Fair Trade Goes Chic: An Interview with One Thread Fair Trade’s Founder
July 10, 2009 – 9:21 pm | No Comment

A brief look into Mayura Kona’s start-up company would give Karl Marx goosebumps of excitement. Marx had predicted exactly how our attitudes and behavior around consumption would be affected from the dramatic mass-production shift circa …

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U.S. House to Apologize for Slavery, Jim Crow
July 31, 2008 – 3:29 pm | No Comment

As taken directly from CNN: My response is at the end.
WASHINGTON (CNN) — The House of Representatives on Tuesday passed a resolution apologizing to African-Americans for slavery and the era of Jim Crow.

The nonbinding resolution, …

No Fake Boobs, Please: Keira Knightley Refuses Breast Enhancement for “The Dutchess” Ads
July 29, 2008 – 6:23 am | No Comment

According to the Huffington Post, Keira Knightley refused to enhance the size of her breasts in advertising and marketing images for the film The Dutchess. Apparently, this is not the first time Hollywood has taken …

Natalie Portman Goes Bollywood on Acid in “Carmensita”
July 27, 2008 – 9:25 pm | 2 Comments

Natalie Portman–along with beau Devendra Banhart–star in his music video “Carmensita,” heavily inspired from Mahabharata and Ramayana, classic Indian Epics–some of the oldest in the world. I think they did a good job with the …

Long Live Janet Jackson’s Nipples: Janet and CBS relieved of FCC fine
July 24, 2008 – 8:04 am | 4 Comments

For those of you who forgot, let me bring back a pleasant, yet unusually controversial incident. Janet Jackson. “Wardrobe malfunction.” Starry nipples. Need I say more?
Yes, we’re talking about the 2004 Superbowl–specifically when Janet Jackson …