Word: superealism
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Actually, $15,000 is a lowball estimate, since that would barely cover the event-space rental tab for the kind of lavish spectacles that have become prime-time fare on MTV's highly rated My Super Sweet 16. The show documents the excesses of privileged youths commemorating the mighty achievement of making it through their 16th year. Shell-shocked parents--always uttering the mantra "It was worth it"--typically peel off checks for upwards of $200,000. We learn that from the Sun Belt to Erie, Pa., the lack of taste knows no ethnic, religious or cultural bounds. You give...
...while lambasting the current resolution for its lenient admission procedures. John R. Bolton, the U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., sharply criticized the newly established Human Rights Council, calling it only marginally better than its predecessor. The U.S. proposal, unlike the one that passed, required member nations to garner a super majority of the vote rather than a simple majority in order to win a seat on the council. The more stringent standard was meant to prevent countries like Iran and Sudan—notorious for their gross violations of human rights—from gaining membership, as they had been...
It’s about time the Rolling Stones played in China; according to the Associated Press, the biggest musical event in that nation last year was “a televised ‘American Idol’-style song contest, Mongolian Cow Sour Yogurt Super Girl.” I am not making this...
...this the last gasp of a dying generation of anti-rock philistines? Hardly. As recently as this year’s Super Bowl halftime show, NFL planners arranged with the Stones beforehand to mute their microphones on “inappropriate” parts of their hits “Rough Justice” and “Start Me Up.” After inadvertently glimpsing part of a grown woman’s nipple two years ago, this country wasn’t taking any chances...
...sometimes find myself staring at these guys and hoping they’ll tip me off to some super-secret inside tip about what I need to do to play at the next level. Two days ago, while I was sitting at the Indians’ preseason finale against the Cincinnati Reds, I again found my mind drifting to the oft-asked topic of what separates the big leaguers from those who are destined to toil and fizzle out in the minors...