Montero on piano and Anthony McGill on clarinet.
The United States Marine Band will play, followed by the San Francisco Boys Chorus and the San Francisco [...]

Rick Warren of Saddleback Church has been tapped by Obama to give the inaugural invocation. WTF? Rick Warren? He’s basically James Dobson in Dr Phil’s goatee. In 2004 Warren declared that marriage, reproductive choice, and stem cell research were "non-negotiable" issues of Christian voters, yet those things were part of Obama’s platform!
Here’s what Rick Warren had [...]

Okay, it was pretty much a given that Obama would be Time Magazine’s Person of the Year. What is truly awesome is seeing Shepard Fairey’s iconic Obama portrait on newsstands as the Time cover.
Fairey’s art developed out of street and skate culture, and he sits on the board of Reaching to Embrace the Arts, a [...]

Whoa–Today on The View in a conversation with Melissa Etheridge about Prop 8 and civil marriage rights, conservative pin up girl Elisabeth Hasselbeck almost admitted she supports civil marriage rights. Right after Melissa brings up Thomas Jefferson’s writings about how the rights of minorities should not be decided by the majority, and how her own [...]

Oh, come on, you know you and your politically savvy pals have an Administration Fantasy League pool going! Here’s a little tool to help handicap–or to find a new job, since all across the nation,  would-be political types are DC-dreamin’.
Dal LaMagna, founder of Executive Branch Online–and the man behind another handy tool, Tweezerman–has spent [...]