Afterlife
The DCeiver (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
Dana Milbank is best known to the world as a guy who got dressed up like some sort of crossing guard because he thought it would make some sort of effortless point about Dick Cheney shooting somebody in the face. But mainly, he only served as the inspiration for halfwit conventional-wisdom regurgitron Mark Halperin to wear a bunch of creepy costumes in his own PageCasts. Anyhoo, Milbank is also a newsman...
Emptybottle.org (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
When you grow up in the far north in Canada, if you're at all curious about the world and the people in it, you can't wait to get out. As soon as you're able, you head out to the big...
Ed Driscoll.com (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
What is it about aging presidents of CBS that seem to assume that the power to run a television network infers immortality? In 1990, Christopher Buckley reviewed Sally Bedell Smith's biography of William S. Paley, and wrote:"WHY do I have...
David Drake (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
Politico : By his own admission this week, “the gray is coming quick,” so that it now dusts his head like snowflakes. [...] The presidency ages presidents, but so, it seems, has the longest campaign in modern history aged a candidate. “By the time I’m sworn in, I will look the part,” Obama acknowledged to donors Wednesday in Colorado Springs, Colo., one month before his 47th birthday. You wouldn't...
SEOCentro - SEO News (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Register reported today that Google Docs disappeared in the cloud computing stratosphere, leaving users hoping for a house call from the Google guys. No word yet on the outage on the official Google Docs blog . Cade Metz noted that Google's Docs and Spreadsheets disappeared today for close to an hour, proving that the world's largest search engine is a long way from perfecting the art of online...
Cruella-blog (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
I've just seen this post over at a My Private Casbah , about a woman left to die on the floor of a psychiatric hospital and Bint Alshamsa, the blog author's, own experiences in similar circumstances. It's just horrible to see the medical staff and the others in the waiting room sitting around doing nothing while this women evidently is suffering horribly. I'm glad to say the one time I was in a similar...
Today's Blog Music (Free subscription) | yesterday
in post SP20 Band of the Day: The Vaselines + ticket giveaway! from KEXP Blog .
Next Nature (Free subscription) | yesterday
These ships were abandoned over twenty years ago. Their owners left them to die after the Chernobyl disaster due to their high levels of radiation. One of the great ironies of the this particular tragedy is that many animals and trees are now doing considerably better in the Chernobyl region, than when the humans [...]
Reuters (Free subscription) | yesterday
VALLETTA (Reuters) - The cost of living is rising in Malta, but the cost of dying may be about to drop.
Fat Doctor (Free subscription) | yesterday
I seriously think I should have gone into palliative medicine. End of life issues and symptom management are my favorite things at work. Learning how people face the end is fascinating and, to be honest, sometimes frustrating. I kind of wish I could do it full time. On my current panel, I have two patients who are dying. Both have been married for over 55 years. Both are seriously demented at baseline....
scans_daily: Bringing the crack sin (Free subscription) | yesterday
ShoutWire.com (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
A 49-year-old woman collapsed and died on the floor of a waiting room at a Brooklyn psychiatric hospital and lay there for more than an hour as employees ignored her, according to the New York Civil Liberties Union, which on Tuesday released surveillance camera video of the incident
Hulver's site (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
"The baffling murder of Stephen Vincent Benét."
Posse on Broadway (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
Onyx mascot Fredro Starr makes an ass of himself again
1938 Media (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
I like friendfeed better. BTW I’m testing a new echo effect I learned here.
