Somebody on this radio show asked a simple question this week–“why are we considering tax cuts of any size when children are hungry and families are homeless?” Good question. (N.B. that person was Barbara Weinstein, Legislative Director of the Religious Action Center for Reform Judaism). Hey! Another treaty the Bushies don’t like! “The United States …
My brother-in-law just got back from Vegas; he always brings me a baseball cap, and this time was no exception. However, this time it was a sort which is pure anathema to a Dodgers fan; he stopped over at SFO and got…a GIANTS cap! Good grief, man! This is the West Coast equivalent of giving …
In case you missed it, a federal court ruled the other day that music file-sharing through Grokster and Morpheus does not entail copyright infringement. And yes, Batty, the pithy snowflake saying will be gone shortly. (She did a drive-by decorating critique yesterday).
We may have been unable to protect tablets containing missing pieces of the Gilgamesh epic. But somehow we did manage to secure the lavish homes of Saddam’s hierarchy, where the cultural gems ranged from videos of old James Bond movies to the collected novels of Danielle Steel. That’s Frank Rich in the NYT today. The …
Andy in the comments pointed me towards this site; it works with the GeoURL meme from a while back. Let the site owner explain it: Real time & updating display of weblog postings, around the world How? Weblogs.com + geocoding + RSS Is it really real-time? Nearly:). Weblogs.com updates about once per minute. the geo-blog …
Ladies and gentlemen, we went to war to get rid of Saddam Hussein and his weapons of mass destruction, right? Well,
The Super Bowl/Olympics of hula is going on this week in Hilo. That would be the Merrie Monarch Festival, of course. There’s more useful information about this “chicken-skin” event here. My goodness, in that list of magazines I forgot National Geographic. How could I have forgotten all those yellow borders? Here’s a first-person account of …
More news from the business magazines: are you ready for The Apprentice? It’s a new television reality show, pitting new MBA grads against “street-smart” folk with no formal biz education. Shooting starts September 14. Go to the website at NBC and sign up now! Venture Capital/Blogging news: Ben and Mena Trott (yay, MT!) finally have …
Over the years I’ve subscribed to a whole slew of magazines, including, in no particular order, Boy’s Life, Baseball Digest, The Sporting News, Sports Illustrated, Business Week, ComputerWorld, Forbes, Rolling Stone, Time, Newsweek, US News and World Report, Harpers, The Atlantic, and Fortune. A few years back I let the Forbes, Fortune and Business Week …
Tax cuts or social needs? Medicare and Medicaid cuts, teacher layoffs, library shutdowns; Missouri, for crying out loud, has resorted to turning off every third light bulb in government buildings. Yet Mr. Bush would rather cut taxes than help fund states (and the people who live there). Click on the “Multimedia” graphic to see how …