Talking Points Memo (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago | Election 2008
As a general matter, I think there are far too few uses of executive clemency, commutation and pardon in our current criminal justice system. But here's a case of one gone awry that may end up having real political ramifications....
Michelle Malkin (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago | Politics
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Instapundit.com (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago | Sciences
CLIMATEGATE: FROM JIM TREACHER, A friendly chat with the global warming evangelist who lives in my head. Related: The worst scientific scandal of our generation? Plus, the dog ate my climate change data! “SCIENTISTS at the University of East Anglia (UEA) have admitted throwing away much of the raw temperature data on which their [...]
Lawyers, Guns and Money (Free subscription) | yesterday | Sports
The Tiger Woods incident provides an interesting glimpse into the world of celebrity image making, and the corporate and media interests that enable it. Woods got into a minor car accident early Friday morning after he was apparently attacked by his enraged wife. She seems to have smashed in the back window of his SUV with a couple of golf clubs as he tried to flee their home at 2:30 AM. Woods was...
The Corner (Free subscription) | yesterday | Other
The most obvious thing that strikes anyone wading through the CRU documents is how easy it was for a small number of "experts" to propel their data-raped conclusions first into a "peer-reviewed" "consensus" and then up through western governments into the international fait accomplis of Kyoto, the IPCC and now Copenhagen. I initially assumed stuff like this was just a...
The Corner (Free subscription) | yesterday | Politics
Today's NYT says that food-stamp usage grows by about 20,000 people per day: MARTINSVILLE, Ohio — With food stamp use at record highs and climbing every month, a program once scorned as a failed welfare scheme now helps feed one in eight Americans and one in four children. ... While the numbers have soared during the recession, the path was cleared in better times when the Bush administration...
PSP Fanboy (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago | Video Games
It could happen this week, it could happen next week, but sometime in the month of December, Ubisoft will decide to liberate Avatar from the shackles of game development. And when that happens, we're prepared to go directly online and start popping 10-foot blue things with our big human weapons. This is about survival, ya dig? It appears that in addition to simply plugging bullets into the creatures,...
PREA Prez (Free subscription) | yesterday | Other
By all accounts, Risha Mullins is a terrific high school English teacher. She has her students read the classics: The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer and Beowulf. She has received praise and awards for for launching the student “Moo Moo Book Club” at Montgomery County High School. She also has arranged for students to visit [...]
TechCrunch (Free subscription) | yesterday | Technology
Earlier this month we did a preview of Tweetie 2.1 , the latest version of the popular iPhone Twitter client. Today, it has just hit the App Store as a free download for Tweetie 2 owners. While the .1 increment may make it seem like this update isn't that big of a deal, the latest version actually packs a number of big updates. Previously, we went over the way Tweetie 2.1 integrates new-style Retweets...
Nah Right (Free subscription) | yesterday | Music
From rock group 30 Seconds To Mars’ This Is War (12/8) album. You might remember this collabo was revealed in April, when Kanye posted a photo with the band’s frontman Jared Leto. 30 Seconds To Mars feat. Kanye West - Hurricane 30-seconds-to-mars-feat-kanye-west-hurricane … sounds 808 & Heartbreak-ish. Previously: Kanye West - I’m So Appalled (prod. No I.D. & Kanye...
Red State (Free subscription) | yesterday | Other
I suppose this is just a testament to how well Obama’s economic recovery plan is going: 1 in 8 Americans is now on food stamps - and 1 in 4 children are. I remember the bad old days of the Bush economy, when millions of Americans were forced to rely on private sector jobs to pay for their food. Those benighted days are past: now more and more Americans get their food money from Uncle Sam. And...
frankwu (Free subscription) | 11/28/2009 | Other
The TAFF (Trans-Atlantic Fan Fund) auctions continue! I've posted to ebay the Tuckerization auctions (in which you get to bid on the naming rights of a minor character in a novel or story by a famous author!). The auctions for Tuckerizations from Cory Doctorow , Charlie Stross , Nalo Hopkinson , David Brin , Elizabeth Bear , Julie Czerneda and Mary Robinette Kowal are up! (I will shortly also be adding...
TechCrunch (Free subscription) | 11/28/2009 | Technology
While Black Friday has long been a popular phenomenon for brick and mortar stores, the deal frenzy has been extending to e-retailers and online stores. Now, sales on the web are equally as lucrative as those in the stores. eBay is launching a campaign to capitalize on the holiday shopping season, called "12 Days Of Deals," and has also rolled out a new Deal-focused iPhone app and partnered...
PerezHilton.com (Free subscription) | yesterday | Celebrity
After suffering a reported alcohol-related seizure on Friday night, The Hoff has been placed on an involuntary psychiatric hold at Cedars-Sinai!! Our poor Hoff! It seems Hasselhoff was at the tail end of a "several-day-bender" when the former Baywatch star was rushed to the hospital because he began seizuring. The doctors at Cedars-Sinai agreed that The Hoff [...]
Gizmodo (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago | Technology
Dear anonymous buyer of the $3,164,000 iPhone 3GS Supreme , the most expensive and tacky cellphone in the world: You are a tasteless assclown. Sincerely, Me. P.S. I don't care that you are a rich Australian business man in the gold mining industry. I don't care that you are so rich that paying $3,164,000 for this ridiculous piece of gold and diamond tackiness probably doesn't even register in your...
