Alliance of Women Film Journalists (Free subscription) | yesterday
Anyone with even a passing acquaintance with the world of marijuana has met a Saul Silver, the ditzy, burn-out pot dealer James Franco embodies so perfectly in the hysterically funny “Pineapple Express.” Of that group, only a tiny subset would have given more than five minutes Worth of thought to what makes a Saul Silver [...]
California Progress Report (Free subscription) | yesterday
By Mary Lyon Hey, I realize John McCain has a thing for young blondes, but this is ridiculous. To...
Worship Worthy (Free subscription) | 08/01/2008
Just got back from 10 days in Hong Kong! … That’s why you’ve been missing us a bit. We needed that nice long vacation, but we’re back. While we were out there we met with a couple factories for some accessories we have looming in our horizons. And, of course, the main [...]
Plastic: Most Recent (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Plastic::Etcetera::Sports: Will this be the second coming of Joe Montana to the Kansas City Chiefs, or does the star of "There's Something About Mary" have what it takes to scramble back to the playoffs one more time?
News: Moldova.org: Politics (Free subscription) | yesterday
Plane rights at New Jersey's Newark Liberty Airport will be auctioned in part to gauge their Worth, U.S. Transportation Secretary Mary Peters said Tuesday.The right to operate a single round trip flight will be auctioned for a five-year lease on Sept. 3, Peters said in a news release.This auction will allow us to implement market mechanisms on a small scale, gauge interest and determine a slot's market...
Democratic Underground (Free subscription) | yesterday
Source: [b]WaPo[/b] Bundler Collects From Unlikely Donors A fundraiser for Sen. John McCain has gotten donations from some people uninterested in the election. (By Mary Altaffer -- Associated Press) By Matthew Mosk Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, August 6, 2008; Page A01 The bundl...
Comics Should Be Good! (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
The first part of Final Crisis comes to an end, and it does so in a most unconventional manner, as has been the case for the entirety of this series, really. Like the rest of this series, unconventional is tantamount to awesome, as this end of Act I is one of the most effectively foreboding [...]
caribousmom (Free subscription) | 08/03/2008
August 3, 2008 10:15 AM I slept later than usual this morning, then took my coffee back to bed to read for a while. Ah, glorious! Since the last Salon posting, I finished The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff (read my review), The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows (read [...]
Celebslam (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008 | Entertainment
Morgan Freeman’s accident scene I think we can agree that everyone’s overreacting about Morgan Freeman’s car accident on Sunday night. It doesn’t look that bad to me. Wait, what’s that? A Nissan Maxima’s roof isn’t actually supposed to be three feet from the ground? My bad. NOTE: As for Freeman, he’s currently recovering in the hospital with [...]
Law Blog - WSJ.com (Free subscription) | 08/01/2008
Mary Jacoby and John R. Emshwiller report on campaign finance. Former President Bill Clinton earned $10 million last year giving speeches at business gatherings and motivational seminars while his wife was running for the Democratic presidential nomination, new disclosures show. Goldman Sachs, McKinsey & Co., Cisco Systems, Citigroup and Autodesk Inc. were among the corporations that [...]
Later On (Free subscription) | 08/03/2008
Good article by Janet Raloff in Science News. Worth reading. From the article: … Borrowing from Shakespeare, Sen. Ben Nelson (one of the gang) argued that the dilemma being fought over will no longer pivot around whether “to drill or not to drill. That’s no longer the question.” Added his Senate colleague Mary Landrieu: “This bill will [...]
One Old Vet (Free subscription) | 08/03/2008
He had extraordinary career as lawman Kimberly Matas Going undercover as an opium addict to bust up a drug den or nabbing a shoplifter with $1.18 Worth of frozen fish stuffed in his shirt — it didn’t matter. The law was the law, and Joe Berumi enforced it. Yet he easily could have lived life on the other [...]
Out Of Left Field (Free subscription) | 08/02/2008
Notes on our athletes/teams of interest from The 613... Gee-Gees: The Hamilton Spectator noted on Friday that the OUA's fourth-leading receiver last season, Steven Hughes, "will be transferring" from York to Ottawa. Hughes would have to sit out a year as a transfer, but he's playing junior football in Hamilton in the meantime. He would probably be a very good fit at a school that's made a few
Springfield MO Soccer (Free subscription) | 07/31/2008
Missed this announcement back in late May but it’s Worth posting now. From the St Louis Post-Dispatch: In 1980, St. Mary’s High senior Keith Meyer was honored by Parade magazine as its high school boys player of the year. This year’s All-America team, which will be featured in the Parade Magazine in the [...]
TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 08/01/2008
My Big OE - Europe and Beyond!
