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Popdose Roundtable: Hail to the Chief

Popdose Staff February 21, 2011 5

If everyone did a "Favorite Movie Presidents" post, would Popdose do it too? Yes, and then we'd jump off a bridge

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Comics Review: “Superman Vs. Muhammad Ali”

Scott Cederlund February 8, 2011 4

Let’s tell it like it is.  Out of all the superheroes, only Superman can say he has gone up against the greatest of all time.  It wasn’t Lex Luthor.  It wasn’t Brainiac or Doomsday.

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Political Culture: In Defense of … ACORN?

Jon Cummings September 24, 2009 10

Glenn Beck scored another pelt for his demagoguery-fur coat this week, when Congress voted to cut all federal funding for the community-organizing group ACORN in the wake of those seedy undercover videos Beck has

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Dw. Dunphy On… “You Lie!”: The Backstory

Dw. Dunphy September 17, 2009 10

The outburst heard ’round the nation, at least until Kanye West co-opted the mike: South Carolina Representative Joe Wilson’s interjection during President Obama’s health care pitch to Congress. A million would-be pundits and chat

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One Day in Your Life: July 15, 1979

J.A. Bartlett July 15, 2009 6

July 15, 1979, was a Sunday. In the Soviet Union, it’s Metallurgist’s Day. With gasoline prices skyrocketing again and his approval rating at 25 percent, President Jimmy Carter delivers a prime-time address in which

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Sugar Water: The Year in Science (Last Year, Not This Year)

Robert Cass January 18, 2009 7

The Associated Press reported last Tuesday that the bicycles of former U.S. president Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, were stolen from inside the Carter Center in Atlanta earlier this month. President Carter responded

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