Clinton sleeps on floor so elder Bush can have bed Sunday, March 6, 2005 Posted: 6:28 PM EST (2328 GMT) NEW YORK (AP) — On their tour of tsunami damage in Southeast Asia, former President Bill Clinton once allowed his predecessor, former President George H.W. Bush, to sleep on the plane’s only bed while he stretched out on the floor.

The ACC’s braindead new primary/rotating partner two-step has been released, and the halfwits in charge have embraced the challenge of scheduling hoops in a football conference the way a Trekkie might embrace a supermodel. That is, with as much uncalled-for complexity and awkwardness as possible. In the process, they’re doing all they can to destroy five decades of tradition. Look,

Remarkable timing, this, given that drdenny and I were just discussing the question of what is a journalist anymore. A California judge has issued a tentative ruling that Apple Computer can force three blogging sites to divulge their sources, according to reports.In the preliminary ruling, issued Thursday, a Santa Clara County Superior Court judge said that the three blogging sites,

I’m not sure this is the actual 7th Sign, but I’m pretty sure it’s mentioned somewhere in Revelation: Mar 3, 2005 — HOUSTON (Reuters) – Former Secretary of State James Baker, a close ally of the Bush family, broke ranks with the Bush administration on Thursday and called for the United States to get serious about global warming. Baker, in

— Clear Channel suffers and rock radio is gasping its last and, more importantly, does anyone care? Thx to breezyg for passing on Mark Morford’s analysis of the passing of terrestrial radio. Morford is appropriately brutal: Corporate radio sucketh, whole and large and true. We know this. Everyone knows this. There is not a single person out there right now

Frank Rich’s take this morning on the appalling state of The News oughta be mandatory reading: What’s missing from News is the news. On ABC, Peter Jennings devotes two hours of prime time to playing peek-a-boo with U.F.O. fanatics, a whorish stunt crafted to deliver ratings, not information. On NBC, Brian Williams is busy as all get-out, as every promo

Just got the latest memo from Hoffman and her new towel-boy. Please note their references to “sweeping changes.” And, just for fun, see if you slog your way deep enough through the muck to uncover any actual substance here. Good luck. I’ve worked in corporate PR and am well able to distinguish between communication and a carefully crafted attempt not

[Credit: Thanks to Dee Forsythe of the Pit’s New England Sports Desk for this “wry take on the decision-making process here in Massachusetts.”] Funny stuff. Of course, we had a different problem when I was a kid. Our decisions were being made a half-hour away, down at the school board offices in Lexington. So what was going on up in

sirpaulsbuddy has a dead-on take this morning on the Wal*Martization of America. At what point does the reality begin to set in that maybe, just maybe, we’ve allowed power elites who don’t care about anything but their own wallets to imprison us with our own ideology and rhetoric? Seriously – how stupid are we as a country?

[Thx to the pit’s institutional journalism correspondent, Pat Vecchio, for passing this on.] InsideHigherEd.com, a new competitor to the Chronicle of High Ed, is hitting the ground running, looks like. They have a nice look here at how Rutgers is attempting to squash a student investigative piece examining special treatment for athletes. Remember the good old days when colleges were

NEW YORK (CNN/Money) – Just as legal music downloading is taking off in earnest, the major record labels are in talks to raise the price they charge online retailers for song downloads, a newspaper reported Monday. And this is the line of the day: “I think whoever came up with this idea understands the online music industry about as well

It’s remarkable how much can go through your head in a really short period of time. (It’s equally remarkable how little can go through some people’s heads in a very long period of time, but I digress.) This morning I got an e-mail from Brian at daedalnexus, and I quickly registered the headline and blurb: Don’t Blame Wal-Mart Wal-Mart has

The muse hasn’t abandoned me entirely. __________________________ Certainty 1. Breach – tree-spined, arcing down the Four Mile, north, toward the river. dis / connect snowfall from swerving ridgeline hill from hollow moon from fractured day limping home on splints of headlight 2. Kitchen light imp of wick and tallow warms the plane and groove of hand-tooled oak. Our grandfathers are

bruce_schneier is dead on today: The TSA likes to measure its success by looking at the forbidden items they have prevented from being carried onto aircraft, but that’s wrong. Every time the TSA takes a pocketknife from an innocent person, that’s a security failure. It’s a false alarm. The system has prevented access where no prevention was required. Right. And

[Thx to ultimate_seeker for passing this item on.] Cell companies ready to roll out new virtual girlfriend on 3G networks Men, are you tired of the time, trouble and expense of having a girlfriend? Irritated by the difficulty of finding a new one? Eberhard Schöneburg, the chief executive of the software maker Artificial Life Inc. of Hong Kong, may have