I Am A TV Junkie, A Blog For The Cl (Free subscription) | 29/11/2009
Interesting that a British paper (albeit the politically liberal one) is talking about Beck and the birthers and teabaggers and the paranoid delusions of the former alcoholic, ADHD-er, Mormon who...
Nasir Khan blog (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009
Until Chilcot hears UN weapons inspectors’ testimony, the fiction of Britain honestly seeking a WMD smoking gun prevails Scott Ritter, The Guardian/UK, Nov27, 2009 With its troops no longer engaged in military operations inside Iraq, Great Britain has been liberated politically to conduct a postmortem of that conflict , including the sensitive issue of the primary justification used by...
Show & Talk - New York Fashion Week Blog - New York Magazine (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
... you are left with is a very compelling read." That line about the carbs seems unnecessary. [ Guardian UK ] Read more posts by Amy Odell Filed Under: toast of the internet , fashion toast , rumi neely
montreal city weblog (Free subscription) | yesterday
There was a protest today against the project to bring tar sands oil to Montreal for refining. Read about the impact of tar sands oil in George Monbiot's Guardian UK column. It's painful reading.
Vulture (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
... that." — Julian Casablancas on what the Strokes' next album probably won't be like [ Guardian UK ] "Being gay was a topic that was never mentioned when I was your age. We had not really invented the word gay — at school I used to be called Oscar, after Oscar Wilde. If you were gay there was nowhere to go and no one to talk to, there was no other gay person as far as...
beSpacific (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009
Guardian UK - From young Mozart to black holes, 350 years of the Royal Society go online: "Britain's academy of...
Second City Cop (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009
... supposed to submit for "peer review" to see if it stands up? Destroyed. The Telegraph UK - scientists refusing to release any data so others can set up models and see if the results track across alternative theories. The Telegraph UK again - the "climategate" e-mails, all discussing how to get around FOIA requests and how best to destroy incriminating e-mails and files. The...
ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | yesterday
"Unlike adult audiences, children come with no expectation of what they're about to see. That makes for a deliciously free space in which to create work, in which innovation, experimentation and risk can thrive." The Guardian (UK) 11/30/09
ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | yesterday
Timberlake Wertenbaker, whose new play, "The Line," got mixed reviews, "believes that the actors were not given a fair crack of the whip because many of the critics had spent the day being liberally wined and dined at the Evening Standard theatre awards - a four-hour affair ... that involved a champagne reception followed by lunch and as much wine as they wanted to drink." The Guardian (UK)...
ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | yesterday
"Fresh, retrospective analysis of her symptoms, published today, suggests that the author of Pride and Prejudice may have died prematurely of tuberculosis caught from cattle. Examination of Austen's correspondence and the recollections of her family prove, it is claimed, that she was not, as previous medical experts hypothesised, a victim of Addison's disease...." The Guardian (UK) 12/01/09
Another Green World (Free subscription) | 29/11/2009
... their respective powerful lobbies than doing something for the planet. This has been described in The Guardian (UK) as the worlds “most shameless two fingers to the global community” from “a country that sells itself round the world as 'clean and green'”. New Zealand got a pretty sweet deal in the Kyoto agreement, agreeing to hold rather than reduce our rate of greenhouse...
ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009
"It's tempting to see the end of Borders as another consequence of the hurricane that is hitting the usually tranquil boulevards of the British book world. Tempting, but wrong." The Guardian (UK) 11/30/09
Nasir Khan blog (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
The evidence on Iraq is now clear. The former PM was dizzied by Bush, and misled gullible MPs Diane Abbott, The Guardian/UK , Nov 27, 2009 The limitations of the Chilcot inquiry are obvious. It is a group of establishment trusties , evidence will not be on oath and the government is doing its best to keep key documents from the inquiry. Even yesterday, in the very first week of the inquiry,...
Carbon-Based (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
Deborah Orr in the Guardian (UK) : …So far, 16 bridges have been closed or destroyed in Cumbria, taking other utilities – electricity, phone lines – with them. A total of 1,600 bridges are now being inspected, to see if they too are less solid that they seemed a week ago. One entire community has been all but marooned, and a temporary railway station has been erected, to help...
Vulture (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
... flexible her legs are.' This was an 80-year-old nun. Times are changing."— Shakira [ Guardian UK ] "I don't know if you know, but I'm not exactly Bob Dylan — I'm already a pop musician. I'm not on [rock-snob archive label] Razor & Tie. I want to reach as many people as possible. Listen, I can play you Wes Montgomery's Smokin' at the Half Note . I can play you Van...
