A panel of 44 men and women armed with dials numbered from 0 (most negative) to 100 (most positive) assembled by CBS to watch the veep debate at its TV City research facility in Las Vegas yielded an unexpected finding: Biden did better than Palin when he talked about the Iraq war, but the tables [...]

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It is with great sadness that I write this review. Plan 9′s front man Aaron Fuller,  died late on Monday night in San Francisco from a motorcycle accident. Apparently while traveling home on his motorbike  Fuller went off the side of an overpass and died on impact. The accident is still under investigation by the [...]

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Michael is going over all the paperwork for Lowell’s case when he tells Lauren he has found one witness and he is waiting on the call from him. He says he hopes Lowell keeps his big mouth shut before that but Lauren says it is too late for that. She hands him a magazine where [...]

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A cleanup to remove asbestos containing plaster from a veteran’s home in Illinois has recently taken place. The asbestos was discovered when work was taking place to fit a new call light system in August at the Illinois Veterans Home at Manteno. Asbestos was found in the plaster at the thirty eight bed unit. Asbestos [...]

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Obama Campaign’s Curious Behavior Excites NO Curiosity in the Mainstream Media Barack Obama’s Birth Certificate: Still Missing in Action in Federal Court Birth Certificate Only One Piece to Puzzle DBKP Talks to Phillip J. Berg about the Obama Campaign Making a Federal Case out of a Federal Case “I said I need backup! NOW! I’ve [...]

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In an article about how the current financial crisis would affect the two presidential candidates promises, the NY Times demonstrates the real problem without even noticing it. While first commenting, as I did, that neither candidate could get specific on what promised programs they would not implement or delay as a result of circumstances, the [...]

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Desperately Seeking Paul McCartney is a curious little mockimentary by film maker and reality TV maven Marc Cushman. Ruth back in 1967 was a teenage reporter for NBC and one of her earliest interviews was with the then very young Paul McCartney. During the interview Paul playfully asks Ruth to marry him. This movie fast [...]

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested and held in juvenile detention overnight because a female classmate sent him (and other boys) a naked picture of herself. The best line of the story–”So far only the 13-year-old boy has been arrested.” Beyond the prudery and overreaction, the most outrageous thing about the story is that this boy [...]

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Democratic candidate Barack Obama was a member of the socialist New Party during the 1990s, according to new evidence unearthed by web bloggers, receiving the party’s endorsement for his state Senate run in 1996. Reports earlier this summer that Obama was associated with the New Party were vigorously denied by the Obama campaign and the [...]

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That debate at Belmont University in Nashville, TN, was no town hall meeting. It was highly ritualized Kabuki Theater. To begin with, instead of just letting the first 5,000 people to show up into the Curb Event Center and taking questions from the audience at random, The Gallup Organization hand-picked 80 uncommitted voters from the Nashville [...]

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The title is prefaced with A Girlfriends Handbook, and ends with 100 Reasons Why You Should Take Him Back. I was scared when I saw the title. My wife loves to accuse me of things I have not done, and this book seemed to be playing right into her hand. Of course, as soon as [...]

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One does of course understand that no reporters are allowed into Zimbabwe, making actual reporting difficult. But that doesn’t excuse the AP from their admiring reporting on Mugabe. Analysis: Zimbabwe’s Mugabe confident on Cabinet Yup. Not stubbornly refusing to cooperate with the agreement: he is confident! It’s a waiting game, and no one is better [...]

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The recent report that USPTO has sent a notice to US legal firms that they need to obtain “Export License” before outsourcing Patent drafting work to India has raised doubts whether this could be a deathknell for the fledgling LPO industry in India. The industry which is estimated to be worth around US $640 million  [...]

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