Being ‘green’ has become a standard. Our lovely planet is being destroyed. As we rape and pillage the natural resources the future becomes more and more uncertain.
The Sundance Channel is half way through their second season of the fine Big Ideas For A Small Planet series. This is a critical look at creating a sustainable […]

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Florida leads the country in the number of breeders and dealers of exotic animals and also leads the nation in the number of killings, maulings and escapes by big cats. It is probably true for other exotic animals as well, but only Big Cat Rescue seems to keep track and their records only reflect exotic […]

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Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is an age-related and irreparable brain disorder that strikes slowly and causes memory loss, behavior and personality changes, and deterioration of mental capacities. These losses are brought about by the collapse of the links between nerve cells in the brain and the ultimate death of most of these cells. The natural course […]

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History and long buried secrets are themes once again and are apparent from the first page. Cory Wilde is back and the small town of Troy, Louisiana seems almost entirely united against him. Of course, if things had gone the way the good people of the small town had expected twenty-nine years ago, he would […]

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Rushmore McKenzie returns in this fourth novel in the series as does crime, murder, violence and politics. In most books they would be just themes but in the hands of David Housewright they take on a life of their own and become characters in their own way.
While heading out to buy a dining room set […]

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Revolution Cleaners of Denver, Co are being featured on this weeks episode of Big Ideas For A Small Planet on the Sundance Channel. The Dry Cleaning industry is not one that I had ever considered as being eco friendly; the use of chemicals cannot possibly be good for the environment.
Revolution’s solution is to use liquid […]

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Phyllis and Nick are at the coffee shop when Nick gets a call from Victoria to meet him and she says it is really important. He tells Phyllis that he has to go but this means she is going to have to go to the meeting with Adam alone. She doesn’t want to but Jack […]

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Liberty waits for Parker outside the school and tells him she wants him to go with her to spend the money they made yesterday. She says it is burning a hole in her pocket. He tells her he can’t miss school but she talks him into skipping with her. They are in Old Town and […]

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Sami finally gets the twins to sleep but now she can’t sleep so she goes downstairs and finds John sitting looking at a chess game. While talking Sami tells him she doesn’t know what she will do if EJ gets sent out of the country? John tells her well she could always go with him. […]

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When menopause hits you will no longer joke about how Krispy Kreme doughnuts go straight to your hips. That’s because they won’t. You’ll be storing fat like a man. Your body will have lost the estrogen supply it needs to direct fat to your hips and buttocks, and will instead store it in your midsection. […]

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Though not necessarily tied directly (at least in any way that I can tell) to Wanderers of the Desert (the previous entry in the Desert Trilogy), The Dove’s Lost Necklace serves as part two of poet/director Nacer Khemir’s highly acclaimed series of desert films, culminating recently with the soon-to-be-released-stateside Bab’Aziz. Where Wanderers of the Desert centered around a […]

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Derby Day was a contrast in emotions. For the owners and fans of Big Brown, it was a thrilling day as he overcame several obstacles to win by a convincing four and a half lengths over the filly Eight Belles. Big Brown was the first horse since 1915 to win with only three prior races, […]

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Using the barren desert as an artistic and aesthetic backdrop for a mythical tale of… well, many things (but we’ll get to that in a bit) poet/filmmaker Nacer Khemir’s first film (and the first in his recently completed Desert Trilogy) involves many characters, many stories, and many long shots of the windswept desert. Released in 1984, […]

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Apparently the filming of the new James Bond movie Quantum of Solace is being plagued with problems. While listening to McIntyre In The Morning on KABC in Los Angeles this morning, I was dismayed when KABC entertainment reporter Debra Mark (pictured) lightly and semi-laughingly mentioned that one of the film crew had been “stabbed in a domestic […]

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TIME magazine is indicating that the recent visit by Pope Benedict XVI has provided the final blow to the liberalist movement in the Catholic Church in the United States. Well, that may be an accurate understatement of the purpose of Benedict’s pastoral visit, but nonetheless it is a welcome observation. Ever since the reforms of […]

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To most film score enthusiasts, or even casual listeners, the name Lalo Schifrin is instantly familiar. Personally, I’ve written about Lalo Schifrin a few times before, interviewing him and reviewing his work, from scores (Rush Hour 3) to his jazz compilations (Lalo Schifrin & Friends). I’ve also seen him perform live in Chicago with the Chicago Jazz Ensemble. But […]

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Imagine having your mouth watering for pizza so you decide to look in the freezer for one only to find the bodies of three infants instead. That would really put a damper on my craving. I don’t think I will ever be able to eat pizza again without thinking of this.
A 44 year old woman […]

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Make the people keep voting until they vote the “correct” way and until Mugabe is declared “President” again.  Except that Mugabe can never even claim to be the legitimate President of Zimbabwe.  From now on even his African neighbours will look askance at this ancient leader of terrorists with a mixture of condescension, amusement, pity […]

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Contenders for the tarnished Royal Dutch Shell crown
By John Donovan
The Financial Times recently published an article revealing Shell’s intention to make “one-off retention payments to three Shell executive directors”, Malcolm Brinded, Peter Voser and Linda Cook; the three candidates vying to succeed Shell CEO Jeroen van der Veer when he retires in June next year.
Financial […]

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I love hospice, because I’m old enough to remember when dying patients ended up in hospitals, or we docs would try to make house calls and try to get neighbors to help give adequate care in their homes. But with hospice, nurses helped me care for my patients by checking them frequently at home, and […]

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 We have been discussing the CNN-IBN poll on Karnataka elections in these columns. The CNN-IBN poll prediction that Congress is expected to get majority in Karnataka has been widely criticized as “motivated”.
Now it is learnt that the punters have their own estimates and these estimates predict around 100 seats for BJP and around  60 […]

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