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When I worked in Residence Life at Georgetown University, one of the resident assitants (R.A.’s) on my staff was a young, beautiful Muslim woman who always wore a head scarf and whose clothes extended to her wrists and ankles. Her fashion sense was stunning, and each time I saw her I was amazed by her…

We’ve all waxed poetic about Imus, his apology and his punishment, but now it’s time to get down to business. This isn’t about the shocking nature of Imus’s comment–whether it is racist or sexist–it is about morality. During one of his apologies, Imus said he knew the phrase he used came from the black community.…

Don Imus was fired–and I think it’s a travesty. I don’t have the same point of view as my esteemed Idol Chatter colleague Nicole Symmonds, who wrote that “you couldn’t have said a more racially-charged comment,” and “the apology is not accepted.” Writing before Mr. Imus was fired, she called for his show to be…

The question, to me, is not whether Imus should have been fired for his comments about the Rutgers women’s basketball players; it’s why he was fired for these comments in particular–or rather, why he, and countless other shock-jocks like him, weren’t fired sooner for any number of other immoral comments and “jokes.” Let’s be clear:…

Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue … something Hindu? Liz Hurley, the one-time face of Estee Lauder, and Arun Nayar’s Hindu wedding has already stirred controversy amongst Hindu traditionalists for being performed after the London-based Christian rite, but one Indian man is taking it one step further. According to Access Hollywood, via MSNBC.com,…

Author Kurt Vonnegut, the man best known for writing the dark, satirical novel “Slaughterhouse Five” died Wednesday at 84, leaving behind a literary legacy founded on a restless angst in search of truth. His novels and essays never stopped attacking the flaws and hypocrisies of societal institutions in all shapes and forms. His works always,…

After several posts right here on Idol Chatter in the last few months begging and pleading for Chatter readers to watch the small town drama “Friday Night Lights,” it seems NBC has finally listened to me–and you. The good news is that NBC has renewed “Lights” for at least six episodes next fall, and I…

Audiences will either find director Philip Gröning’s “Into Great Silence“—an almost three hour film chronicling the silent lives of the Carthusian monks at Grande Chartreuse, a stunning but austere monastery perched high up in the French Alps–a masterpiece or the most boring movie they ever saw. Like the days and nights of this tiny group…

Two of my favorite things are spirituality and kitsch. That’s why I love coming across something like the Choose Your Religion Wheel. It’s a brightly colored cardboard wheel with different religions written around the outside. Pointing the dial on a religion provides you with a basic description plus information on “Potential New Friends” (membership), “Drawbacks,”…

On the April 4th edition of MSNBC’s “Imus In the Morning,” Don Imus fired the shot heard ’round the world when he called the Rutger’s women’s basketball team “Nappy-Headed Ho’s.” He laughed after he said it, and if you listen very closely you can hear someone else in the background laughing. It was comedy for…
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