Tag Archive 'Michael Moore'

The Sickening

A Cuban medical office with a sign reading “No prescriptions available.” Photo by: Dr. Darsi Ferrer [via The Real Cuba].
News of Fidel Castro’s retirement has elicited some interesting responses. Chris Bertram’s has to be one of the most arrogant and least informed:
So let’s hear it for universal literacy and decent standards of health [...]

The New Media Zombie Apocalypse

image: Dead Central (see alternate posters at ZNN)
George Romero is evidently taking on the dynamics of social networking and new media culture, in his latest apocalyptic zombie film Diary of the Dead. George, in an interview for the AP:
“If Hitler were alive today, he wouldn’t have to stand out in that square. He could just [...]