Mortie, Mortie: He's no shorty, Mortie.
No more smoking in Ireland! Now if only Seattle would get on board. Smoking-rights advocates probably aren’t comforted with NYC’s 9 percent increase in restaurant receipts after that city’s smoking ban was put into place.
Clinton outperforms Kerry at a DNC dinner: I hope Kerry can overcome this personality problem — he’s qualified, but needs to work on his public speaking.
Abercrombie and Fitch does it again, this time with the State of West Virginia as the alleged incest capital of the United States, almost a year after the Wong Brothers laundry service controversy.
Oops! Did they think about this when offshoring in the medical system?
The difference between privacy in Europe and “privacy” in the United States.
Confusion over the gay marriage issue has led to one Oregon county banning all marriages until the issue has been resolved.
Big tobacco is set to pull its funding for Truth, the organization formed to effectively highlight the ills of smoking — their problem with the organization is that it’s working too well.
“Every (environmental) win is temporary, every loss is permanent.”
“There is no such thing as an environmental victory – only a stay of execution.”
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After recently finishing Hell’s Angels, this service made sense to me.
Neat Flash interactive piece: Crimson Room
Wow. I had no idea one of my favorite Coen brothers’ movies had been turned into an annual festival.
Fun with coffee marketing.
The IEEE agrees we should place limits on offshore outsourcing. Y’think?
A double helping of news on America’s epidemic with obesity: almost as deadly as tobacco, and no lawsuits allowed against fast food restaurants for making their customers unhealthy. Normally I’m on the side of the plaintiffs, but honestly, if one can’t see that a Whopper or a Big Mac is unhealthy for consumption, doesn’t personal responsibility need to come to the rescue?
SF’s gay wedding streak comes to a halt almost a month after its inception. Conservatives need to drop offense to this issue — it’s a social justice, and not a religious, issue, highlighted by Bill Maher’s quote, “We’re here. We’re queer. Get bored with it.”
“I always gagged on that silver spoon… if I hadn’t been very rich, I might have been a really great man.”
Charles Foster Kane (Orson Welles), “Citizen Kane”
After a weekend in Charlotte visiting relatives, I spent a connecting flight from Georgia to Oakland sitting next to a band I remember from high school. I don’t remember them so much, as we were overshadowed in Metallica, Rush and REO Speedwagon.
Whoops! Coca Cola’s Dasani bottled water is admitted to be nothing more than tap water.
Mary-Ann Greanier, in her tongue-in-cheek article “Biblical Sense: Making Marriage Religious”, argues to make any marriage law in strict accordance with the Bible, so there’s no sense of hypocracy, including:
“A marriage shall be considered valid only if the wife is a virgin. If the wife is found not to be a virgin, “they shall take her to the door of her father’s house and her fellow citizens shall stone her to death” (Deut. 22:13-21). (Here, Governor Romney’s resurrection of the death penalty will come in handy.)”