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  1. 'Avatar' might be re-released in the summer

    → digg.com: Stories / Entertainment / Popular | 12 Mar 2010 | 8:20 pm MST

    James Cameron and Fox are in discussions about rereleasing "Avatar," primarily in 3D theaters, in late summer -- and, tantalizingly, with additional scenes that had been left on the cutting-room floor in the rush to ready the epic for its Dec. 18 release.




  2. Neflix Prize contest nixed due to privacy concerns

    → digg.com: Stories / Entertainment / Popular | 12 Mar 2010 | 8:10 pm MST

    Following a privacy violationlawsuit and discussions with the FTC, Netflix has decided to abandon its contest announced last August that was designed to come up with better ways for predicting movie watchers' behavior




  3. Hey Dog, Give Me Your Milkbone!

    → digg.com: Stories / Offbeat / Popular | 12 Mar 2010 | 8:10 pm MST

    I like those overalls.

  4. South Park Goes After Tiger Wood's Lame-ass Apology

    → digg.com: Stories / Entertainment / Popular | 12 Mar 2010 | 8:10 pm MST

    South Park is going to take on the Tiger Woods apology video in an episode that is almost certainly going to contain a ton of cartoon skanks.




  5. Collection of Most Barbaric Medieval Instruments of Torture

    → digg.com: Stories / Offbeat / Popular | 12 Mar 2010 | 8:00 pm MST

    This is a collection of most barbaric medieval instruments of torture that we found in St. Petersburg museum.

  6. Who Would Be Cast in The Coen Brothers' Star Wars?

    → digg.com: Stories / Entertainment / Popular | 12 Mar 2010 | 8:00 pm MST

    In a perfect world, every movie would be made by the Coen brothers.




  7. Best Pissed-Off Police Chiefs in Film (NSFW)

    → digg.com: Stories / Entertainment / Popular | 12 Mar 2010 | 7:50 pm MST

    Two weeks before retirement?! I'm getting too old for this *****.




  8. Frozen Decay; Scenes Along the Path to the Elephant Graveyard

    → Noblesse Oblige | 12 Mar 2010 | 7:45 pm MST

    The hard religious right’s bigotry for science, other religions, lifestyles, and races is like a frozen decay within the Republican party. Slowly and steadily getting worse until spring comes, the ice melts, and someone hoses the ugly muck off the walkway.

  9. Do Babies and Boobies Mix? Being a Mom at Playboy

    → digg.com: Stories / Offbeat / Popular | 12 Mar 2010 | 7:40 pm MST

    Meet Sarah: Managing editor of Playboy.com by day. Mom and Parenting.com blogger by night. Parenting.com readers rioted when the magazine hired her as a blogger. She simply sees herself as another full-time-working mom. What do you think?

  10. Manny Pacquiao Won't Have an Easy Win vs. Clottey

    → digg.com: Stories / Sports / Popular | 12 Mar 2010 | 7:30 pm MST

    Pacquiao is widely regarded as the best pound-for-pound boxer in the world, but that's always a tenuous perch. And he's facing a guy who may be as much as 15 pounds heavier when the fight begins. Clottey is a significant underdog in the eyes of the casual fan, but he's not nearly as big of an underdog to those in the boxing business.

  11. Movie Science . . .Revealed!

    → digg.com: Stories / Entertainment / Popular | 12 Mar 2010 | 7:20 pm MST

    As the old Hollywood saying goes, the bigger the blockbuster, the most unlikely the plot. Filmmakers work hard to cultivate our suspension of disbelief–that is, as long as we’re entertained, we’re willing to overlook huge, unrealistic flaws in film. Here are some of the biggest movies that have made the least scientific sense.




  12. 25 Absurd and Funny Road Signs (That Will Make You Laugh)

    → digg.com: Stories / Offbeat / Popular | 12 Mar 2010 | 6:40 pm MST

    Here is the list of 25 road signs, some funny, some totally absurd, from around the world.

  13. Oregon Ducks' Jeremiah Masoli pleads guilty to burglary, gets 12 months probation

    → Top Stories in the Blogosphere | 12 Mar 2010 | 6:23 pm MST

    Garrett Embry and Jeremiah Masoli during today's hearing. EUGENE - Oregon quarterback Jeremiah Masoli and wide receiver Garrett Embry entered guilty pleas Friday in Lane County Circuit Court to charges of burglary in connection with Jan.



  14. New photos of Beatles' John Lennon appear after 40 years

    → digg.com: Stories / Entertainment / Popular | 12 Mar 2010 | 6:10 pm MST

    Candid pictures of John Lennon which have never been seen in public have been found after being kept hidden in a photographer's drawer for more than 40 years.




  15. Most Bizarre Photoshopped Animals

    → digg.com: Stories / Offbeat / Popular | 12 Mar 2010 | 6:00 pm MST

    Ever seen a fish rhino before? Now you can say you have!

  16. The Lowdown on Bike Types and How to Choose Your Ride

    → digg.com: Stories / Sports / Popular | 12 Mar 2010 | 6:00 pm MST

    Likes Like shoes, it's wise to only buy a bike that fits properly. This means not only that the geometry of the frame suits your body, but also that gearing matches your pedaling power.

  17. Korean War Veteran Builds Schools for his Former Enemies

    → digg.com: Stories / Offbeat / Popular | 12 Mar 2010 | 6:00 pm MST

    Kim Chin-kyung was just 15 when he went to war in 1950, serving for the South Korean army. Many of the 800 soldiers in Kim’s unit were killed by enemy fire. When a bullet hit Kim, he was sure he would be killed.

  18. Conan O’Brien’s Chicago Shows Sell Out Immediately

    → digg.com: Stories / Entertainment / Popular | 12 Mar 2010 | 5:50 pm MST

    When “The Tonight Show” debacle finally ended NBC ensured that Conan O’Brien will not be hosting another TV show until at least September 1st.




  19. Calculation [comic]

    → digg.com: Stories / Entertainment / Popular | 12 Mar 2010 | 5:40 pm MST

    *****




  20. Monkeys Fighting! [w/ Pics]

    → digg.com: Stories / Offbeat / Popular | 12 Mar 2010 | 5:30 pm MST

    The human affinity for monkeys and apes can easily be explained by our fascination with a species that is so much like us. When we see monkeys fighting, however, our empathy for the weaker one is overpowered by our admiration for the stronger fighter and his or her animalistic grace and ferociousness.

  21. 7 De Niro Sequel Ideas Worse Than "Midnight Run 2"

    → digg.com: Stories / Entertainment / Popular | 12 Mar 2010 | 5:30 pm MST

    Does Midnight Run really need a sequel? Especially starring a 67-year old De Niro? We're not saying it'll definitely be terrible -- in fact, we can think of seven other De Niro films where a sequel would be a bigger travesty than whatever "Another Midnight Run" turns out to be.




  22. 10 Most Prolific Killers of the Past 50 Years

    → digg.com: Stories / Offbeat / Popular | 12 Mar 2010 | 5:20 pm MST

    Sadly, I've never heard of any of these serial killers before seeingthis infographic, yet many “well-known murderers” have achieved morenotoriety without such prolific killing numbers and statistics. Itmakes you wonder how these serial killers avoided the spotlight for solong.

