Articles Written By Meave Gallagher
TMN Editor Meave Gallagher lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is a co-founder of Vegansaurus, and maintains comfortably low ambitions.
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Wasilla City Council: A Reading
"Can't we just say it was everybody plus Linda?" A dramatic reading of a transcript of a Wasilla, Alaska City Council, by actor Chris Schneider. What's most remarkable about this...
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Tippecanoe and Tyler, Too!
In the 1840 presidential campaign, William Henry Harrison and John Tyler of the Whig party ran against Democratic party founder and President Martin Van Buren (our first president born a U...
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Anyone Else but You
First lady of France Carla Bruni and Nouvelle Star 2007 winner Julien Doré sang the Moldy Peaches' "Anyone Else But You," a.k.a. the ultimate love song for the socially...
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Nailing It
I know that the whole world fell in love all over again with Tina Fey and her Sarah Palin sketches on Saturday Night Live the past two weeks. Of course...
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Kucinich for the Win
Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) is my favorite congressional representative. He's intelligent and thoughtful, he's vegan, and he doesn't seem to have ever compromised his integrity during all his years in politics....
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SnagFilms
SnagFilms provides a wonderful service: it is “a web site where you can watch full-length documentary films for free.” The site hosts big famous docs, like Super Size Me, and...
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Mexican Breakfast
About a year ago, a clip of Gwen Verdon, star of stage and screen, dancing Bob Fosse’s three-and-a-half-minute “Mexican Breakfast” routine to the tune of Unk’s “Walk It...
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Target: Women
Do you watch Current.com’s media-mocking show, Infomania? You could call it The Daily Show’s younger sibling: The humor is goofier, the tone is lighter, and the subjects...
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Video Digest: June 27, 2008
June is the gayest time of the year, thanks to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (L.G.B.T.) pride celebrations happening throughout the month. This June is extra-special because...
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Video Digest: June 13, 2008
When the need arises to indulge in the felicity of unbounded domesticity, not everyone is up to the task. Some of us weren’t raised by kings and/or queens...
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Video Digest: June 6, 2008
Identity theft has become a crime epidemic—so how is it that 10 years ago, the phrase had yet to be coined? The internet and the rise of online banking are...
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Video Digest: May 30, 2008
The economic outlook’s been pretty bleak this year, what with the tanking housing market and the mess it made on Wall Street, and ordinary Americans are losing their jobs....