Popular conservative publication Investor’s Business Daily ran a piece against health care reform saying that the much talked about end of life counseling piece would have terrible repercussions and stated that people like noted professor Steven Hawking “wouldn’t have a chance” in such a system. “People such as scientist Stephen Hawking wouldn’t have a chance in the U.K., where the National Health Service woul
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leport out of there with your microscopic teleportation unit that you built from random bits of bread and jelly. Me? I’d rock back-and-forth until the blender tipped over. It’s thick glass so it won’t break. 2. “What is the philosophy of Martial Arts?” This was for a sales associate question and seems like a bad question. I don’t know the answer and there clearly is an answer but eliminating great candidates with a clear t
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The VP of Iraq wants a timetable for US troops withdrawal. The President of Iraq supports this request. However, every time anyone mentions removing troops from Iraq, the Right goes into it’s pre-recorded mantra of labeling them with the concept of supporting “cut and run” policies. Of course this sounds cowardly and foolish, which is exactly the point. It never seems to dawn on these idiots that supporting our troops means tha
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…. In the biggest testament to her true make-up she again failed heavily. Near the end of the debate Joe Biden was put in a position where he felt he needed to touch on the tragedy that had befallen his family back when he was 29. Biden was clearly moved and choked-up and really connected with many. When the response period moved quickly back to Palin she offered no comment, no response, no sympathy—nothing. She just went right to more talking poi
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…offer. You’ve got to admire a guy that can be that successful for that long while also changing roles to boot. His current film as director is Changeling. It’s a surprising story about a real event that started in 1928. To tell you about the plot is to expose a bit too much. Suffice to say that the event is an emotional one involving a mother and her son and the truly infamous interactions with the corrupt and inept Los Angeles police
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…t where you want to know more about it and become aware of the options open to you, there’s essentially a decade-long timer that starts ticking. For most people this starts around the age of 15. Thus, from age 15 to age 25 (again, for the average person), you’re forming your connections to music and that decade will stay with you as your pinnacle of the medium. Your favorite bands tend to come from that period. If you come to music la
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Today on the way into my office I was listening to Glenn Beck (it’s great if you think of it as a parody in an alternate universe). He spent half-an-hour going on about a report from the National Inflation Association (a group I’ve never before heard of). Their report noted that the impact of recent Fed plans to boost the economy will drive up inflation to such a degree that we’ll have bread prices of $23 and $15 for a single H
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ying is that his plans would push coal plants to move to clean coal technologies which everyone wants. Furthermore, John McCain has said pretty much the same exact thing and when his proposal on the issue came to the floor on 2005 Republican Senator George Voinvich said, “Mr. President, the McCain Amendment will put coal out of business by forcing fuel-switching to natural gas.” These guys are unbelievably desperate. They know there a
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One thing that bugs me intensely about Sean Hannity is the way he purposely bathes himself in his own aura and attempts to claim patriotic superiority above others. His logo for his site shows him looking skyward (heavenward) draped by a backdrop of an American flag. His radio show opens with a call-to-arms song as if he were Paul Revere in a suit. He made it a shtick on his show to have his callers continually refer to him a “Great Americ
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…at threatens to destroy all the rest of what remains. They hire security expert Mike Dixon (Jason’s Dad) to help them get answers. The film immediately reminded me of two other films in style — Steven Soderbergh’s 2000 film Traffic and Paul Haggis’ 2004 drama Crash. All three use similar elements and approaches to telling their stories. Even the look is similar with each story getting a slightly different stylization. The proble
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