I’m only about a year behind the times on this, but, when I was in my health club last week, some TVs were showing the video for the Silversun Pickups’ “Substitution” song. It’s the video where the group is playing and, on the floor in front of them are eight short-skirted, low-cut, high-heel-wearing women playing [...]
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Peter Dreier of The Nation has put together a slide show of the “Fifty Most Influential Progressives of the Twentieth Century.” It’s interesting reading, especially for a liberal/progressive like me. According to Dreier, the list (which is in chronological sequence “in terms of their early important contributions”), the 50 are people: who helped change America [...]
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Here’s a quick hit from the tech world (courtesy of my father, expert lurker of Mac blogs): Intel CEO Paul Otellini recently took a swipe at Steve Jobs for what he thinks is a “step back” in the forthcoming Apple TV design. Citing Apple TV’s lack of full internet features, Otellini said that the product [...]
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Many people have been following the U.S. Open tennis tournament in New York. Kim Clijsters won the women’s single title and Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic are playing for the men’s title today. But there was another singles title awarded yesterday. It was to Esther Vergeer of the Netherlands, who won her fifth U.S Open [...]
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U.S. District Court Judge Virginia A. Phillips’ ruling on Thursday that “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” is unconstitutional was a great victory. It held that the policy violated the constitutional rights of the military’s gays and lesbians and was detrimental to the military’s readiness. You would think that the ruling would please President Obama and Defense [...]
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