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MESS O'POTAMIA That's what Jon Stewart dubbed the Iraq war. Can TV's hottest satirist make...
...that even those who liked ?Fahrenhype? and ?Celsius? were obliged to see Moore?s film in order to bury it. The Swift Boat commercials may have brought down John Kerry; the anti-Moore movies simply enriched Moore. As the director realized. The week ?Fahrenheit? opened, he was on Jon Stewart?s ?The Daily Show? and said, ?If there?s any right-wing groups listening tonight, please keep doing this...
...Oscar-winning ?Bowling for Columbine? established the agit-doc tone, which mixes sober condemnation with japish wit. The approach was part ?Democracy Now? (Amy Goodman?s low-rent, high-IQ newscast on radio and TV), part ?The Daily Show,? which since 9/11 has become the Left?s CNN. Jon Stewart has made the President is an easy figure of fun. But the agit-docs aimed to nail Dubya for crimes graver than speaking English as a second language. They viewed Bush and his closest advisors as Pirates of the Constitution, exploiting the national trauma over 9/11 to pursue an impertinent...
...magic," says Betsy Taylor, president of New American Dream, a nonprofit that runs a website called SimplifytheHolidays.org A 2002 survey by Taylor's organization found that 77% of adults polled said they wanted a "more simplified" holiday season. "We went through a period where everything had to be Martha Stewart perfect," Taylor explains, "but now there's a countertrend where people want to spend less time trying to find a parking space at the mall and more time actually enjoying the holiday with loved ones...
Joanne Gonzalez, a suburban Dallas stay-at-home mother and Martha Stewart-- like domestic perfectionist who worries about the darkness or lightness of the toast she serves her two young daughters, starts her days at 5:30 a.m. and ends them ... well, when the stimulants wear off. Immediately after waking, she starts the first of several loads of laundry, sees her husband off to work, fixes breakfast for her kids (she calls them "very high maintenance, very demanding") and then herds them into her Volvo station wagon for a long day of lessons, camps and therapies. At night, she makes...