Indeed – it’s been 40 years since Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band was released. My buddy Jim Booth (who some of you may know as sirpaulsbuddy), a novelist, professor, blogger and former rock musician who got to live through it all, has a great take over at Scholars & Rogues.
Read moreWell, what were the chances of this happening? Odd twist in TB alert: Patient is TB researcher’s son-in-law May 31, 2007 (CIDRAP News) – As information piled up in the case of a man with a rare and dangerous form of tuberculosis (TB) who took multiple international air trips, it was revealed today that he is a lawyer and the
Read moreYou don’t really look to Bill O’Reilly for coherence, intelligence or even the most basic grasp of reality. But if you’re like me, you do occasionally fantasize that there are limits to his craziness, or at least to the things that he’ll say out loud. But check out what he says in this interview with John McCain.
Read moreBoy howdy, The Dick’s lesbian daughter and her “partner” done pizzizzled off The Parents Group. I hate to actually excerpt anything from this release because it’s all so good, but let me see if I can find an especially juicy bit. Ah, here’s one: If the Vice President and his wife Lynne are joining their daughter Mary in playing this
Read moreIn my series of posts on the whole melamine poisoning issue recently you might recall me breaking off the term “e Coli conservatives” in talking about how our regulatory function has been co-opted by people who see protecting industry as a more important calling than protecting, you know, us. Well, y’all are gonna love this latest development. U.S. government fights
Read moreIn my series of posts on the whole melamine poisoning issue recently you might recall me breaking off the term “e Coli conservatives” in talking about how our regulatory function has been co-opted by people who see protecting industry as a more important calling than protecting, you know, us. Well, y’all are gonna love this latest development. U.S. government fights
Read moreI was reading a Seattle Times story earlier today on how men in their 30s are earning less than their fathers did. An interesting story top to bottom, but the concluding section drew me back around to something that I really haven’t talked about enough lately – the looming generational macro-succession nightmare facing corporate America. (Read the rest at Black
Read moreIf you follow the NFL at all you know that the league has a new commissioner, Roger Goodell, and that he’s apparently made it his mission to clean up the league’s little crime problem. His early actions suggest he’s serious about it, too. He dropped an 8-game ban on Cincinnati Bengals wide recidivist receiver Chris Henry and busted Tennessee Titans
Read moreVirek must have seen it too; he screamed, and Baron Samedi, Lord of Graveyards, the loa whose kingdom was death, leaned in across Barcelona like a cold dark rain. – William Gibson, Count Zero I miss Hunter Thompson. Always, but especially on days like today, where I’m contemplating what the Democratic leadership has done to the sense of relief I
Read moreWent to a Chinese place the other night. Good food. Fortune cookie arrives: Very often you cannot help thinking of somebody. It’s … it’s … like they know me….
Read moreSt. Louis Cardinals pitcher Josh Hancock was recently killed in a tragic automobile accident. You probably saw the story. Now, his father has (yeah, here comes the stunner) filed a lawsuit. Suit claims restaurant kept giving intoxicated pitcher drinks Associated Press Updated: May 24, 2007, 4:14 PM ETST. LOUIS — The father of Josh Hancock filed suit Thursday, claiming a
Read moreFor a few moments there it seemed like the new Dem “leadership” had really gotten its act together. Now, though, it begins to look like they’re the very gutless dupes that Republicans have been telling us they are for so long. They have “reached out” to President Bush, and using a mandate backed by a good 70% of the public
Read moreFor those of you who missed it, S&R’s Denny Wilkins was on with David Goldstein of HorsesAss.org, who hosts a show on 710 KIRO in Seattle every Saturday and Sunday night. The subject was the media’s rapt fascination with the two wayward whales that are currently swimming in circles north of Rio Vista. Denny posted a pretty insightful take on
Read moreBeen doing some work on my biz blog this evening, and I might as well point those of you interested in subjects like customer service (as in, “why does customer service at every damned company I have to deal with suck so bad?”) to something I just posted. In essence, I’m just sick of people pretending that certain kinds of
Read moreTo some extent, science has always been more shaped by political realities and pressures than we usually admit. After all, science is “objective,” done properly, and when we look at a scientific study we like to think we’re looking at the best approximation of fact and truth possible at the present moment. Of course, this is hardly so. Say you
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