How Low Can You Go?
This post was originally published at OpenSalon, a beta-test group blogging project of Salon Media.
I’m going to think out loud, if you don’t mind. I’ve been ruminating on something for a while now and I would like to indulge the openness and apparent civility of this forum to throw some very incompletely formed ideas against […]
That Didn’t Take Long
ABC News reports Miley Cyrus, Disney’s most recent pre-pubescent cash cow, is officially “embarrassed” by photographs set to appear in an upcoming issue of Vanity Fair, in which the 15 year-old star of Disney’s hit TV show “Hannah Montana” appears clutching a satin sheet to her naked breast.
Framed in festive graphics with bubblegum hues of […]
Passions Over Torch Run Hot
The fourth and fifth stops on a planned 85,000 mile relay bearing the Olympic flame from the Acropolis in Athens, Greece to the site of this year’s Summer Games in Bejing, China turned ugly over the weekend, as thousands of protesters in London and Paris disrupted the procession, drawing attention to China’s reputation for human […]
Here Today, Gone Tomorrow
Bear Stearns, the fifth largest investment bank in the United States, had $17 billion in cash and salable assets on March 11. At the close of trading on Friday, March 14, the eighty-five year-old firm had an exchange-listed market capitalization of just $4 billion. Over the ensuing weekend, one of its competitors, JP […]
The Sound of Breaking Glass
America loves nothing more than a sex scandal.
A collective peek up the panty-free skirt of a Former Teen Idol or a glimpse of nipple through the diaphanous gown of This Year’s Model beats the Comeback Victory, the Shaggy Dog, and the Horatio Alger story every time for getting the attention of the caffeine-fueled ADHD citizens […]
Pass the Fork, Please.
Today the U.S. Supreme Court declined an opportunity for a peek at the man behind the curtain, refusing to certify for appeal a case brought by the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of numerous Muslim lawyers, journalists and other American citizens, who argued the existence of the National Security Agency’s warrantless eavesdropping program rendered […]
Who Loves Ya, Baby?
The true origins of celebrating the notion of romantic love on February 14 are not well documented, though the exchange of elaborate, handmade gifts between paramours was well established by the middle of the eighteenth century in England, and began to really take off in the United States once Esther Howland (herself now considered something […]
Out With A Whimper
So long as we continue to trust the people, our nation will prosper, our liberty will be secure and the state of our union will remain strong.
– George W. Bush, Final State of the Union Speech, Jan. 28, 2008
Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by […]
Macworld 2008
What a difference a decade makes.
In January of 1998, you could have bought as much Apple, Inc. stock as you wanted for $4 per share. There was no iTunes, no iPod, no iPhone, MacBook, or really, much of anything save for the solid operating system software known then as Macintosh.
But even that was […]
Four Dead in Iowa
I know Neil Young actually wrote the lyric about Kent State and Ohio, but I just couldn’t resist.
Barack Obama came away with an exhilarating win in tonight’s Iowa caucuses, taking nearly 40% of the Democrats’ overall delegates from the state that produces a lot of the soybeans consumed in China. It only produces 7 […]