“Who cares?” a follower on Twitter asked today, when the subject of the death of Ed McMahon came up. I guess I don’t have a great answer for it, although I do think there’s value in remembering the icons of mass media when it was really mass media. Like McMahon, the Milton Berles and Dinah Read more →
People rise to the occasion in DC, what happens to your private data when a firm that specializes it goes belly up, the lowdown on Moussavi, your iPhone is an accident waiting to happen, and the humanity of pet names.
Clearly, there’s a difference between St. Paul and Tehran in the level of violence between authorities and lawful demonstrators. But on the fundamental question of whether protesters — if peaceful — should be allowed to take to the streets against a government, is there a difference?
Who is more responsible for emitting greenhouse gases. It depends on how you want to measure it.
What’s the first sign that America’s love affair with its heroes has gone too far? When they do cameos in music videos.
The National Quality Minority Forum today unveiled its National HIV/AIDS atlas, showing county-level prevalence data of the illness throughout the United States. The licensing agreement is pretty restrictive — you need to register and, technically, you’re barred from linking to the site — which would seem to defeat the purpose of providing more information. It’s Read more →
Inside the Church of Scientology, when the law is based on a lie, John Hodgman wows ’em in Washington, the end of the Lowry Avenue Bridge, and the tombstones tell the tale.
What happened on Saturday, an Iran scholar says, goes beyond a dispute between factions.
Bob Collins