  23. A Cub of a Different Color [Pics]

    → digg.com: Stories / Offbeat / Popular | 12 Mar 2010 | 5:00 pm MST

    A momma jaguar named Lolo plays with her new cub at the JordanZoo. The mother is a melanistic, which is why her coat is black anddifferent from her spotted baby. You can tell by her face that she’sstill adjusting to being bitten…constantly

  24. Lady Gaga Video Tackles Penis Rumor, Lesbian Prison Babes

    → digg.com: Stories / Entertainment / Popular | 12 Mar 2010 | 4:44 pm MST

    Lady Gaga's Telephone music video shows her addressing her penis rumor with burly prison lesbians who rip her clothes off.




  25. Mortgage help: 170,000 get permanent aid

    → Latest financial news - CNNMoney.com | 12 Mar 2010 | 4:29 pm MST

    More than 170,000 troubled homeowners are breathing a lasting sigh of relief now that they've received permanent modifications under the Obama administration's foreclosure prevention program.

  26. Japanese Girl Trying To Be The US' First Female Pro Pitcher

    → digg.com: Stories / Sports / Popular | 12 Mar 2010 | 4:20 pm MST

    18 year-old Eri Yoshida was the first woman drafted by a Japanese professional baseball team, and now she may be the first female pitcher to go pro in America.

  27. Stocks near 18-month highs

    → Latest financial news - CNNMoney.com | 12 Mar 2010 | 3:51 pm MST

    Stocks ended little changed Friday, as investors welcomed a report that showed a surprise rise in retail sales, but showed caution as the Dow, Nasdaq and S&P 500 lingered below 18-month highs.

  28. 9 Strange Athlete Superstitions

    → digg.com: Stories / Offbeat / Popular | 12 Mar 2010 | 3:50 pm MST

    Professional athletes, by definition, are not normal. They spend their entire young lives in a fishbowl, alternately worshiped and torn down by an ever-braying chorus of onlookers. It should come as no surprise, then, that many jocks develop unusual coping mechanisms, quite often involving superstitions.

  29. The Anatomy of an 80’s Action Movie

    → digg.com: Stories / Entertainment / Popular | 12 Mar 2010 | 3:20 pm MST

    Growing up as a male in the 1980s, there was one thing that was definitely a staple of our viewing – the Action Movie. Did they kick ass? HELL YES. Were they formulaic? Totally. As a connoisseur of the 80s action movie, I’ve dissected and performed an autopsy to find out what makes the 80s movie tick.




  30. Coconut Crabs: Nature's Worst Thing [PICS]

    → digg.com: Stories / Offbeat / Popular | 12 Mar 2010 | 3:10 pm MST

    The absolute worst thing about coconut crabs? They ate Amelia Earhart. It’s true! Recent discoveries suggest that coconut crabs ate her flesh and hoarded her bones in their crab burrows. Researchers hope that some of her remains can still be found in those crab burrows on Nikumaroro, the desert island where she died.

  31. Oh No! Woman Drives With Lady Stuck in Windshield

    → digg.com: Stories / Offbeat / Popular | 12 Mar 2010 | 3:10 pm MST

    Still in shock when she reached home four miles away.....

  32. The Rules and Regulations of Social Internet.

    → digg.com: Stories / Offbeat / Popular | 12 Mar 2010 | 3:00 pm MST

    Things you should know before entering the ostentatious world of Social Internet.

  33. SXSW Film Preview: 13 Movies to Watch For

    → digg.com: Stories / Entertainment / Popular | 12 Mar 2010 | 2:50 pm MST

    This year, SXSW's film portion runs March 12-20, and features movies from a host of categories, including headliners, spotlight premieres, films from the Lone Star state, the controversial midnighters (which tend to feature adult-themed topics) and a range of shorts, from live-action to animation.




  34. Dollar hurt by weak consumer data

    → Latest financial news - CNNMoney.com | 12 Mar 2010 | 2:46 pm MST

    The dollar fell Friday against most major currencies except the yen as investors digested conflicting reports on retail sales and consumer confidence.

  35. Yellen in line for Fed No. 2

    → Latest financial news - CNNMoney.com | 12 Mar 2010 | 2:39 pm MST

    San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank President Janet Yellen is a leading contender to be the next vice chairman of the central bank, according to White House press secretary Robert Gibbs.

  36. 30-year rides auction wave

    → Latest financial news - CNNMoney.com | 12 Mar 2010 | 2:23 pm MST

    The 30-year bond continued to rise Friday, carrying over from a successful $13 billion government auction the day before. Other Treasurys remained relatively flat as investors look ahead to statements from the Fed next week.

  37. Oil dips on gloomy consumer sentiment

    → Latest financial news - CNNMoney.com | 12 Mar 2010 | 1:59 pm MST

    Oil prices fell Friday, as a preliminary consumer sentiment report came in worse than expected, overshadowing a rosy government retail sales report and a weaker dollar.

  38. Kristen Stewart & Dakota Fanning In 40 Years

    → Top Stories in the Blogosphere | 12 Mar 2010 | 1:58 pm MST

    Bosum buddies Dakota Fanning and Kristen Stewart showed up at "The Runaways" Los Angeles premiere yesterday rocking the red carpet.



  39. Travel Agencies Preview the Oceania Marina

    → All articles at Technorati | 12 Mar 2010 | 1:50 pm MST

    Oceania road shows create a stir in the travel community about the new Marina

  40. Dope-Fiend Monkey on Lam Since 2008--Now a Pop Culture Celeb

    → digg.com: Stories / Offbeat / Popular | 12 Mar 2010 | 1:50 pm MST

    Not only has this monkey eluded capture since ’08–and “enjoyed” all the drugged darts authorities have shot at him…But his antics have captured popular imagination – Facebook pages on him, growing fan base. Only thing left is his own (sure-to-come) reality TV series – maybe that’ll finally lure him in…

  41. Absent-Mindedness is a Middle-Aged Male Problem

    → digg.com: Stories / Offbeat / Popular | 12 Mar 2010 | 1:50 pm MST

    Not, it seems, because they cannot be bothered to remember, according to a study from the Institute of Education, University of London

  42. $642 million to clean up Lehman -- and counting

    → Latest financial news - CNNMoney.com | 12 Mar 2010 | 1:36 pm MST

    Unraveling the biggest-ever U.S. bankruptcy case isn't cheap.

  43. Warriors in the workplace

    → Latest financial news - CNNMoney.com | 12 Mar 2010 | 1:33 pm MST

    John Suh wanted to make a good impression on his new mentor. Before their first meeting last November, the 26-year-old former Army officer came up with a clear outline for what he hoped to get out of the relationship and rehearsed what he would say when the time came. "I went in there with a plan," says Suh. "I knew this was an incredible chance to expand my network. It's not like I have any relatives or friends who are CEOs of giant media conglomerates."

  44. Three Cool iPhone Games for Your Next Long Trip

    → All articles at Technorati | 12 Mar 2010 | 1:13 pm MST

    Cool games for the iPhone that will pass the time

  45. Katherine Heigl's MIA on Grey's Anatomy Set

    → All articles at Technorati | 12 Mar 2010 | 1:10 pm MST

    Katherine Heigl and her Grey's Anatomy character "Izzie" are missing from the set. What's the mystery?

  46. Google's privacy challenge

    → Latest financial news - CNNMoney.com | 12 Mar 2010 | 1:00 pm MST

    When dealing with privacy, Google often finds itself walking a tightrope.

  47. Talk About Charging the Mound...Wow

    → digg.com: Stories / Sports / Popular | 12 Mar 2010 | 1:00 pm MST

    All the way into the outfield? This is incredible.

