As a proud Saturn owner (despite the fact that my husband keeps threatening to push the wheezing car into the Potomac), I found this commercial running during the NCAA Tournament endearingly sad. Hey, everybody–we’re not dead yet! We’re still around! Don’t forget about us!
What I didn’t realize, until I read Joseph Szczesny’s …
Spring is here and that means the sex education wars are about to flare up once again when Congress decides whether to eliminate–or let expire–about $170M in annual funding for abstinence-only programs. For our current print issue, I took a look at what kinds of sex education programs actually work.
I also found that the fights over …
Joe is absolutely right. (And JNS hinted at this last week as well when she reported that congressional switchboards aren’t exactly lighting up with angry constituents demanding the heads of AIG execs.) I was in Michigan last week, where nearly every conversation veers into the economy and jobs and whose kids have moved back in with them …
I was sufficiently alarmed after reading the following email from the White House to click on the attached memo immediately. Whereupon I learned that Marian the Librarian is not suddenly part of an at-risk protected class. And, per usual, I need to slow down when I read.
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press
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It’s not news that people occasionally get married for reasons other than love. But this still has to be a little unusual.
The story is that Mukhtar Mai, the Pakistani woman who was gang-raped a few years ago by order of her village council, has gotten married. After her attack, Mukhtar refused to remain silent, successfully …
Well, Michael, either Chuck Grassley missed the heads-up on AIG or he’s been sharpening his outrage since January:
“But I would suggest the first thing that would make me feel a little bit better toward [AIG executives] is if they’d follow the Japanese example and come before the American people and take that deep bow and say, I’m
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Are you sitting down? Because I have some shocking news. I know this comes out of the blue, so steel yourself:
Bristol and Levi are not getting married.
I know! I was sure those two crazy kids were going to beat the odds and make it work. But alas, Levi Johnston tells the Associated Press that he and Bristol Palin have called off …
It’s been a busy day at the White House. In addition to signing the omnibus bill and giving into the earmark-obsessives (more on that later), Obama announced several new nominations and established a new White House office. Among the nominees is Seattle Police Chief Gil Kerlikowske, who will head up the Office of National Drug Control …
And not just because he still has that microphone. Democracy Corps–the same folks who determined last fall that Rush would make such an excellent political villain–have a new poll out demonstrating that Rush is just as polarizing as you would think. His favorability split is 26/53, which means you can bet we’ll continue see more …
Rainn Wilson (a.k.a The Office’s Dwight Schrute) has just launched the website SoulPancake.com, which is part-blog, part-online community to discuss philosophy and spirituality. Says Wilson in an introductory video: “I am sick of spirituality being airy-fairy, hippy-dippy, and precious. I want to de-lameify talking about God and …
Elsewhere on Time.com today, Douglas McIntyre has assembled a list of the 10 major newspapers most like to fold or go digital. Many are publications struggling in a two-paper (or more) town, like the Philadelphia Daily News and the Detroit News. The Detroit Free Press is already gearing up to stop home delivery Mondays, Tuesdays, …
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Earlier this week, I wondered if Sam Brownback’s public support of Kathleen Sebelius’ nomination to be HHS Secretary would quiet some of her anti-abortion critics. Apparently not, especially among the more fringe-y elements. It did, however, manage to re-focus some of their anger at Brownback himself. In the latest slap at Brownback, the …
