I Like to Watch
This fall's TV season comes in like a BBQ Pork Ravioli Bite and goes out like a bad case of indigestion, from Fox's "Fringe" to CBS's "The Mentalist"
Sunday, Sept. 07, 2008
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McCain and Palin go to Dobsonville
Fresh from the GOP convention, John McCain brings his Christian fundamentalist running mate to Christian fundamentalist headquarters -- but doesn't mention abortion or gay marriage
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Palin watch
Day 9, and still no interviews
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Opus
Where do you want to be at the end? Choose wisely!
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I Like to Watch
This fall's TV season comes in like a BBQ Pork Ravioli Bite and goes out like a bad case of indigestion, from Fox's "Fringe" to CBS's "The Mentalist"
Saturday, Sept. 06, 2008
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The mighty, scary press corps
Journalists convince themselves that Sarah Palin is afraid to face their aggressive, adversarial questioning
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Love and marriage
At the Toronto Film Festival, Jonathan Demme returns to form and Peter Sollett explores mix-tape romance
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And the Buffy goes to ...
Our fifth annual award to the most underappreciated show in all of TV land
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Critics' Picks
What you need to see, read, do this week: A sexpert's look at Sarah Palin, the exhilarating return of "Entourage," and a bad-cake blog
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Confessions of an RNC security guard
From sushi-scarfing Secret Servicemen to drunken Sarah-Palin lust, witness the underside of the Republican shindig
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A lovable pervert at your window
Weekend roundup: The noble peeping Tom hero of "Mister Foe," Truffaut's delectable Parisian noir "Shoot the Piano Player" and more
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We need to be tough on Palin
Joan Walsh on the many reasons to scrutinize the V.P. candidate
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Britain to ban sexist ads?
That's what the media implies, but sexism isn't dead just yet
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Letters of the week
Readers reflect on Cindy McCain's wardrobe, genre snobbery, human suffering and more
Friday, Sept. 05, 2008
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Sarah Palin's pastor problem
Move over Jeremiah Wright
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Republicans, stop calling Obama elitist
Because the real reason you don't like him is that he's smarter than you
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A Chinese conspiracy theory
Some Chinese think the U.S. purposely duped China into buying bad Treasury bonds. But that's giving the U.S. too much credit
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NFL Week 1 picks
The season's here! And it can only get better after that dog of an opener Thursday night
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John McCain's empty speech
Simply saying the word "change" a lot isn't enough. What did McCain offer people that was really new?
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Toronto Film Festival
The Venice Film Festival takes risks while Toronto promises gems like Claire Denis' "35 rhums," an intimate movie about the pleasures of home -- and knowing when to leave it
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John McCain, Republican top gun at last
The "imperfect" war hero steered clear of George W. Bush as he took aim at Barack Obama and tried to marshal his tarnished party
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McCain to Obama: Do as I say, not as I do
John McCain disapproves of contests of personality and style -- unless he thinks he can win them
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Reality shows we'd like to see
Attention, reality-TV programmers: "I'm From Sky Mall" and "Hangover CSI" -- you're gonna love them!
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A comedy tonight? Good luck!
Learn more about the fall TV season's new comedies, using this handy clip 'n' save chart!
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So much misery, so little time
Peter Trachtenberg took a tour around the world in his quest to understand why some people are crushed by suffering and others are transformed by it
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Ask the pilot
The gut-churning trials and tribulations of making the grade with an airline
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Since you asked ...
Alone in South Africa with a drunken husband
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Sarah Palin's choice
I greatly admire her decision to have a child with Down syndrome. But she would likely deny other women the right to choose for themselves
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WayLay
In her journey through the afterlife, Jill stops over in the limbo room
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Sarah Palin's real soul mate
McCain's veep choice is the reincarnation of George W. Bush, as channeled by Karl Rove
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Quiz: Palin or Bush?
See if you know your hockey mom from your Dubya
Thursday, Sept. 04, 2008
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Kwame Kilpatrick exits, with Barack Obama holding the door
With the presidential race in Michigan too close for comfort, it can only help Obama that Detroit's racially divisive and felonious mayor has finally lost his job
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McCain's big running-mate rollout
Romney and Giuliani helped supply Wednesday night's "paranoid" conservative politics, while Sarah Palin showed she's no Dick Cheney
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Democrats behind enemy lines in Minnesota
The Obama campaign sets up shop at the Republican National Convention, but thanks to Sarah Palin the GOP is handling all the negative messaging itself
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Television's foreign affair
Shows based on international hits are flooding the fall lineup. Has the U.S. TV industry run out of fresh ideas?
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How to build a vast left-wing conspiracy
The man behind Daily Kos talks about Obama's chances, his new book and why Palin is the gift that keeps on giving
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Since you asked ...
My husband cannot handle all my traveling -- it makes him jealous
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Making "The Fly" sing
Hollywood composer Howard Shore talks about turning a cult horror film into a highbrow opera -- a Salon podcast
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TV without borders
A guide to classic American shows born overseas
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Tom the Dancing Bug
More in the saga of Doug, an unremarkable character
Wednesday, Sept. 03, 2008
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My convention is bigger than your convention
Ron Paul draws more people and more excitement than John McCain's show across town -- but he also attracts some scary "old friends"
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Welcome to John McCain's party
President Bush is beamed in from afar and Joe Lieberman cheerleads for Sarah Palin, as the Republicans press ahead with a baffling convention
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Vampires that don't suck
Alan Ball explains that the undead in his new HBO series don't just embody our deepest sexual yearnings -- they represent both gays and the Bush administration
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TV rehab
There are shows we love even when they don't love themselves. For them, Salon staffers stage an intervention
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McCain: No, really, we vetted her!
As revelations about Sarah Palin mount, the McCain team scrambles to dispel reports that they didn't know what they were getting into
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Eye of the storm
As Gustav approached, New Orleans hospital workers swore they wouldn't repeat the mistakes of Katrina -- and they were right
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Since you asked ...
I can't get to work on time no matter what
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Who wants to see Sarah Palin as the next president?
The Republicans are meeting down the hill from my house. What are they trying to say?
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The K Chronicles
If gym equipment can be used to generate electricity, just think what L.A. could contribute!
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McCain and Palin go to Dobsonville
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Confessions of an RNC security guard
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Critics' Picks: A sexpert on Sarah Palin, Primo Levi, Erroll Morris
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Press corps convinced Palin is afraid to face them. If only
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