  48. Endgame for the government debt crisis?

    → Reflecting Light | 12 Mar 2010 | 12:49 pm MST

    While all eyes are riveted to the Machiavellian strategies of the Obama Mob to kick Americans' teeth in and shove health care "reform" down their throats — scratch that; Machiavelli was a smart politician — it won't do to forget about the backdrop. Namely, the government debt deluge that in varying degrees threatens to wash away every Western nation's economy.No one, obviously, knows for sure how

  49. Ricky Gervais Calls Out Weirdness of The Marriage Ref [VID]

    → digg.com: Stories / Entertainment / Popular | 12 Mar 2010 | 12:40 pm MST

    Gervais: "I feel like someone's put crack in my drink! What is going on? This is the weirdest show I've ever been on."




  50. Gary Busey makes a boring red carpet awesome [Vid]

    → digg.com: Stories / Entertainment / Popular | 12 Mar 2010 | 12:10 pm MST

    This guy has done more drugs in one night than you will in your whole life.




  51. Apple v. Apple

    → All articles at Technorati | 12 Mar 2010 | 11:40 am MST

    Apple will be the loser, whether they win or lose in court.

  52. Health care: Going from broken to broke

    → Latest financial news - CNNMoney.com | 12 Mar 2010 | 11:37 am MST

    A few nights ago in the historic Renaissance Grand Hotel in St. Louis, Mo., President Obama reassured a crowd of Senator Claire McCaskill supporters that health-care reform wouldn't just be good for their health, it would be good for the health of the country: "I said at the beginning of this thing we would not do anything that adds to our deficit," he said to the clapping audience. "This plan does not do anything to add to this deficit. And that's how we should be operating."

  53. Someone Tell Howell Raines About Media Matters

    → All articles at Technorati | 12 Mar 2010 | 11:18 am MST

    His Washington Post column wonders why journalists aren't calling out Fox News. Someone show him the Internet.

  54. What killed Lehman

    → Latest financial news - CNNMoney.com | 12 Mar 2010 | 10:59 am MST

    Failings by Lehman Brothers executives and its auditor led to the bank collapse that unleashed the worst of the financial crisis, according to a report by a court-appointed investigator.

  55. Good news for stocks is good for the $

    → Latest financial news - CNNMoney.com | 12 Mar 2010 | 10:53 am MST

    The dollar has gotten stronger this year. Is that because the U.S. economy appears to be improving -- or in spite of it?

  56. Please Stop Stoking The Fire

    → All articles at Technorati | 12 Mar 2010 | 10:42 am MST

    Another Islamic militant attack in Pakistan

  57. 'Medical mafia' don pleads guilty

    → Latest financial news - CNNMoney.com | 12 Mar 2010 | 10:40 am MST

    A medical consultant accused of orchestrating a conspiracy among top Las Vegas doctors and lawyers to inflate personal injury settlements by many millions of dollars, has pleaded guilty to concealing knowledge of a felony, a charge known as misprision. The consultant, Howard Awand, 65, faces up to three years in prison and a $250,000 fine.

  58. Giving the Collyer Brothers a Run for Their Money

    → All articles at Technorati | 12 Mar 2010 | 10:40 am MST

    Family members who hoard, and those who love them

  59. Woman Hit in Head by Golf Ball in Freak Accident

    → All articles at Technorati | 12 Mar 2010 | 10:36 am MST

    Natasha Cossell was struck in the head with a golf ball while traveling in a taxi

  60. Retail sales beat expectations

    → Latest financial news - CNNMoney.com | 12 Mar 2010 | 10:18 am MST

    Retail sales rose in February, the government said Friday, surprising economists who expected a decline.

  61. City Lights Globe – Watch the world go from day to night

    → Top Stories in the Blogosphere | 12 Mar 2010 | 9:35 am MST

    This City Lights Globe is a 6" globe that gives you a realistic view of the Earth from space as it moves from day into night.



  62. Google's Chrome OS On Schedule, According To Schmidt

    → All articles at Technorati | 12 Mar 2010 | 9:21 am MST

    Google's OS expected to be available in second half of 2010

  63. Morning Bell: Obamacare at Any Cost

    → The TexasFred Blog | 12 Mar 2010 | 9:14 am MST

    Morning Bell: Obamacare at Any Cost Yesterday the White House circulated a memo by pollster Joel Benenson. It was designed to create momentum for Obamacare by convincing wayward House Democrats that support for the President’s plan has been building since the State of the Union. As with everything else that comes out of the White House [...]

  64. Narrow Minded Bigots Cancel Prom and Spite Everyone

    → Noblesse Oblige | 12 Mar 2010 | 8:54 am MST

    Bigots from the Religious right have canceled a school prom when they were challenged by a lesbian who wanted to bring her girl friend and who wanted to dress in a tuxedo.

  65. Germany to Greece - we're in charge, so shut up

    → Samizdata.net | 12 Mar 2010 | 8:44 am MST

    A short item, which takes the breath way, on how the problems of countries like Greece has encouraged the German government to insist that unless these countries are as economically "fit" as Germany is or claims to be, they cannot participate in EU decisions. Well, I guess such a comment makes it explicit that as far as Germany is concerned, the strong states rule, and the weaker ones should shut up and do as they...

  66. Apple Releases Safari 4.0.5, Patches Security Issues

    → All articles at Technorati | 12 Mar 2010 | 8:29 am MST

    Vulnerabilities exist in both Mac and Windows versions of the browser.

  67. Building the world's longest ethanol pipeline

    → Latest financial news - CNNMoney.com | 12 Mar 2010 | 7:55 am MST

    John D. Rockefeller figured out a long time ago that the most efficient way to transport liquid fuels long distances wasn't on wheels but in pipelines. Today POET, the privately held Sioux Falls, S.D., company that is the country's largest producer of ethanol, and Tulsa pipeline-builder Magellan Midstream Partners are poised to make the same leap.

  68. Rowlett TEA Party News

    → The TexasFred Blog | 12 Mar 2010 | 6:55 am MST

    Rowlett TEA Party News We had a very productive meeting last night, there’s a lot of NEW blood and energy running through The Rowlett Tea Party and we will be holding some exciting new events and sponsoring new and much needed projects in the very near future. We have a lot of very smart people involved in this organization and [...]

  69. Ailing Bulls take another loss

    → Top Stories in the Blogosphere | 12 Mar 2010 | 5:34 am MST

    Bulls fans, if you're waking up this morning and tuning in to your local broadcast, reading the newspaper, logging on to whatever site you get your Bulls info from; you may look at Thursday nights stat sheet and notice an unfamiliar face in the scoring leaders column.



  70. Further reasons for loathing the LibDems, Ctd

    → Samizdata.net | 12 Mar 2010 | 4:35 am MST

    I really, really hope that Nick Clegg, leader of the UK Liberal Democrats, does not hold the balance of power at the next General Election, if this Spectator article, "Can Nick Clegg Sing the Blues?", is a guide (the article is behind the Speccie's subscription firewall). Mr Clegg, the article says, is trying to reach out to supposed Conservative voters by arguing for tax cuts. But as is clear, the cuts are only for low-earners...

  71. Teacher killed by wolves in Alaska, police say

    → Top Stories in the Blogosphere | 12 Mar 2010 | 1:22 am MST

    A schoolteacher found dead this week near a remote Alaska village was probably killed by wolves, Alaska State Troopers said on Thursday.



  72. Let's play chess

    → Samizdata.net | 12 Mar 2010 | 1:17 am MST

    I have been rushed with work lately - hence no update on the blog yesterday by me or indeed, by anyone else. But hey, it is Friday, and time for a spot of photo nonsense. I am not sure I would want to play chess with any of them, mind. (H/T, David Thompson)....

