By Martin Bosworth It’s one of those moments of fearful symmetry only a tiger could love. Barely a day after FCC chair Kevin Martin announced that his agency would be investigating Comcast […]
The candidates don't care about our children
Probably every candidate who has ever run for President has claimed to be running to improve the future. This is especially true about this election cycle because so much has gone horribly […]
The Weekly Carboholic
Tour-Bluets – Flux tower on a recently harvest boreal black spruce site with lowbush blueberry ground cover, Chibougamau, Quebec. Photo credit: Onil Bergeron Last week also saw some unfortunate news for the […]
Obama still fired up, ready to go
For a guy who just lost a primary, ’08 Democratic White House hopeful Barack Obama sounds like he won. Highlights and remarks follow the video below…
Sen. Clinton and our War Against Women
In a NY Times op-ed today, prominent social analyst Gloria Steinem weighs in on America’s persistent gender and politics problem: Gender is probably the most restricting force in American life, whether the […]
"The Wire"–the best show on television and a guide to American decline
By Martin Bosworth Last night saw the premiere of the final season of “The Wire,” HBO’s long-running drama that started out as a gritty look at the cat-and-mouse battle between overworked, underpaid […]
Is Obama the new JFK?
Something big happened a few nights ago in Iowa. Barack Obama began the evening as one of the top two contenders for the Democratic nomination and by the time people went to […]
Boil the tar and fluff the feathers: Nancy's back!
By Ann Ivins Hey, ya’ll! Nancy Grace, the doyenne of FactLite® crime reporting, is back from maternity leave with a renewed zest for her selfless work as a victims’ rights advocate. If […]
Africa and the Delusion of the Big Men
Africa has a problem with causality. Not that the rest of the world consistently gets the idea either, but there are no other regions that so consistently mess up the nature of […]
Star medical examiner's compassion a lesson to splatter film fans
The third in our “Cult of Crime” series Part 1: Foxy Knoxy and the case of the honorary Missing White Woman Part 2: School, mall and workplace shootings: Why so many? No, […]
