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Arab Protest In New York Marred By Gross Spelling Error
Whatever your politics (although it seems obvious in this case), spelling counts! Actual photo of a real Arab protester.
British Guy Thinking About Putting Movie-Like Ratings On Websites
Fat chance of it happening. But just in case, I ran my website through a content-reading thingee, and now I've got my rating already here on the right sidebar.
Vietnam Was “The Television War”; Meet “The YouTube War”
I don't have anything to say about the outbreak of fighting in Israel/Gaza, other than you can put me down in the "Israel's-responsive-was-disproportionate-and-therefore-counterproductive" camp, that the Bush Administration's silence on the issue is (once again) negligent, and the only way this will end (and not escalate) is some serious efforts at diplomacy — and soon. Okay, I guess I do have … Read More
“In Passing” 2008 Roll Call
2008 dead celebrities I really felt kinda bad about upon hearing that they had died: Suzanne Pleshette (died Jan 19 at age 70) Roy Scheider (died Feb 10 at age 75) Paul Scofield (died March 20 at age 86) Sydney Pollack (died May 26 at age 73) Harvey Korman (died May 29 at age 81) Cyd Charisse (died June 17 at age … Read More
GMILF?
Sarah Palin has become a grandmother.
The First Draft Of The Bush Presidency
This Vanity Fair "oral history" is excellent. It goes through key moments of the Bush Administration, and the story is not told through narrative, but rather, through the comments of Bush insiders. Here, for example, are some insider comments about the time when the Bush Administration confronted (well, failed to confront) Katrina: Dan Bartlett, White House communications director and later counselor to the … Read More
Weblog Award Finalists Announced
Full list here. It's a good place to go if you want to be exposed to various well-written blogs that you didn't know existed. Yes, Virginia, there are well-written blogs out there. The blogosphere is much much more than political rants and pictures of peoples' kittens doing the gosh-darn cutest things.
Senator Franken — Finally?
TPM: It's now official that Al Franken is ahead in the Minnesota recount by 50 votes, after the state canvassing board finally approved a spreadsheet of all the ballots that have been counted, recounted and examined again over this very long process. And while it now appears to be almost certain that Franken will defeat GOP Sen. Norm Coleman in … Read More
Real Love Is Fiction
Oprah called it ""the single greatest love story, in 22 years of doing this show, we've ever told on the air." And she made the memoir of the story one of her books-of-the-month. It has been featured on the Hallmark Channel, Lifetime Television, and CBS News. And the story is this: The author, Herman Rosenblat, who is a retired television … Read More
The Final Verdict On Abstinence-Only Sex Education
It doesn't work; in fact, it backfires: The new analysis of data from a large federal survey found that more than half of youths became sexually active before marriage regardless of whether they had taken a "virginity pledge," but that the percentage who took precautions against pregnancy or sexually transmitted diseases was 10 points lower for pledgers than for non-pledgers. … Read More
The U.S. Will End In 2010
I guess that prediction would be laughable if it came from Nostadamus or some modern-day equivalent soothsayer. But the guy who is saying is a respected analyst. Then again, he's Russian: Prof. Panarin, 50 years old, is not a fringe figure. A former KGB analyst, he is dean of the Russian Foreign Ministry's academy for future diplomats. He is invited … Read More
Top 10 Lists
GigaOm’s Top 10 Flash Games of 2008 Videogum’s Top 10 Worst People of 2008nbsp; Popular Mechanics’ Top 10 Gadgets of 2008 Politico’s Top 10 Worst Political Ads of 2008 Epicurious’ Top 10 Food Trends of 2009 Spin’s Top 10 Overlooked Albums of 2008 Salon’s Top 10 Books of 2008 Roger Ebert’s Top 10 Foreign Films of 2008 Time’s Top 10 Magazine Covers of 2008 The New Yorker’s Top 10 … Read More
Yarrow, The Magic Folk Song Writer
So there's this controversy regarding Chip Saltsman, a GOP bigwig who is apparently under consideration for head of the Republican National Committee. Saltsman, you see, sent out a CD to members of the RNC as a Christmas gift. The CD contained spoof political songs, including one played by Rush Limbaugh during the campaign entited "Barack, The Magic Negro". "Barack, The … Read More
One Of The Nice Things About My Holiday…
…was that I didn't pay attention to the news. This Santa Claus killer? Man, I'm dumbstruck.