  73. Timeline of Insanity for the Craziest MF'er in MLB History

    → digg.com: Stories / Sports / Popular | 11 Mar 2010 | 10:00 pm MST

    Milton Bradley is nuts. You know it, I know it. Let's find out why.

  74. Cuban Baseball Fights Are a Bit Different Than Ours (Video)

    → digg.com: Stories / Sports / Popular | 11 Mar 2010 | 9:40 pm MST

    Baseball fights tend to feature a lot of yapping, a little rolling around and not much actual danger but the Cubans do things a little differently...

  75. ENHANCED: Google Shopping Search introduces In Stock Nearby Location Based Feature

    → Top Stories in the Blogosphere | 11 Mar 2010 | 9:12 pm MST

    Last December, Vic Gundotra, Google Vice President of Engineering, demonstrated a preview version of Product Search for mobile devices with local inventory, which lets you see right in your search results whether items are in stock at nearby stores.



  76. Roethlisberger Denies He Had Sexual Intercourse With Accuser

    → digg.com: Stories / Sports / Popular | 11 Mar 2010 | 6:20 pm MST

    Ben Roethlisberger told police there was no sexual intercourse with the woman who is accusing the Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback of assault.

  77. Breaking Down The Twilight: Eclipse Trailer

    → Top Stories in the Blogosphere | 11 Mar 2010 | 5:10 pm MST

    The first trailer for Eclipse , the third film in Stephanie Meyer's asexual vampire series, "dropped" this morning.



  78. Clark Found Guilty of Murdering Broncos' Darrent Williams

    → digg.com: Stories / Sports / Popular | 11 Mar 2010 | 4:10 pm MST

    Over three years after the death of Broncos cornerback Darrent Williams, Willie Clark was found guilty of murder Thursday. Clark, 26, was facing 21 charges, including two counts of first-degree murder.

  79. 22 Coaches Putting the MAD in March Madness [Gallery]

    → digg.com: Stories / Sports / Popular | 11 Mar 2010 | 3:50 pm MST

    A pictorial celebration of the MAD in March Madness, featuring the coaches of the current top 16 teams in America, as well as six others thrown in for good (see: hilarious) measure.

  80. Who is Jason Heyward?

    → digg.com: Stories / Sports / Popular | 11 Mar 2010 | 3:00 pm MST

    One day Chipper Jones says he looks like a linebacker. One day Bobby Cox compares him to Hank Aaron. Another day he is smashing cars with his homeruns. Just yesterday Jim Leyland compared him to Albert Pujols.

  81. London Underground to cut up to 800 jobs

    → Top Stories in the Blogosphere | 11 Mar 2010 | 1:04 pm MST

    In a bid to save A 16m each year, LU has announced it will be losing around 700-800 roles on the Tube.



  82. Pro Football Hall of Famer Merlin Olsen dies

    → digg.com: Stories / Sports / Popular | 11 Mar 2010 | 12:55 pm MST

    Olsen was a Pro Bowler 14 times in a 15-year career. The Rams announced the sad news on Twitter.

  83. Woman to Become Only Female Head Football Coach in the U.S.

    → digg.com: Stories / Sports / Popular | 11 Mar 2010 | 11:50 am MST

    On Friday, Natalie Randolph is scheduled to be formally named the head football coach at Coolidge High School in Northwest Washington. The appointment, which Randolph confirmed in a brief telephone conversation Tuesday, was applauded by some of her peers in the coaching profession.

  84. World Vision Attacked in Pakistan

    → Top Stories in the Blogosphere | 11 Mar 2010 | 8:57 am MST

    World Vision today is mourning the brutal and senseless deaths of six members of our staff in the Mansehra district of Pakistan, following an unprovoked attack by gunmen.



  85. Playstation Move put to its first Tests

    → Top Stories in the Blogosphere | 11 Mar 2010 | 4:50 am MST

    Sony announced today the Playstation Move and Playstation Move sub-controller at the GDC 2010.



  86. Top 10 NBA Rookie Point Guards

    → digg.com: Stories / Sports / Popular | 11 Mar 2010 | 4:20 am MST

    Tyreke Evans is the top rookie point guard, but just barely over Stephen Curry. Brandon Jennings is fourth.

  87. PS3 Motion Controller Dubbed PlayStation Move, Launch Details Announced

    → Top Stories in the Blogosphere | 11 Mar 2010 | 12:47 am MST

    Today Sony finally revealed the name of the PS3 motion controller they unveiled last summer.



  88. Green Bay Packers dig into past for new alternate uniform

    → digg.com: Stories / Sports / Popular | 11 Mar 2010 | 12:30 am MST

    The Green Bay Packers have reached deep into their past to add an alternate color scheme to their traditional green-and-gold uniform repertoire. The new "third uniforms" are so old, in fact, that an 80-year-old photo had to be colorized to show what they originally looked like.

  89. Ohio State's Evan Turner Wins SN National Player of the Year

    → digg.com: Stories / Sports / Popular | 10 Mar 2010 | 10:30 pm MST

    Evan Turner, who overcame a broken back after falling off the rim during a dunk, is a triple-double threat every night and has Ohio State in contention for a Final Four appearance. He took the honor over Kentucky's John Wall.

  90. BIC: Brazil, India, and California Total Petroleum Consumption

    → Gregor.us | 10 Mar 2010 | 9:59 pm MST

    EIA Washington produces a ton of energy data that’s very current and detailed on global energy production. But what’s harder to come by is Non-OECD oil and oil product consumption. As the calendar turns to March, alot of the annual data starts to complete for the prior years, and I found my way deep into [...]

  91. YouTube Mobile hits v2.4, gets account support

    → Top Stories in the Blogosphere | 10 Mar 2010 | 8:46 pm MST

    The YouTube Mobile client for S60 has gone through more versions than I've had flavours of ice cream recently, but at last the one we've all been waiting for has appeared.



  92. Could Celebrity Rehab and Dr. Drew Pinsky have saved Corey Haim?

    → Top Stories in the Blogosphere | 10 Mar 2010 | 4:22 pm MST

    The Lost Boys star Corey Haim died today, reportedly as the result of an accidental drug overdose.



  93. US military announces 2 deaths

    → Top Stories in the Blogosphere | 10 Mar 2010 | 12:05 pm MST

    Yesterday the US military announced : "CONTINGENCY OPERATING STATION KALSU, Iraq - Two U.S. Soldiers died yesterday of non-combat related injuries resulting from a vehicle accident.



  94. Minority babies set to become majority in 2010

    → The TexasFred Blog | 10 Mar 2010 | 12:03 pm MST

    Minority babies set to become majority in 2010 WASHINGTON – Minorities make up nearly half the children born in the U.S., part of a historic trend in which minorities are expected to become the U.S. majority over the next 40 years. In fact, demographers say this year could be the “tipping point” when the number [...]

  95. On so-called "insta-books" and their alleged faults

    → Samizdata.net | 10 Mar 2010 | 11:20 am MST

    It is an interesting argument made here that so-called "instant books", written in the aftermath of some crisis or big event, can be easily overturned by subsequent events, debate and analysis. Quite true. And it is also true that the internet, blogging and online debate is intensifying this process of making a book look dated within months of publication. But it seems to me that in the article I link to, the author of the...

