“Where are all the female bloggers?” HERE, in my weekly “top ten”. Why “femmes fatales”? Because these are killer posts, selected for great ideas and great writing, general interest and variety. * Pinko Feminist Hellcat suggests that while the religious Right complained about Bill Clinton’s narrow definition of “sexual intercourse”, …
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Read More »Consumer Electronics Association Declares “Innovation Independence”
CEA rocks rectum declaring a series of principles to ensure that fair use, home recording rights and innovation are protected in legislative, judicial and regulatory debates regarding the “protection” of intellectual property. Damn straight. CEA unveiled the Declaration during its conference entitled “IP & Creativity: Redefining the Issue,” held March …
Read More »Friday femme fatales
In answer to that endlessly circulating question “where are all the female bloggers?”, I’ve decided to make a weekly collection that answers: HERE! Why “femme fatales”? Because these are killer posts. This week’s is drawn from my own blogroll, but in the next week if you read, or write, a …
Read More »More on Maureen Dowd
Shame on me. For all my complaints about Maureen Dowd, I somehow failed to notice that she was the only regular female columnist at The New York Times. For that, shame on the Times. In her column today Dowd points out that the Washington Post also has only one female …
Read More »Dan Rather Closes Gate
Crusty old Dan Rather checked out as CBS news anchorman last night after 24 years, his reckless crusade against the sitting president his downfall. Here is his on-air benediction: We have shared a lot in the 24 years we’ve been meeting here each evening. And before I say good night, …
Read More »Jackson Trial: A Small Industry
We mentioned last week that enterprising locals are making bucks on the Michael Jackson trial renting out parking spaces and vantage points, and restaurants and stores are doing record business as well. Specialists are also raking in the dough. Sketch artist Bill Robles and two colleagues are providing the only …
Read More »Jackson Trial: Punch, Counterpunch, Potty Break
Yesterday the 14 year-old younger brother of Michael Jackson’s accuser took the stand and made some shocking accusations: “I saw directly onto the bed,” the boy testified about the first of the two 2003 incidents. “I saw my brother was outside the covers. I saw Michael’s left hand in my …
Read More »The joy of the carnival
Blogs are wonderful, but there are millions of them, and how do you find like-minded souls among the multitudes? Like many bloggers, I suspect, my initial discoveries were random, but I soon learnt to follow others’ blogrolls. But after a while that becomes horribly circular. One way to break out …
Read More »MJ Trial: Drinking Wine Spodyody, Laughter and Forgetting, Eating MJ
The Michael Jackson trial continued yesterday with testimony from the 18 year-old sister of the alleged victim of sexual abuse, who said she and her two brothers were given alcohol by MJ in the wine cellar of his Neverland Valley Ranch, the entrance to which was hidden behind a jukebox …
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