Friday's New York Times had an informative article on presidential hopeful John Edwards' anti-poverty organiztion. John Edwards ended 2004 with a problem: how to keep alive his public profile without the benefit of a presidential campaign that could finance his travels and pay for his political staff. Mr. Edwards, who reported this year that he […]
Over at Daily Pundit is an interesting article addressing possible reasons why there are fewer men volunteering for programs like the Big Brothers-Big Sisters program. Personally, I think the analysis is dead-on. Perhaps men are merely acting rationally. They've assessed the risk of volunteering to work with children, and want no part of it. If […]
People can get addicted to just about anything. So, the American Medical Association's proposal that videogame addiction be considered a mental illness is a (excuse the pun) no-brainer. But there's an even bigger problem highlighted by the aforelinked Associated Press story -- parental responsibility, or lack thereof. Joyce Protopapas of Frisco, Texas, said her 17-year-old […]
Kyle Smith over at the New York Post has a Q&A with Evan Coyne Maloney regarding his new film "Indoctrinate U." I've heard my alma mater figures prominently -- for all the wrong reasons.
MSNBC published a report today on journalists and their donations to various politicians. The results should come as little surprise: MSNBC.com identified 144 journalists who made political contributions from 2004 through the start of the 2008 campaign, according to the public records of the Federal Election Commission. Most of the newsroom checkbooks leaned to the […]
A new report reveals that the Iranians tried to capture some Aussie sailors back in 2004 -- and the Aussies were having none of it. The BBC reported earlier today that Iranian naval forces tried to capture the boarding team, but were repelled in the face of machine guns and "highly colourful language". Quoting a […]
Here's another one of those uneducated, ignorant right-wing idiots lying about global warming again: Solar scientists predict that, by 2020, the sun will be starting into its weakest Schwabe solar cycle of the past two centuries, likely leading to unusually cool conditions on Earth. Beginning to plan for adaptation to such a cool period, one […]
I was poking around The Washington Post's Web site when I decided to check out their "On Faith" feature. Ambivalence can probably best describe my feelings about the site -- I think it is too heavily populated by those mainline churches that nobody goes to anymore. When panelists tout their membership in the Jesus Seminar, […]
Crossing Wall Street points out that New York Times columnist Paul Krugman shouldn't be giving out financial advice. June 20, 2007 Paul Krugman Four Years Ago Today The big rise in the stock market is definitely telling us something. Bulls think it says the economy is about to take off. But I think it's a […]
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who became a Republican back in 2001 in order to avoid a crowded primary field on the Democrat side in his run for mayor, yesterday announced that he was quitting the GOP. This really isn't big news in and of itself -- everyone realized why he joined the party […]