  96. The Hurt Locker

    → Reflecting Light | 10 Mar 2010 | 9:02 am MST

    I probably wouldn't bother to write about The Hurt Locker except that I happened to be watching it — via DVD — on Oscars night. That wasn't because of any prior planning; it just happened to come up in my Netflix queue and arrived last week. Since The Hurt Locker won the gongs for Best Picture, Directing, Editing, Sound Editing, Sound Mixing, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Fingernail Trimming

  97. Lindsay Lohan takes swipe at E-Trade babies

    → Top Stories in the Blogosphere | 10 Mar 2010 | 7:52 am MST

    Lindsay Lohan is feuding with the E-Trade babies. The actress has filed a $100 million lawsuit claiming a television ad for the Wall Street firm that aired during the Super Bowl and Olympics was modeled after her.



  98. The grassroots Tea Party movement flummoxes the left

    → The TexasFred Blog | 10 Mar 2010 | 6:32 am MST

    I have a blogging friend named James Shott. He blogs at Observations and I have got to tell you, he is one tremendous blogger. It is my pleasure to bring you this piece of work from Mr. James Shott. Enjoy! The grassroots Tea Party movement flummoxes the left Watching the left try to cope with [...]

  99. The Myth of Energy Breakthroughs

    → Gregor.us | 9 Mar 2010 | 8:11 pm MST

    Renewed belief in the concept of Energy Breakthrough seems resurgent these days, as a versatile scientist now helms the Department of Energy, and famous people such as Bill Gates invoke the need (and thus our quest) for energy miracles. The notion of a technological breakthrough was also, unsurprisingly, at play this weekend when I attended [...]

  100. The splendiferous Dave Cameron poster generator... hehehehe

    → Samizdata.net | 9 Mar 2010 | 11:23 am MST

    This is splendid almost beyond words. Now go make your own! Hat tip to John Farrier...

  101. The slings and arrows of outrageous legislation...

    → Samizdata.net | 9 Mar 2010 | 5:33 am MST

    Iowahawk has delved into Shakespeare and uncovered this little known masterpiece. Enjoy!...

  102. Samizdata quote of the day

    → Samizdata.net | 9 Mar 2010 | 1:59 am MST

    "In the 19th century, the British would have answered Mr Riley-Smith's question "What has trade to do with human understanding" very readily. It has a great deal to do with it, we would have said. Commerce is the main means of peaceful intercourse with other people. It is the circulatory system of the world. It is part of the constitution of liberty which, as the author rightly says, we exported to America. If we have...

  103. Obama appeals for support on health care

    → The TexasFred Blog | 8 Mar 2010 | 1:48 pm MST

    Obama appeals for support on health care WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama accused insurance companies of placing profits over people and said Republicans ignored long-festering problems when they held power as he sought to build support Monday for swift passage of legislation stalled in Congress. “Let’s seize reform, the need is great,” Obama said at [...]

  104. Spring is here (almost)

    → Samizdata.net | 8 Mar 2010 | 11:28 am MST

    Well, the days are getting longer, I have even seen quite a bit of the yellow thing in the sky, and I was woken up this morning by some randy pigeons on my terraced roof, so let's take it away, Mr Tom Lehrer: Spring is here, a-suh-puh-ring is here. Life is skittles and life is beer. I think the loveliest time of the year is the spring. I do, don't you? 'course you do. But...

  105. UniGod

    → Reflecting Light | 8 Mar 2010 | 11:26 am MST

    I've been puzzling over something for a while. If you have answers to offer, please comment.Why didn't the concept of a single, unitary God appear in Western history until late in the classical world? Why not in ancient Greece and pre-Christian Rome?Greek civilization was hardly incurious. Its philosophers, from Socrates through Plato to Aristotle, as well as less famous names, seem to have

  106. I’m a Feminist!

    → La Shawn Barber's Corner | 8 Mar 2010 | 10:28 am MST

    I believe in equal justice under the law for us human females, a principle that covers a multitude of rights. For example, equal pay for equal work, the right to vote, and the right to live.

  107. Samizdata quote of the day

    → Samizdata.net | 8 Mar 2010 | 7:56 am MST

    Jack lost his iPhone last night. He has therefore been stuck at home on his Playstation 3 all day. - An (early twenties, male) customer overheard in a coffee bar in the East End yesterday afternoon. I can understand how the world outside the front door is a scary, scary place if it is just you, completely unaugmented....

  108. Bound Ambition

    → La Shawn Barber's Corner | 7 Mar 2010 | 3:47 pm MST

    Me and my blog. Oh boy. As I’ve mentioned a few times, I’m writing a novel in the paranormal and Christian genres. I started a year ago, and I’m presently rewriting/revising it. I hope to have it agent-ready by my birthday, May 5. Will I make it? I’ve invested a year writing this story. I’m determined [...]

  109. Here today but not gone tomorrow

    → Samizdata.net | 7 Mar 2010 | 2:44 pm MST

    The late Chris Tame, whom I used to assist in the running of the Alternative Bookshop and of the Libertarian Alliance, used to say, of blogging, that it was "here today and gone tomorrow". Well, indeed, most of it does pretty much fall off most of our merely mental radar sets by around the middle of the following week, but most of it is still there, and if you want to remember and refer back...

  110. Novels about the European Union and current affairs

    → Samizdata.net | 7 Mar 2010 | 10:59 am MST

    My old friend, Andrew Ian Dodge, now residing in the chilly US northeastern state of Maine, has a book out, And Glory, which is set in a near future where the EU superstate is in full power (not that far off, then, Ed). He mashes up a a bit of political speculation, SciFi and good rollocking drama to make an interesting read. (As if my reading list was not long enough, aaagrrrh). I have been...

  111. Al-Qaida calls on US Muslims to attack America

    → The TexasFred Blog | 7 Mar 2010 | 10:21 am MST

    Al-Qaida calls on US Muslims to attack America CAIRO (AP) – Al-Qaida’s American-born spokesman on Sunday called on Muslims serving in the U.S. armed forces to emulate the Army major charged with killing 13 people in Fort Hood. In a 25-minute video posted on militant Web sites, Adam Gadahn described Maj. Nidal Hasan as a [...]

  112. The 'Tory Secret Weapon' is... Ken Clarke?

    → Samizdata.net | 7 Mar 2010 | 8:57 am MST

    Oh Jesus wept, just put the leadership of the Tory party out of our misery and get it over with. The 'secret weapon' of the Tory Party is a pro-Euro corporatist whose ability to alienate actual conservatives has been proven every time the bastard has rolled out over the last couple decades. The Tory party is facing a widely detested and demonstrably failed government and the fact they are not forty points ahead in the...

  113. Samizdata quote of the day

    → Samizdata.net | 6 Mar 2010 | 4:28 pm MST

    The only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their own pockets. - Lysander Spooner...

  114. Mainstreaming Extremism in East London

    → Noblesse Oblige | 6 Mar 2010 | 7:58 am MST

    An ongoing series….

  115. Pentagon gunman sought ‘truth’ about 9/11

    → The TexasFred Blog | 5 Mar 2010 | 11:41 am MST

    Pentagon gunman sought ‘truth’ about 9/11 Internet postings linked to the suspected gunman in a Pentagon subway shooting suggest long-held frustration with the government’s reach into the private life of Americans. The suspect, John Patrick Bedell, 36, died after exchanging gunfire with two police officers. He spent weeks driving to the Capital area from the [...]

