These are two shocking videos I saw on PBS of Amy Goodman, a TV news anchor and journalist for the news program Democracy NOW, and her producer Nicole Salazar, being arrested during the protests that went on outside in the streets ( Read more... )

It was a creed written into the founding documents that declared the destiny of a nation ( Read more... )

So I watched Le Divorce tonight with the 'rents and got to thinking about Goldie Hawn and Kate Hudson, and trying to find the family resemblance (other then their blonde hair). This led me on a romp through cyberspace, where I learned way too much information about their ancestry (Goldie and Kate are Hungarian Jewish through the maternal line), and ( Read more... )

My 19-year-old sister was killed in a car accident May 16, 2007. She was driving my car to high school and it hydroplaned, causing her and her passenger to lose control, cross the median, and hit a semi truck's double-trailer. She died instantly. Her passenger, a friend and neighbor, survived with only a few minor injuries to his hand. 
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So I love my cat. He's just adorable. So so very adorable. To prove to all of you how very adorable my cat is, I am sharing two photos I recently took of him. Aren't you lucky ( Read more... )

So the computer desk broke the other day, thereby sending me to Craiglist and Ebay in search of another one. Ah Craiglist, that deep cesspit of crap. Seriously, giving people an unlimited amount of space to post photos and talk about trash they want to sell can be a wonderful and horrible experience all at the same time ( Read more... )

It would be hard to get more Suzie Homemaker right about now. I just made a stew in a crockpot. Well, granted, I started the slow cooker at 1:30 in the morning, which means it will be done by lunch tomorrow, which certainly isn't a Suzie Homemaker timeframe to work in, but hey, what can I say, I'm a nightowl ( Read more... )

So in, oh, maybe 2002, I took a media college course where I had to write a final paper about an up-and-coming media product or concept. I went on the Internet and browsed aimlessly for a while, and my paper ended up being about satellite radio, which was in its infancy at the time. The two companies competing in the industry had suffered some ( Read more... )

Ok, this WashingtonPost.com blog on Aqua Teen Hunger Force's melodramatic bomb scare in Boston has a link to the press conference the two 20-something men arrested in the incident gave this morning, where instead of fielding questions about the scare, they talked about the importance of 1970s hairstyles on history. I think my favorite moment was ( Read more... )

Google is actually DOWN. As in, I can't access its main page. Check it out:


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