Ahem. To all the otherwise-talented writers in the blogosphere: People are unfazed by setbacks, not unphased (unless they’re characters on Star Trek). Likewise, the operator of a restaurant is a restaurateur, not a restauranteur. If you’re not winning and it’s not a tie, you’re losing, not loosing. I know I’m probably swimming against the tide …
Blurb: The time of reckoning has begun when Daniel Faraday comes clean regarding what he knows about the island. Ryan Jon Alan Sepinwall
Hmph. I just got a call from a market research company asking to do a survey about radio listening habits. First question: “Are there any young males aged 18-34 available?” My response: “Nope.” His next question: “Will there be any available later?” My response: “Nope.” “Have a nice day,” he said. I listen to the …
If your exposure to time-travel is limited to “Lost” and “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court,” you really have to read To Say Nothing of the Dog. Here’s the publisher’s blurb: Ned Henry is badly in need of a rest. He’s been shuttling between the 21st century and the 1940s searching for a Victorian …
By now you’ve all seen the news: Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania is switching parties from Republican to Democrat. There’ll be lots of cheering from our side because it gets the Democrats close to the 60-vote filibuster-blocking threshold in the Senate once Norm Coleman finally gives up in Minnesota. Pardon me if my applause is …
Via Greenwald comes a pointer to this article by Jon Meacham, Newsweek’s Editor, in which he says the following: to pursue criminal charges against officials at the highest levels?including the former president and the former vice president?would set a terrible precedent. [snip] That is not to say presidents and vice presidents are always above the …
With a possible flu epidemic looming, wouldn’t it be nice if the federal Department of Health and Human Services had a leader? Oh, sorry. I forgot that the nominee’s position on abortion is more important than the potential disaster a major flu outbreak might create. Who will rid us of these troublesome radicals?
As of 10:50am HST Sunday, Google News has 13,619 stories about swine flu. That’s a lot to try to digest. If you’re looking for blogosphere commentary on the subject, Effect Measure at the Science Blogs network is written by public health professionals who have some knowledge of epidemiology.
Jon Weisman of Dodger Thoughts and Alyssa Milano of *touch* ’em all will be interviewing one another at the LA Festival of Books on CSPAN2 very shortly. Each has a book out: Jon’s is 100 Things Dodgers Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die, and Alyssa’s is Safe at Home: Confessions of a Baseball …
Via Edge of the West, an anti-torture music video using the text of the memos as lyrics.