  116. Samizdata quote of the day

    → Samizdata.net | 5 Mar 2010 | 4:16 am MST

    "By God, The Guardian is a loathsome newspaper; a local north London morning daily for Stalinist metro libtards, perpetually arrogant, snobbish, self-righteous, humourless, dull, relentlessly middle class, cowardly and cheap." - Rod Liddle As regulars know, I am not Mr Liddle's greatest fan but when he is on form, he really hits it out of the park, as they say in baseball. The whole piece is an exhilerating piece of invective, all the more delicious...

  117. PBS host Smiley calls meeting to urge black agenda

    → The TexasFred Blog | 4 Mar 2010 | 9:20 am MST

    PBS host Smiley calls meeting to urge black agenda Two months after ending his annual State of the Black Union conference, Tavis Smiley is gathering African-American advocates to press the case for a “black agenda.” The decision was motivated by what Smiley called recent statements from some black leaders downplaying the need for President Barack Obama [...]

  118. My alternative right is more alternative than your alternative right

    → Reflecting Light | 4 Mar 2010 | 7:11 am MST

    Alternative Right, which has been in business now for four days, is already a 7.5 on the conservative Richter scale. Two bloggers on my "Gold Standard" list have enthusiastically registered their feelings: hopeful (Dennis Mangan, here and here) and contra (Lawrence Auster, here).I've checked out Alternative Right — not read everything posted there, but enough to get an impression of what it's on

  119. The Mainstreaming of Extremism on the Right

    → Noblesse Oblige | 4 Mar 2010 | 6:55 am MST

    The Southern Poverty Law Center’s Mark Potok details the rise in militia, patriot, and extremist groups last year. The factor that he misses in this video however is not the rise of these groups, but rather their wider acceptance. Mainstream center right and even right-right politicians of years past would never have spoken at a [...]

  120. I think I will give this show a miss

    → Samizdata.net | 4 Mar 2010 | 4:42 am MST

    Rob Fisher, another occasional commenter at our threads who has his own blog, has this to say about a new TV show about border security guards (yes, that's right). On the basis of his comment, I think I will be watching the rest of Mad Men instead....

  121. Energy Supply and the Individual States

    → Gregor.us | 3 Mar 2010 | 9:55 pm MST

    The February issue of Gregor.us Monthly, Energy Supply and the Individual States, has now been published. The 22 page report is a more data-filled version of the thematic treatment I’ve given to this issue the past month, here at Gregor.us. While many news organizations and investment houses have started to address more concertedly the financial [...]

  122. Cotton Balls Left At Black Culture Center

    → The TexasFred Blog | 3 Mar 2010 | 12:51 pm MST

    Cotton Balls Left At Black Culture Center COLUMBIA, Mo. — University of Missouri police are investigating after someone scattered cotton balls outside the Gaines/Oldham Black Culture Center on the Columbia campus. Students and staff discovered the cotton balls littering the grass and sidewalk outside the building Friday. Witnesses told campus police that two people were seen running [...]

  123. Gov. Perry defeats Hutchison in Texas GOP primary

    → The TexasFred Blog | 3 Mar 2010 | 8:41 am MST

    Gov. Perry defeats Hutchison in Texas GOP primary AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – Texas Gov. Rick Perry tapped into a rising wave of anti-Washington ire and rode it to an easy Republican primary win over Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, once seen as the candidate who could block his march toward four more years in the state’s [...]

  124. Government obesity is a national problem

    → Reflecting Light | 2 Mar 2010 | 9:15 am MST

    Fifty-six percent of Americans polled last week said that "the federal government's become so large and powerful that it poses an immediate threat to the rights and freedoms of ordinary citizens." An immediate threat.According to an archaic document — the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution — recovered from the ruins of Washington, "The powers not delegated to the United States by the

  125. What we Know About Climate Change

    → Noblesse Oblige | 28 Feb 2010 | 9:06 am MST

    A new video from Peter Sinclair who outlines some of the very basic and elementary facts and proofs of man made global warming, and how they are supported. I’ve known about man made global warming since the 1980’s, when I used to point it out as a good reason for increasing production of nuclear energy to [...]

  126. More junk archaeology from the U.K.

    → Reflecting Light | 28 Feb 2010 | 8:11 am MST

    Wall painting from the York social register,Aprilis XVI, CCCXL Archaeologists today sound more and more like the politically minded scientists spouting hysteria about man-made global warming. I have complained about their poorly founded announcements before -- see here and here. Besides cases of over-enthusiasm about ambiguous evidence and headline chasing, we now have archaeologists who can be

  127. Dog Park Day

    → Noblesse Oblige | 27 Feb 2010 | 9:52 am MST

    A day at the dog park with Kasey and Chewey

  128. The Sandpit: Tilty and Shifty Without the Rented Lens

    → Noblesse Oblige | 27 Feb 2010 | 8:07 am MST

    No matter what the fellow at True Slant says you have to admire The Sandpit from the sheer amount of labor and love that went into it. Just because Bill likes the scenery chewing Snowstorm as an actor better than both Night and Day doesn’t mean that Coney Island is really better. I mean some [...]

  129. M O O N Spells Moon

    → Noblesse Oblige | 26 Feb 2010 | 7:39 pm MST

    Tonight’s moon – these moon photos I post are pretty large, so when you click on the thumbnail to blow it up, try ctrl and the plus key together a few times to see the real definition.

  130. Our Pale Blue Dot

    → Noblesse Oblige | 26 Feb 2010 | 5:09 pm MST

    This is our pale blue dot — ours but for a moment in vast cosmic time.

  131. True Fiscal Conservatives Always Charge Their Groceries to State Party Credit Cards…

    → Noblesse Oblige | 26 Feb 2010 | 3:19 pm MST

    In the mounting brouhaha over Marco Rubio’s personal expenses being charged to GOP credit cards Hot air has been fast to leap to the defense; after all the darling of the CPAC convention is a true fiscal conservative in the “Duke” Randall Cunningham and J.D. Hayworth mold… See TNR for more: Florida Republican Senate candidate Marco Rubio [...]

  132. The Greater Icepaw Range

    → Noblesse Oblige | 26 Feb 2010 | 11:04 am MST

    Scientists believe that the strange formations of the Icepaw range that resemble a demonic lion’s face or J.D. Hayworth talking about birth certificates were actually created by a large meteor shower. In this aerial photo you can see the formations completely. Local Legend has it that the Spirit of Kasey created them as she chased [...]

  133. A Warming World

    → Noblesse Oblige | 25 Feb 2010 | 2:56 pm MST

    Here’s a video from NASA data that details some of the factors behind AGW. For much more information go to Nasa’s Warming World page.

  134. Obama to U.S.: Don't be defensive

    → Reflecting Light | 25 Feb 2010 | 8:12 am MST

    National defense? He don't need to show you no stinkin' national defense.Your blogger is convinced that if the Bower-in-Chief thought he could pull it off, he would replace all our armed forces with ACORN goons. We've grown accustomed to his nominees and appointees who seem to have been hand picked for inability and being contrary to their supposed missions. Now he wants a Coast Guard commander

  135. Wisconsin Planned Parenthood Covers Up Statutory Rape

    → La Shawn Barber's Corner | 24 Feb 2010 | 10:39 am MST

    Update (2/25): Yesterday I posted a video Live Action recorded in June 2008, which showed a Wisconsin Planned Parenthood worker telling who she believes is an underage pregnant teen not to reveal that her boyfriend is an adult. Abortion mill workers in Wisconsin must report statutory rape. The story appeared in the local media earlier [...]

