When the photos of Private Lynndie England of the 372nd Military Police Company at Abu Ghraib in Baghdad, abusing and humiliating prisoners came to light in 2003, I gleefully and instantly used her name as a punchline. As a writer and a comedian, I did my part in securing her name in pop culture. I […]
Entries from April 2009
I Think I Owe Lynndie England an Apology
April 29th, 2009 · No Comments
Tags: Political Dribble · Hey Look, I'm a Writer
Pasadena Weekly Piece - We’ve Captured That Woman!
April 16th, 2009 · No Comments
Babies & Bibles
At Glendale’s Avenues Pregnancy Clinic, women go in for a pregnancy test and come out fearing eternal damnation
By Tina Dupuy […]
Hey, Tax Day Tea Parties — your ‘grassroots movement’ can’t have corporate media sponsorship
April 13th, 2009 · No Comments
The ’silent majority’ has to shut up. No seriously, they do. In order to be a silent majority they have to first - wait for it - be silent about something. And the current group that claims this title while planning and touting a “FNC Tax Day Tea Parties” or Tax Day Tea Party, is […]
Tags: Political Dribble · Hey Look, I'm a Writer
LA Weekly and the Octomom
April 2nd, 2009 · No Comments
Octomom as Reproductive Lightning Rod
Do the prolife and prochoice sides in L.A. finally agree on something?
By Tina Dupuy
Published on April 01, 2009 at 7:03pm
Nadya Suleman is our local, single, unemployed, plastic surgery–enhanced welfare mother of 14, many of them “special-needs” children. Her story is straight out of Brothers Grimm, and by now the world knows […]
Tags: Hey Look, I'm a Writer
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