The Florida Highway Patrol is trying to obtain a search warrant for medical records of Tiger Woods to determine if the wounds the golf great sustained early Friday morning are consistent with a car accident or domestic violence. Authorities believe they can show probable cause a crime was committed, a necessary step in obtaining a warrant to search the hospital that treated him. That probable cause...
If you’ve been eagerly waiting for the Crunchpad to be launched, you’re going to be disappointed at the news that the final version of the Crunchpad may never see the light of day. Apparently Fusion Garage, the company that Michael Arrington of TechCrunch teamed up with to build the CrunchPad reneged on their deal and are planning to see the CrunchPad directly. Of course, we haven’t...
The Eigenharp, a crazy, science fiction instrument from Eigenlabs, comes on two forms, the "Alpha" ("Our professional level instrument allows the musician to play and improvise using a limitless range of sounds with virtuoso skill. It has 120 playing keys, 12 percussion keys, two strip controllers and a breath pipe. Available in a variety of custom finishes.") and the "Pico"...
It isn’t even December yet, but Microsoft’s Bing search engine is already announcing its top ten most searched topics of 2009, as well as the two celebrities that were binged more than actress Megan Fox. The new Microsoft “decision engine” has only been in service since June, but Bing has apparently analyzed billions of search queries in order to create a list of the ten most...
Do our beliefs form the basis of our partisan and ideological affiliations? Or is it vice versa? There's been a lot of recent evidence not only that Republicans disproportionately disbelieve the evidence for man-made global warming but that their skepticism...
As you know, Newsweek editor Jon Meacham has taken a fair amount of flak for arguing that Dick Cheney should be taken seriously as a 2012 contender because he’s a “man of conviction” who has a “record on which he can be judged.” Here’s a data point that makes this fantasy seem even more far-fetched [...]
Sizemore joins Santonio Holmes and Jeff Reed in the pantheon of Rust Belt athletes who take dong shots in the mirror with their cell phones. Grady's Ladies have declared a national holiday. These...
Today’s elections in Honduras was a huge victory for democracy and a huge embarrassement for the former leftist President Manuel Zelaya and the Obama White House. Despite the fact that Zelaya urged Hondurans to stay home to protest the vote, the freedom-loving Hondurans turned out to vote in record numbers. A turnout of more than 60% was [...]
Photograph of Rachel Uchitel (with Gloria Allred) after flying from NYC to LA by David Zentz/AP The mother of Rachel Uchitel, the woman suspected of having an affair with Tiger Woods, told Newsday , " I think she has a very good heart, and that heart was broken on 9/11. She's had a very tough life... whatever direction she's gone off on may have been not good for her.. Underneath it there's a...
Hillsdale College Professor Paul Rahe writes: I am not a great admirer of Peggy Noonan as a journalist. Most of the time, she aims at capturing a mood, and I generally find the lack of analysis and the sentimentalism so visible in her work offputting. There are, however, moments when she hits the ball out of the park, and she did so just a few days ago in The Wall Street Journal . Noonan began by...
Rick Warren, pastor of Saddleback Church, has a unique way of viewing a global ministry. Warren sees his mission as being of a scope that does not stop at national borders. He seeks Purpose Driven Nations to comprise his Purpose Driven World. And Warren is not hesitant to interfere in international religious divisions or [...]
DOWNLOADS: (37) PLAYS: (204) Just doing my best here to help Digby achieve her life's work . I plan to make it my life's work to remind Chris Matthews of these little exchanges. It was the day that Matthews revealed that he and the other media whores were not just shilling for the GOP for professional reasons, but that they actually had a barely contained (and inexplicable) sexual attraction to George...
The Hill reports that President Obama's Afghanistan troop decision could face resistance from Democrats and Republicans alike in the House of Representatives. Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-AZ), "co-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, said a resolution of disapproval would be the 'next logical step.'" "Although House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a staunch supporter of the President, may...