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I'm already so sick the constant Perry Watch, and it's only August 2011. We may have to get through MONTHS of this.  If you do even a modicum of research, you'll find an interesting article about "Brain Biases & News" and see that people who are deemed attractive by our shallow US standards generally are considered Teflon-coated and given a "pass" on many things. (http://www.brainbiases.com/2008/11/beautiful-people-bias.html) That's one reason Sarah Palin won't go away, and why we're going...

ForeWord Reviews awarded Silver for Book of the Year to Disaster on the Horizon, High Stakes, High Risks, and the Story Behind the Deepwater Well Blowout....

This is one of those stories that makes you do a double take. Domonique Ramirez (the reigning Ms. San Antonio) was recently reinstated as Ms. San Antonio. The jury ended a bizarre case where the pageant tried unsuccessfully to argue that they had cause to dethrone Ramirez. The pageant argued that she did not show up on time to appointments and was otherwise derelict in her duties. Trace back any beauty queen that is removed and...

  Normally I'm too much of a cheapskate careful manager of my personal finances to pay for premium channels like HBO. But since U-verse is giving me 3 months free, I was able to catch a program over the weekend that I would highly recommend. It's entitled "Thurgood" and stars Laurence Fishburne in a one-man performance as former Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. Here's the HBO trailer:     Here's an interview with Laurence...

Protests in Egypt are ongoing.It is always of value to get the liberal viewpoint on the great world issues.(Above--The Nation.)Below are some liberal sources to read about events in Egypt. The link is either to a specific article or to a package of writings about Egypt.  In any case, it would be of value to explore the sites linked to in this post.The American Prospect is monthly magazine of liberal opinion and policy. I have a...

In two non-political news items of the day, another good reason to watch the games at home:"Almost one in 10 sports fans has a blood alcohol content above the legal limit as they exit the stadium after football and baseball games, a study found...The research, which involved giving breath tests to 362 attendees of 13 baseball and 3 football games, also found that 40 percent had been drinking, according to the report in the journal....

I suspect many of you had the same reaction I did when Keith Olbermann said before going to commercial that last night would be Countdown's "final edition." What? No way. My first thought was that it must be some kind of gag, or maybe a play on words. The anchor of the highest rated show on the network who is in the middle of a 4-year contract wouldn't just abruptly leave. But it turned out...

Harry Weber, a reporter for the AP, disputed the New York Times' BP well blowout story the we posted on Sunday.  Calling some of their claims "patently false", Weber asserted that many facts that the Times reported as new had actually been reported by the AP as early as May.   While I thought the Times story was an excellent recount with very good graphics, I have to agree that much of the story had already...

From Media Matters: At the height of the health care reform debate last fall, Bill Sammon, Fox News' controversial Washington managing editor, sent a memo directing his network's journalists not to use the phrase "public option." Instead, Sammon wrote, Fox's reporters should use "government option" and similar phrases -- wording that a top Republican pollster had recommended in order to turn public opinion against the Democrats' reform efforts. Journalists on the network's flagship news program,...