State journalism? Bill Moyers talking on journalism: This is a long speech he gave last week, but well worth reading.

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/journalism_under_fire.php

http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/db?name=Swift-Tuttle

Did I ever tell you there is a pizza place on a country road south of town that has the motto posted outside of it?

SO GOOD, YOU'LL COME.

It makes me laugh every time.

Saccharine. They deserve it.

http://www.alternativeaddiction.com/unknownbands/battlearchive/battle061504.asp

Saw the transit of Venus across the sun yesterday morning. Woke before dawn (around 4:45) and headed over to the top of this parking garage near the university. The Astronomy Department had about 5 telescopes as well as the biggest binoculars I've ever seen, all rigged out with special filters so as not to blind anyone. There were about 250 people ( Read more... )

"... with each passing year it becomes harder not to wonder whether I should be listening to something that is still thought of as more age appropriate - jazz, folk, classical, opera, funeral marches, the usual suspects."http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/21/opinion/

"Guards used strobe lights, dogs and loud music - particularly from US rapper Eminem - to extract information"

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3713111.stm

"In keeping with the tone of informality that the White House sought to impose, Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney sat near the fireplace in the Oval Office and commission members gathered around them."

Did the commission sit on the floor and drink hot cocoa, too?http://

Rice seemed really nervous before the 9-11 commission. It made me wonder what she was hiding. All I have to say is that I'm glad they have changed the camera angle on these things since the Iran-Contra hearings in the 80s. I much prefer the dead-on, newscaster angle they are using now to the hero-angle (i.e., shooting from below) they used to film ( Read more... )

I bought an old album the other day--All Things Must Pass, by George Harrison. It's his first solo album after the Beatles, and it looks like he benefited from John and Paul keeping him down all those years, as the album is not only massive (2 CDs--originally a triple LP) but consistently good. There are several songs on there that get inside of ( Read more... )