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Entries from Austinist tagged with 'secretservice'

February 25, 2008

Travis County DA candidates debate tonight at Dell Jewish Community Center. On Friday when a Secret Service agent wouldn't let a Capitol employee into the building, she got upset and . . . threw a bowl of egg salad at the agent. Man who sold candy to kids at his Austin apartment complex accused of raping two girls 8 years ago. "Scouting ought to be about building character, not about sex": Our own Gov. Perry interviewed in this weekend's NY Times magazine....

Continue Reading "Extra Extra: Using Egg Salad Forcefully"

August 28, 2007

After more than six years with our country hog-tied by George W. Bush and his Texas neo-con cronies, it is not hard to feel a nostalgic pull to the nineties. We may not be longing for rap-rock, JNCO jeans or Pauly Shore, but the roaring nineties and their dot-com excess did have some bright spots. Like a good president. (Though even Warren G. Harding looks pretty good right now.) If you are looking for......

Continue Reading "Bill Clinton Decides Giving is Better Than Receiving."

November 7, 2006

A billowing American flag against a pitch background opens this compelling story of a Seattle grandmother, Bev Harris, who started asking questions after presidential candidate Al Gore managed to get negative votes (-16,022, to be exact) in Volusia County, Florida in 2000. After a media distraction over "hanging chads" and other discrepancies, the overall results in Florida effectively lost the election for Gore. As simplistic as it sounds, Harris made a search engine find......

Continue Reading "How Safe Is Your Vote? HBO’s Hacking Democracy"

July 26, 2006

Kazillionaire* is psycho-pseudosketch duo Madeline Malka and Jeremy Lamb. In this sketch show, they create the Kazillionaire* world - an Earth-like planet created by Mother Earth (Malka) and Father Time (Lamb) - created as a sort of side project to entertain the deities during their courtship. The history of Kazillionaire* and its other-worldly customs is humorously described by a creative use of video clips (ala Discovery channel), voiceover and Eastern hip hop rituals. Portraying most......

Continue Reading "Comedy: Austinist gets up on Kazillionaire*"

May 4, 2005

Long before we had to suffer through the bumbling speeches, disingenuous double talk, war mongering and religious-right pandering of George W. Bush, Americans enjoyed two terms of prosperity under the leadership of one of the smartest, slickest and most controversial presidents of the 20th century. Historians and citizens alike may remember President Bill Clinton for his extraordinary successes, think first president to balance the budget in 30 years, or they may remember him for......

Continue Reading "Big Willie Style"

April 26, 2005

Even though Time magazine went crazy and put up Ann Coulter on the cover, proving you can reside on the far, far left of the genetic bell curve and still make it big, they still, sometimes, resemble a news magazine. Such is the case with a recent article which reports that 4 of the 24 U.S. delegates to the Inter-American Telecommunication Commission meeting in Guatemala City were barred due to their support of John Kerry.......

Continue Reading "Political Retribution from the White House? The Hell You Say!"

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