Anderson Cooper’s Letter to Andrew Sullivan: Andrew, as you know, the issue you raise is one that I’ve thought about for years. Even though my job puts me in the public eye, I have tried to maintain some level of privacy in my life. Part of that has been for purely personal reasons. I th[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Media’
April 14th, 2012 - 7:36 am § in Misc.
Meet the editor of e!Science News
e!science is one of the major sources of material for the AVE. I think you deserve to learn about the editor of e!Science. There is no human editor behind e! Science News; it is powered by the e! news engine, a fully automated artificial intelligence. Its sole purpose is to ensure that you have ac[...]
April 8th, 2012 - 10:37 am § in America
Mike Wallace Passes at 93
From the Associated Press obituary: Mike Wallace didn’t interview people. He interrogated them. He cross-examined them. Sometimes he eviscerated them.His reputation was so fearsome that it was often said that the scariest words in the English language were “Mike Wallace is here to see yo[...]
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: EASTER: Seeing Art in Death
Pornography is only part of the story of these two pictures. Blake Gopnik To my Christian-trained eyes, there’s huge pathos in these images, regardless of the monster they show. Since the Middle Ages at least, Western image-making has had the sight of greatness, cast down and bloodied, right at it[...]
March 1st, 2012 - 1:35 pm § in Misc.
New Line of PCs Undercuts EVERONE
Read more about the third A … Amazon, Apple, and Anus African entrepreneurs, taking a page form the early days of Dell Computers, low ball the market for laptops. Amazon and Apple are about to get a kick in their arses. I wonder if these computers will be manufacured in North Korea under Kim[...]
November 20th, 2011 - 10:54 pm § in America
Man Who Lied About WMD “Believe me, there was no other way to bring about freedom to Iraq. “
The defector who convinced the White House that Iraq had a secret biological weapons programme has admitted for the first time that he lied about his story, then watched in shock as it was used to justify the war. Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi, codenamed Curveball by German and American intelligence o[...]
OccuPy Wall Street shows bigotry to creatures that have more than six legs.
Always the bad guy PZ Meyers comment on the demonization of the eight legged. Will this never stop?[...]
ROMNEYISMS: Who needs to wait for the debates? Send Mitt to the emergency room!
There he goes again! According to Mitt’s statements on 60 minutes, if we drop Obama care, poor people can always get what they need in the emergency room! Who does Mitt think pays for ER care? A major reason for the Affordable Health Care Act was to stop the practice of taxing all other form[...]