News Following up on Harry Reid’s Senate health-care bill, Nancy Pelosi and House Democrats unveil their $894 billion health-care bill. Here’s the BBC’s coverage. Jon Stewart takes on the White House vs. Fox News battle. A big change is coming to internet addresses: Internationalized Domain Names. Health care Does Focus on the Family fund abortions? …
Today is Gandhi’s birthday! News The death toll in Indonesia is up over 1,000, with thousands more still trapped. A fossil find in Ethiopia may turn evolution theories on their head. Tony Blair is in line to become Europe’s first president, assuming the Irish say yes. Obama meets McChrystal. Jon Stewart lays into Democrat Senators. …
News A water crisis may hit Asian food sources. Heptathlete Jess Ennis won a first ever gold in the event for Great Britain at the World Championships in Berlin. Dustin Ackley, the Seattle Mariners’ first round draft pick, inks a deal. (Also, Stephen Strasburg, the first overall draft pick, signs with the Washington Nationals.) Human …
I saw The Time Traveler’s Wife this weekend. Having read the book and loved it, and knowing that Rachel McAdams (for whom I have a soft spot) was playing the eponymous heroine, I was definitely looking forward to the movie. Coming in, I’d heard a couple of mixed reviews, saying that there wasn’t all that …
I love Jon Stewart. “Taxed Enough Already.” Protesting high taxes and government’s wasteful spending. Okay, part two first: as Jon Stewart notes, protesting wasteful spending by buying lots and lots and lots of tea bags—and I may be going out on a limb here, but I doubt they’re going to use those afterwards—doesn’t spell anything …