Time Warner has announced that it is selling the magazine that gave it its first name, Time. The company, which will mainly just consist of HBO and some other TV properties, will also throw in People and Sports Illustrated. This comes on the heels of
I posted about this possibility before, but now pro-abortion folks are getting nervous about health care reform. The Atlantic blog reports that the laws against taxpayer money going for abortion may well mean that if health care reform gets passed, insurance companies would have to
Astronaut Jeff Williams is blasting off into space today on a Russian rocket, headed to the International Space Station where he will spend 6 months. This will be his third space voyage and his second 6 month stint on the space station. He will be
President Obama is stumping for his hometown of Chicago in its bid for the 2016 Olympics. That’s fine. Chicago would be a good choice. Other cities in contention include Madrid, Tokyo, and Rio de Janeiro. If not Chicago, let’s have it in Brazil. South America
Some employees of the taxpayer-funded National Science Foundation are not spending their days doing science. The agency is reportedly plagued with a pornography epidemic. Employee misconduct investigations, often involving workers accessing pornography from their government computers, grew sixfold last year inside the taxpayer-funded foundation that
More of my correspondence with David Davalos, author of the play Wittenberg, shared with his permission. My answer to his answer: Fair enough, David. I get what you are trying to do. It just seems that a Faustus without the devil is hardly a Faustus–like
Boston University professor Andrew J. Bacevich argues in the Washington Post that we should abandon the hot war in Iraq and Afghanistan. Instead, we should move to a cold war against our adversaries, beating them in the same we beat the Soviets, through an ideological
In our discussion of Bob Dylan’s upcoming Christmas album a few days ago, some of you maintained that the one true Bob does not have a good voice, that while he is a fine songwriter, the man just can’t sing. I know what you mean,
Picking up on my exchange with David Davalos, author of Wittenberg–the play about Luther, Hamlet, and Faustus, this is his answer to what I posted yesterday: Gene, Again, thank you so much for your thoughts and encouragement. Emerson to Whitman? Wow. You may of course
Last week we blogged about Dan Brown’s new book, which, despite its awful writing and worse themes, is destined to sell untold millions of copies. We contrasted that with the new novel by Lars Walker, who hangs out at this blog, which is very well
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