  136. Transition Back to Coal

    → Gregor.us | 23 Feb 2010 | 9:55 pm MST

    In the January issue of  Gregor.us Monthly, published 31 January and titled Transition Back to Coal, I looked at 200 years of global coal use and I posed the following question: The United States is the second largest consumer of coal in the world. Sitting just behind China, but ahead of India, Japan, Russia, South Africa, [...]

  137. 30-Year-Old Dead Frozen Babies in West Philly

    → La Shawn Barber's Corner | 23 Feb 2010 | 9:05 am MST

    If you had your baby killed around 1980 in West Philadelphia, heads up. Your dead baby may be among the frozen “late-term” fetuses found at an abortion mill. (Source) Through the fire, indeed.

  138. Change you can't refuse

    → Reflecting Light | 23 Feb 2010 | 6:42 am MST

    King Barack (Big JuJu) Obama's messianic obsession with making the government the gatekeeper of your health care marks him as the most dangerous president the United States has had in our lifetimes, and possibly ever. It's not just that "health care reform" — a nebulous, ever-shifting plan that possibly no senator or congressman has read in its entirety — is designed to ultimately place every

  139. Kudos to Mark Levin and Bill Bennett

    → Noblesse Oblige | 22 Feb 2010 | 1:14 pm MST

    Kudos are due Mark Levin for calling out the Bircher Co-Sponsorship at CPAC, and refusing to speak there because of it. Mark and I probably don’t see eye to eye on some things (Discovery Institute issues likely) but you have to point out when someone’s doing something right. Of course we also have to point out [...]

  140. New Credit Card Rules Bound to Shock Some

    → Noblesse Oblige | 22 Feb 2010 | 9:20 am MST

    New reforms on Credit Cards go into effect today – it’s a good idea to check on changes to your cards: More here: King 5 News That helps explain why the industry reacted so aggressively to the legislation. Among the moves it made: — Resurrected annual fees. Annual fees, common until about 10 years ago, have made a comeback. [...]

  141. Icy Tree

    → Noblesse Oblige | 22 Feb 2010 | 8:41 am MST

    Yesterday it alternated between rain, snow, and sleet, the trees were coated with Ice for awhile. Of course Icy Trees are best viewed in late afternoon sunlight…

  142. The New World Disorder

    → Reflecting Light | 22 Feb 2010 | 7:13 am MST

    Attention must be paid, but once again your blogger is on the installment plan.Argentina to nationalize pension funds (Tip of the lid: Powerline.)The United States is not Argentina. We have no history (yet) of dictatorship, nor even under Chicago Rules have we reached Argentine levels of corruption. That should not breed complacency, however. For all its problems, Argentina is, or was, a

  143. Portrait of Price vs Non-Opec Supply

    → Gregor.us | 19 Feb 2010 | 2:10 am MST

    Non-OPEC crude oil supply peaked six years ago in 2004, at a sustained annual average of 42.068 mbpd (million barrels per day). Supply then fell every year thereafter through 2008, before making a small recovery in 2009. What’s telling, of course, is that supply peaked in a year when the price of oil averaged only [...]

  144. Duke False Rape Accuser Charged With Attempted Murder

    → La Shawn Barber's Corner | 18 Feb 2010 | 6:34 am MST

    I deleted the text of this post (although the archived version is somewhere out there), something I rarely do. I don’t want to write about this woman anymore. I said what I wanted to say about her and the case in the Duke “Rape” Case archives.

  145. Gregor.us in the Media

    → Gregor.us | 17 Feb 2010 | 10:08 pm MST

    It’s been a good week for media coverage as www.gregor.us managed to generate both print and television interest, in several important energy issues. ABC News.com published a good piece yesterday on the financial problems of large US states such as California, Michigan and Florida, and in my conversation with journalist Rich Blake, we discussed at [...]

  146. Rocky Mountain Surplus

    → Gregor.us | 17 Feb 2010 | 9:02 am MST

    In Seven States of Energy Debt I added an energy-twist to the current comparisons between fiscally troubled European countries like Greece and Portugal, and their counterparts in the US such as California, Illinois, and Florida. In addition to high rates of unemployment, a number of US states are also significant energy importers or worse have [...]

  147. Nervous about "service"

    → Reflecting Light | 16 Feb 2010 | 1:36 pm MST

    Michelle Obama urged her young audience at something called the Florida Campus Compact Awards Gala at something called the Freedom Tower — such grandiloquent names usually promise trouble — to dedicate their lives to "service." (Tip of the hat to American Thinker.)Mme. Obama had a lot to say about being committed to "service-mindedness."But first, she said this: "And I also want to thank someone

  148. Anti-Cables

    → Reflecting Light | 14 Feb 2010 | 8:50 am MST

    Life goes on. We Americans live in a country that, by rights, should be holding out a tin cup to reduce our deficit, but instead spends like there's no tomorrow (does somebody know something?); an elocutionary doof of a president insists on force feeding the populace with "change" the majority doesn't want; as if our schools haven't been dumbed down enough, one state has proposed to stop teaching

  149. Odds and sods

    → Reflecting Light | 11 Feb 2010 | 5:42 am MST

    I normally devote each posting to one topic. But with two feet of snow surrounding Reflecting Light world headquarters and beginning the second week of being unable to get any farther than the curb, your blogger is feeling a fraction scattered. So scattered is what this posting will be.Arizona quits Western climate endeavor.Arizona will no longer participate in a groundbreaking attempt to limit

  150. Birmingham Planned Parenthood on Probation

    → La Shawn Barber's Corner | 10 Feb 2010 | 1:41 pm MST

    As part of her undercover stings at Planned Parenthood offices, Lila Rose of Live Action recorded employees (including a “doctor”) lying about fetal development and advising the “underage” Lila Rose to lie about her adult “boyfriend’s” age. One of the clinics, Birmingham Planned Parenthood, has been put on probation for killing the unborn babies of minors [...]

  151. Riding Los Angeles

    → Gregor.us | 9 Feb 2010 | 9:48 pm MST

    Apparently a very robust cycling culture has blossomed in the past few years in my old city of Los Angeles. This is great to see, even from a distance. I used to ride in the Santa Monica Mountains–nearer to Los Angeles in the Hollywood Hills and also out farther near Topanga. I also rode the [...]

  152. Good on yer, mates!

    → Reflecting Light | 9 Feb 2010 | 5:54 am MST

    What a surprise from Australia, which I thought was seriously listing to port.CANBERRA: Australia tightened its migration rules Monday in favor of English speakers and professionals, saying the country has been attracting too many hairdressers and cooks and too few doctors and engineers.My eyes must have bulged like balloons when I read that. Common sense on immigration, as a government policy

  153. The money is the message

    → Reflecting Light | 7 Feb 2010 | 2:48 pm MST

    "U.S. aid cutback plan sends the wrong message," says the headline in the Miami Herald.Columnist Andres Oppenheimer says:If President Barack Obama's foreign aid budget request for 2011 is a reflection of his priorities in world affairs, it looks like the president is saying "adios'' to Latin America. The administration's foreign aid request to Congress for next year calls for a 13 percent

  154. Looking out my front door

    → Reflecting Light | 6 Feb 2010 | 10:52 am MST

    Tambourines and elephants are playing in the band. Won't you take a ride on the flying spoon? Doo, doo doo. Wond'rous apparition provided by magician.Doo, doo, doo, Looking out my back door.-- Creedence Clearwater Revival"Looking Out My Back Door"This was the view from my front door, actually, about three hours ago. There's been considerable accumulation since then, and the sky is still dumping

  155. Pro-Abort WashPost Columnist On Tim Tebow’s Side

    → La Shawn Barber's Corner | 5 Feb 2010 | 12:29 pm MST

    Update: A second Tim Tebow/Focus on the Family ad will air before the game starts. So ad #2 will air before the big game, and ad #1 will air during. *** I know we pro-lifers keep talking and talking and blogging and writing about Tim Tebow. We can’t help it!!! A high-profile, abstinent young Christian is set to [...]

