Top Ten Tips For Making It In Hollywood (From Owen Wilson)

Jan 25, 2009 - Top Ten Tips For Making It In Hollywood (From Owen Wilson) 10. Stay positive; develop your craft... ah, who am I kidding? - 7 Comments

Who Killed California?

Oct 15, 2009 - by Troy Senik http://nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/who-killed-california My apologies for having nothing originally in this post.  The text was here but didn't show up. Apparently this article is too long to be printed here, at about 11 pages.  It is nevertheless worth reading, unless, as someone has already done, you have made your  mind up what to believe before reading. - 29 Comments

Tom Brokow's World Implodes

Sep 15, 2009 - http://spectator.org/archives/2009/09/15/media-malpractice-tom-brokaws/   Media Malpractice: Tom Brokow's World Implodes By Jeffrey Lord on 9.15.09 @ 6:08AM Tom Brokaw. With the passing of Walter Cronkite, Mr. Brokaw is considered perhaps the new "dean" of journalism. As such the former NBC News anchor is periodically summoned forth to assess the current world, an occasion that presented itself recently on the venerable NBC Sunday newser Meet the Press. - 15 Comments

Ten Tips I Learned - by Steve Groaner

Jan 18, 2009 - Here's a look back at a few things that I picked up a little ways back. You may want to write these tips down. You'll thank me for it later. - 12 Comments

Bank Accused of Pushing Mortgage Deals on Blacks

Jun 07, 2009 - By MICHAEL POWELL Published: June 6, 2009 As she describes it, Beth Jacobson and her fellow loan officers at Wells Fargo Bank “rode the stagecoach from hell” for a decade, systematically singling out blacks in Baltimore and suburban Maryland for high-interest subprime mortgages. These loans, Baltimore officials have claimed in a federal lawsuit against Wells Fargo, tipped hundreds of homeowners into foreclosure and cost the city tens of millions of dollars in taxes and city services. Wells Fargo, Ms. - 29 Comments

Nation Waits for FDA Overhaul

Apr 27, 2009 - Agency is so understaffed, it inspects less than 1 percent of imported food Tom Costello Published April 26, 2009 by NBC News The Food and Drug Administration may be the only federal agency that both political parties agree is in desperate need of an overhaul. The FDA is so understaffed it inspects less than 1 percent of imported food.President Barack Obama is promising action, though progress has been slow in the first 100 days. His choice to head the FDA - Dr. - 6 Comments

Kite Runner Joins Gay Penguins on Top 10 Books Americans Want Banned

Apr 17, 2009 - Friday, April 17, 2009 by The Guardian/UK by Alison Flood The American Library Association's 'most challenged' books of 2008 include Khaled Hosseini's bestseller alongside Philip Pullman's Dark Materials and And Tango Makes Three Khaled Hosseini has joined the illustrious ranks of Philip Pullman and the authors of a story about gay penguins, after his novel The Kite Runner became one of the books that inspired most complaints in America last year. The bestselling and critically acclaimed title, the story of a 12-year-old Afghan and his betrayal of his best friend, includes the rape of a boy, and provoked challenges in the US over what objectors saw as sexual content and offensive language. Some objections led to the removal of the book from library shelves, while others saw it replaced with bowdlerised versions minus the offending scenes, according to the American Library Association, which compiles an annual list of the most challenged titles in the country. - 31 Comments

Is your car a cop magnet?

Feb 07, 2009 - If $4 gas didn't convince you to trade in that big H2 for a Mini Cooper, perhaps your friendly neighborhood police officer will. It seems that Hummer drivers get more traffic tickets than drivers of any other make of car. The data come from a survey conducted by ISO Quality Planning. - 12 Comments