Cenk and Ana hosting. Update on the Cologne attack with reports of vigilante attacks towards Muslims. Pope Benedict’s brother ran a camp/school for boys, many kinds of assaults and abuse occurred. Sean Penn interviewed El Chapo in a jungle for Rolling Stone. Sean Penn got this interview because El Chapo and Sean Penn shared a mutual friend. Sean Penn and Rolling Stone are being ridiculed by other journalists.
David Bowie has passed away at 69 after 18 months of fighting cancer. In a 1982 MTV interview, Bowie questioned why there black artists were not getting airtime on MTV. Police apologize to a rapper after pointing a gun to his head. He withdraw large amounts of money out of his bank account to buy a car. A German inventor created birth control for men. The invention has a switcher to prevent sperm flow.
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I love Ana discussing journalistic esthetics. As if she is a journalist.
It’s amazing to me how I can agree with Cenk on almost everything politically, but when it comes to anything related to the arts or music — such as his comments about David Bowie’s music — we seem to have almost nothing in common.
Cenk has zero appreciation for art. He’s too pragmatic. Things have to have AN answer. They can’t just be left up to interpretation, and if he doesn’t get what an artist is doing or saying, he gets mad at it.
Also, Ana, you wonder why these attacks occur against muslims, yet you say things like “Muslims are more likely to be rapists because of their culture” – how can you then wonder when you’re participating & encouraging the haters?
If you look into the statistics, rape is Muslims majority countries vs rape in the west, you’ll see how incorrect your statements were. Very easy to find out.
Wonderful screen graphics during breaks.. Glad to see the changes lately.
Thanks to the Turk responsible~!
Some of us notice and appreciate.
Upaya
I don’t know, the ball switch seems to be a long-term thing. So I don’t really get the issue with the jerking-off part – since when it is such a big problem for guys to jerk-off? :-) I don’t think that you only turn-off the sperm when you wanna have sex and then turn it on immediately afterwards. I think it’s more like you get the switch at a certain age, it’s turned-off all the time and only if you wanna have children you turn it on again. It could be that it feels strange, but I don’t even know how big it is, or what consequences it really has / how inconvenient it really is. Overall, I don’t think jerking-off 30 times is a bigger burden than taking in hormones all the time for huge chunks of your life… just my 2 cents
Ana, you despising Islam is proof that you haven’t read the Koran. My only point is, if you’re going to add to the sam harris style merchandising of hate, you should at least make sure you believe in what you believe for the right reasons, and read at least parts of the holy book before accessorizing anti-islamic speech like some new liberal fashion statement.
Yeah, no fan of Islam either, or any religion, but I’ve read both books & there is more good than bad in each.
On the ball switch:
No. What guy is going to pay to make it necessary to jack 30 before sex to avoid pregnancy & then on top of it have a sleepless orgasm? Are no fluids ejaculated? Air? Blood because you just jacked 30 times already? Please, no. God no… Oh God, no.
*Jack 30x
*spermless not sleepless
Damn you autocorrect. Damn you.
Sleepless sex does sound tiring after 30 ejaculations :)
Lol Yeah. I’m exhausted just thinking about it.
my balls were in pain throughout the whole story, and my face had scrunched up and was wrinkled as much as my ball sack!
I feel your pain. I had a similar reaction. I mean I am 36 but 30x just to get to the act?
As for the gay issue, if you listen to most of his lyrics on the subject, they’re mostly about cheating on your gay boyfriend with a girl heh. Like John, I’m Only Dancing or Suffragette City.
Good damn brilliantly soft-spoken interview by Bowie. How amazingly polite at being progressive.
“Fame” was Bowie’s breaking hit? How about that happened relatively late in his career, ha ha.
How to sum up Bowie? To me, most interestingly, Bowie was broke when his rock career was at its height. Got fucked by his manager, long story short. And yet, right after that, he could have cashed in and done the same shit. But he said nope, rock is dead, and he made 3 weird rock art albums with Brian Eno in Berlin. I know Cenk doesn’t get art, but he should understand that it takes balls to make art when you’re in the music industry.
Bowie also produced and did backup vocals on amazing albums like Lou Reed’s Transformer and Iggy Pop’s :Lust for Life and The Idiot, so really a wide range of the best albums of that era. Was essential in revitalizing those musicians’ careers and for their current place in rock history. And of course the rumors that his creative influence was in fact much greater on these albums seems reasonable, considering that neither artist ever put out anything even close to these albums in their later careers — as much as I like both.
In the ’90s, when he could have coasted forever on his old hits, he decided to stop playing his old hits at concerts and announced he’d only be playing the newer music and didn’t want to be some fogey cover band. And yet he did one final tour of the old hits for fans where he played the songs each city requested before he left the old works behind.
Bowie has so many amazing albums it is a crime Cenk has not listened to! Ziggy Stardust, The Man Who Sold The World (see, money in politics!), Aladdin Sane, Station to Station all absolute classics almost 100% great songs. And listen to albums like Low, Lodger, and Scary Monsters and say that for the years these came out he wasn’t vastly ahead of his time.
Seriously though, watch the movie Ziggy Stardust, the live concert footage. You have never seen fans so full of love, or a rock performer who has studied his stagecraft and performance as well. He fully incorperates the mime into the rock while wearing a kimono, fucking awesome live show!
I hope his alleged collaboration with Gorillaz got recorded before his death…