  156. Seven States of Energy Debt

    → Gregor.us | 5 Feb 2010 | 10:40 am MST

    Out here on Cottage Grove it matters. The galloping Wind balks at its shadow. The carriages Are drawn forward under a sky of fumed oak. This is America calling: The mirroring of state to state, Of voice to voice on the wires, The force of colloquial greetings like golden Pollen sinking on the afternoon breeze. In service stairs the sweet corruption thrives; The page [...]

  157. Tim Tebow Prays at National Prayer Breakfast

    → La Shawn Barber's Corner | 4 Feb 2010 | 9:59 am MST

    Check out this 22-year-old giving the closing prayer at today’s National Prayer Breakfast: When I was his age, I was a fornicating, unambitious drunk (sounds really bad when I put it that way; wait a second…it was!) who wouldn’t have spoken about anything in front of anybody, no matter how much you paid me. What [...]

  158. A Podcast of Possible Energy Futures

    → Gregor.us | 2 Feb 2010 | 3:15 pm MST

    Eric Garland of Competitive Futures in Washington, DC advises corporations and helps them develop a strategy for the longer term view. He is also an experienced broadcaster and interviewer. And in this hour-long podcast recorded this week, Eric manages to extract from me a number of my own calls on our energy future. I also [...]

  159. NYT: Pro-Aborts on ‘Wrong Track’ on Tim Tebow Ad

    → La Shawn Barber's Corner | 1 Feb 2010 | 10:37 am MST

    Update: The pro-life message is wonderful, but I’m hoping the Tim Tebow Super Bowl ad somehow smuggles in the Gospel. CBS wouldn’t allow it, of course, but perhaps some of his testimony comes through. *** Great day in the morning! I can hardly believe my eyes. The New York Times calls pro-abortion groups’ shrieking about a pro-life [...]

  160. Republicans in Hollywood

    → La Shawn Barber's Corner | 27 Jan 2010 | 6:29 am MST

    I rarely blog about celebrities because it seems so, you know, shallow. I make an exception for right-leaning celebrities. In 2008, I put up a post about Republican-registered Hollywood folks like Kelsey Grammer, Chuck Norris, Bruce Willis, Jon Voight, Pat Sajak, Angie Harmon and her husband Jason Sehorn, former cornerback for the New York Giants, and [...]

  161. Tim Tebow Lives

    → La Shawn Barber's Corner | 26 Jan 2010 | 6:33 am MST

    Update: Captain Ed says: “Expect to see this kind of hysterical criticism reach a crescendo when the ad airs, and then a quick deflation afterward. It’s just another form of advertising, after all, but instead of a new beer or bar of soap, it advertises faith in a personal and indisputable manner. Personal witness [...]

  162. The Book of Eli: Initial Impressions (Spoilers)

    → La Shawn Barber's Corner | 24 Jan 2010 | 12:11 pm MST

    I wrote this yesterday: Spoiler Warning When I first heard about “The Book of Eli,” my first impression was “must-see.” Denzel Washington and Gary Oldman in the same movie? I’m there. I avoided spoilers, but I remember seeing a headline that the movie was “friendly” to Christians and one calling it offensive or insulting to Christians. I was [...]

  163. Blogs for Life

    → La Shawn Barber's Corner | 22 Jan 2010 | 6:24 am MST

    Thirty-seven years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that women have a constitutional right to privacy to kill their unborn babies. Since then, about 45 million unborn babies have been ripped apart and sucked down sinks, poisoned in utero, etc. That’s called progress. Watch the Blogs for Life Conference, sponsored by the Family Research Council, starting [...]

  164. Brit Hume on the Name of Jesus Christ

    → La Shawn Barber's Corner | 7 Jan 2010 | 7:49 am MST

    When was the last time you heard a secularist react to the name of Allah the way he reacts to the name of Jesus Christ? “You speak the name Jesus Christ…and all hell breaks loose…it has always been thus. It is explosive. And I didn’t even say the name in that way. I simply spoke of [...]

  165. Conceived in Rape

    → La Shawn Barber's Corner | 4 Jan 2010 | 10:26 am MST

    Unlike some who call themselves pro-life, I believe an unborn baby should live even if conceived in rape or incest. That’s just the kind of extremist I am. Carrying a baby conceived in a brutal, illegal, immoral, or ill-advised act has got to be tough, whether you want him or not. But this is where [...]

  166. McCain's GOP support showing more cracks

    → Top Political Headlines | 29 Oct 2008 | 12:28 pm MDT

    Republican unity behind presidential nominee John McCain is fracturing and the infighting likely presages a battle for the GOP's soul should he lose the general election next week.

  167. Palin calls for break from Bush energy policy

    → Top Political Headlines | 29 Oct 2008 | 12:24 pm MDT

    Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin is calling for a "clean break" from the Bush administration's energy policies, which she says relied too much on importing foreign oil.

  168. Palin manages to govern Alaska from afar

    → Top Political Headlines | 29 Oct 2008 | 11:49 am MDT

    A state that is remote from the U.S. mainland is essentially being run by remote control.

  169. Now on TV, Obama the inescapable

    → Top Political Headlines | 29 Oct 2008 | 10:27 am MDT

    Barack Obama will be a one-man television blitz on Wednesday, saturating prime-time with a 30-minute ad and popping up on the buzzy late-night TV scene.

  170. Palin to fly home to Alaska to vote in election

    → Top Political Headlines | 29 Oct 2008 | 9:52 am MDT

    Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin plans to fly back to her home in Alaska to vote in next week's election.

  171. AP EXCLUSIVE: Obama ahead or tied in 8 key states

    → Top Political Headlines | 29 Oct 2008 | 8:31 am MDT

    Barack Obama, gunning for a national landslide, now leads in four states won by President Bush in 2004 and is essentially tied with John McCain in two other Republican red states, according to new AP-GfK battleground polling.

  172. McCain links economy and national security

    → Top Political Headlines | 29 Oct 2008 | 8:23 am MDT

    Republican John McCain, scrambling after one of the biggest battlegrounds of the presidential election, is touting his history on national security and trying to link the issue of the country's safety to the financial meltdown.

  173. Election sure to change face of Senate

    → Top Political Headlines | 29 Oct 2008 | 5:20 am MDT

    One certainty of next Tuesday's ballot will be the elevation of the first sitting senator to the White House since John F. Kennedy in 1961. It also ensures that the Senate is going to see another new face next year in addition to those who win election next week.

  174. Democrat could win House seat once Cheney's

    → Top Political Headlines | 29 Oct 2008 | 5:19 am MDT

    In a conservative town in one of the country's most conservative states, the Democrat running for Vice President Dick Cheney's old House seat isn't having a hard time finding supporters.

  175. Next president faces unknowns on Iraq

    → Top Political Headlines | 29 Oct 2008 | 5:16 am MDT

    When they talk about Iraq and Afghanistan, Barack Obama and John McCain speak with the certainty of men who know what they believe and what they plan to do. Good luck on that: Reality is sure to tangle and vastly complicate the next president's job no matter who wins.



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