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...league is using a tool beyond beer to connect with its fans: Twitter. During Sunday's inaugural game between the Freedom and the Los Angeles Sol (the Tinsletown team features Brazilian phenom Marta, the top female player in the world), one reserve player from each team will blast their 140-character-or-less observations over the web. Antonucci isn't sure if the league's coaches will sanction player "tweets" during every game. "The question is how far do you push the medium without disrupting the integrity of the game," she says. "We're a major league...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Women's Pro Soccer Really Coming Back Now? | 3/29/2009 | See Source »

Commando is a movie-industry manifestation of Reagan era jingoism. The capitalists in Tinsletown want to cash in on the rising tide of cultural bias. Thus, the emerging genre of movies that are cinematic representations of the ultra-conservative Id. This new genre usually features an actor such as Schwarzenegger, Stallone or some other symbol of the American y-chromosome bounding about blasting anyone with an accent or a darker skin tone. Commando is such a byproduct of political isolationism and flat-out hate...

Author: By Christopher J. Farley, | Title: Bang, Bang | 11/8/1985 | See Source »

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