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Like everybody else who watched the first episode of Rock Star: INXS the other night, I tuned in for the trainwreck. You know, over-the-hill band that doesn’t know it’s dead yet desperately seeking one more cheap cash-in, etc. A high-gloss version of the state fair circuit But oddly, that show wasn’t on.

I mentioned this once before, but want to say it again. Joe Gandelman’s The Moderate Voice is simply one of the best sites in the blogosphere. He gives vent to commentary from all corners, and his own takes are as smart and well-informed as anything I’ve seen. Check them out, bookmark them, plug them into your RSS reader, whatever. Right

Karl Rove’s lawyer tells National Review Online that Matthew Cooper set Rove up. 1: If so, Cooper is my new hero. 2: You can’t burn an honest man. Just sayin’, is all…

Today’s question is President George W. Bush. LP: Mr. President, in two separate instances in autumn of 2003 you and your spokesman, Scott McLellan, made clear that if whoever leaked the name of Valerie Plame to the press worked at the White House, that person would be fired. Since we abhor those who would give aid and comfort to America’s

My item on the alleged thimerosol/autism link yesterday elicited a lot of feedback, and a majority of it was negative. Which is fine – we aims to incite debate. I got an e-mail today from my good friend, Dr. Will Bower, a medical officer and world class expert on viral hepatitis at a prominent federal health organization (we’re not mentioning

My Dearest SK, Am in receipt of your missive of July 11, and am surely blessed to have reacquired your friendship after these many years. We are especially glad to hear that things are going so well for you in the Carolinas, and we anticipate calling on you there perhaps in late August or early September. Also, I’m grateful for

Today’s question is for presumed 2k8 White House hopeful Bill Frist, R-TN. LP: Sen. Frist, if the bubbling allegations that thimerosal causes or significantly contributes to autism prove true, how much of the $900,000 you’ve received from your good friends at pharmaceutical companies like Eli Lilly would you be willing to contribute to help cover the triilion-plus dollar costs of

Here’s a load of horsewax. Report: Sarbanes-Oxley could threaten security Published: July 11, 2005, 12:52 PM PDT By Steve Ranger Special to CNET News.com The multimillion-dollar cost of complying with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act is diverting spending away from protecting against other security threats, according to a new report. The Information Security Forum, an international security association, said Monday that it

Yeeouch. Nicked from nevermind6794 over in . Here’s a sample: “You can support the troops but not the president.” -Representative Tom Delay (R-TX) Then it gets better….

This is just beyond ugly. A new analysis from Pulitzer and Peabody winning investigative reporter John Hanchette, currently of the Niagara Falls Reporter, connects some of the dots linking Big Pharma and future presidential candidate Bill Frist to the vaccine preservative thimerosal, which is being incresingly linked to the current explosion of autism cases in the US and abroad (“If

WashPost columnist David Ignatius says it far more briefly than I did. Bad Case for a Fight By David Ignatius Friday, July 8, 2005; Page A23 As a journalist, I’m angry that Judith Miller of the New York Times is in jail today for trying to protect a confidential source. But I am also angry that the press has allowed

Thank god they nabbed this woman. I suspect she’s probably not the only one out there, either…. AKRON, OH—Area resident Helen Crandall, 44, was arrested by Akron police Sunday, charged with conducting an elaborate “sex for security” scam in which she allegedly defrauded husband Russell Crandall out of nearly $230,000 in cash, food, clothing and housing over the past 19

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Did MTV get the message in the aftermath of their abominable show-day coverage of the VJs attending Live 8? I wouldn’t bet the farm on it. But right now they’re playing McCartney’s set, which was preceded by the entirety of the Floyd set, which was preceded by what I think was the entirety of the Who set (I tuned in

I’ve watched and read and listened to a whole lot on the Valerie Plame/Wilson case, which has now landed one reporter (Judith Miller of the NY Times) in jail and whipped the entirety of the journalism establishment into a hellacious frenzy over what they see as an egregious assault on the press freedom. And for the longest time I’ve been