The White House is claiming that oops, they managed to lose a whole bunch of critically important emails, but as any decent techie knows, deleted emails aren’t really deleted. Someone better sit poor Karl Rove down and explain to him about file recovery utilities. Speaking of recovering things thought lost forever — scientists have recovered […]
Entries Tagged as 'News'
News Roundup: Dinosaur Dig Edition
April 13th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Apple, Business, Comedy, Culture, Feminism, Hate Crimes, Health, Human Rights, LGBT, Music, Nature, New Wave, News, Politics, Science, Software, TV
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Kurt Vonnegut, Home at Last
April 12th, 2007 · 3 Comments · Books, Culture, Journal, LGBT, Lit, News, Science Fiction
Kurt Vonnegut is dead. Today the world is a little less kind than it was yesterday. American literary idol Kurt Vonnegut, best known for such classic novels as “Slaughterhouse-Five” and “Cat’s Cradle,” died on Tuesday night in Manhattan at age 84, The New York Times reported on Wednesday. Longtime family friend, Morgan Entrekin, who reported […]
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The Invisible Front Runner in the Living Room
April 11th, 2007 · 2 Comments · LGBT, Media, News, Politics
Despite the ongoing media narrative that the race for the 2008 Democratic nomination is a two-person race between Hillary and Obama, the latest Rassmussen poll shows Edwards beating every single Republican contender by at least six points. Let me say that again. John Edwards currently beats all Republican contenders by at least six points in […]
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30 Rock Is Finally Starting To
April 11th, 2007 · 3 Comments · Comedy, Culture, News, TV
It’s interesting that 30 Rock seems to have pulled off a dark horse victory over Studio 60 as the backstage-at-SNL show that’s most likely to survive. I think NBC made a good move putting 30 Rock right after The Office last week, and I hope they keep it there. It feels like the show is […]
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News Roundup: Fresh Prints Edition
April 9th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Activism, Advertising, Apple, Business, Climate Change, Culture, Health, HIV/AIDS, Human Rights, iTunes, Labor, LGBT, Media, Music, News, Politics, Science
Newt Gingrich calls on Abu Gonzales to resign. Trying to sound like a big, butch hunter to please the NRA, dreadfully amusing little joke of a candidate Mitt Romney says he likes to hunt rabbits and refers to them as “varmints.” Tell it to the Easter bunny, Mitt. I hope he left a gaily decorated […]
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News Roundup: Amber Waves of Tainted Grain Edition
April 4th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Activism, Blogs, Business, Climate Change, Culture, Doctor Who, Food, Foreign Policy, Health, Human Rights, LGBT, Media, News, Politics, Science, Science Fiction, Supreme Court, TV
Bush thinks he has the right to “attach conditions” to the Supreme Court’s ruling on greenhouse gases. Bush also said China and India must get on board the international effort to combat global warming. “Unless there is an accord with China,” he said, “China will produce greenhouse gases that will offset anything we do in […]
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Jonesing for Doctor Who
April 2nd, 2007 · Comments Off on Jonesing for Doctor Who · Culture, Doctor Who, Lit, Media, News, Science Fiction, TV
Season 3 of Doctor Who is off to a great start, premiering on the BBC this past Saturday night to an appreciative 35.9% of the UK TV audience. Episode 1, “Smith and Jones,” served up rhino-headed aliens called The Judoon, a hospital on the moon, and of course the debut of the Doctor’s new companion, […]
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News Roundup: Supreme Court, Python,
and Gromit Edition
April 2nd, 2007 · 1 Comment · Advertising, Apple, Blogs, Business, Climate Change, Comedy, Culture, Film, Fringe, Health, Human Rights, iTunes, LGBT, Media, Music, Nature, Neo-Futurists, News, Politics, Supreme Court, Torture, Travel, TV
The Supreme Court rules that the EPA has the authority — and the responsibility — to regulate greenhouse gases. Carl Pope of The Sierra Club says: “Today’s ruling is a watershed moment in the fight against global warming … The ruling is a total rejection of the Bush administration’s refusal to use its existing authority […]
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News Roundup: “An Exceptionally Heavy
Spaghetti Crop”
March 31st, 2007 · 3 Comments · Activism, Apple, Business, Climate Change, Comedy, Culture, Factory Farming, Feminism, Film, Food, Health, HIV/AIDS, iTunes, LGBT, Media, Music, News, Politics, Science, Tech, TV, Video
Here’s a little smorgasbord of items I wanted to blog this past week, and didn’t get the chance to. Because unlike spaghetti, time to blog doesn’t grow on trees! John Nichols of The Nation asks whether we’re nearing an “Impeachment Moment,” noting that the I-word is finally being discussed — if not exactly embraced — […]
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In Chicago: Even in Blackouts, LIP,
and The Dollar Store Show
March 30th, 2007 · Comments Off on In Chicago: Even in Blackouts, LIP,
and The Dollar Store Show · Chicago, Culture, Fringe, Music, Neo-Futurists, News, Performance, Poetry, The Partly Dave Show
What’s going on in Chicago this coming week? Almost too much for one imaginary tree-climbing pachyderm to blog. But here are a few highlights: On Monday night, the world’s best acoustic pop-punk outfit, John Pierson’s band Even in Blackouts, will be playing a basement concert in John’s own basement! It’s at [address redacted now that […]
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Mia Farrow on Darfur, Divestment,
and the 2008 Olympics in Beijing
March 30th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Activism, Business, Culture, Film, Foreign Policy, Human Rights, News, Peace, Politics
Mia Farrow, in her role as a Goodwill Ambassador for the UN, seems to be taking a real leadership role in drawing attention to the genocide in Darfur and putting pressure on those who have the ability to do something about it. Earlier this week she had a great op-ed in The Boston Globe (free […]
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The Deep Dish Approach to Solar Power
March 30th, 2007 · Comments Off on The Deep Dish Approach to Solar Power · Climate Change, Energy, News, Politics, Science, Tech
Here comes the sun: Sicily is building the world’s first solar power plant! According to a deal signed by the Italian government this week, the plant should by operational by 2009: The project is named Archimedes, after the famous resident of the nearby city of Syracuse. The existing gas-fired power plant on the site will […]
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Brzezinski on Iraq: Escalation Is “A Nonstarter.”
March 29th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Foreign Policy, History, Media, News, Peace, Politics
The April issue of Harper’s Magazine has a lengthy transcript of remarks by Zbigniew Brzezinski speaking before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Feb. 1. Brzezinski was the National Security Adviser in the Carter Administration, and is currently a professor of foreign policy at Johns Hopkins University. I’m no expert on Brzezinski, and reading over […]
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Seals, Global Warming, and the Canadian Seafood Boycott
March 29th, 2007 · Comments Off on Seals, Global Warming, and the Canadian Seafood Boycott · Activism, Climate Change, Food, News, Politics, Science
Canada is gearing up for its brutal annual slaughter of baby seals, setting its highest quota ever at a time when the seal populations are also threatened by climate change. Harp and hooded seals rely on the presence of sea ice, on which they give birth to and nurse their pups. But over the past […]
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