DrumBeat: October 23, 2008

The Peak Oil Crisis: In the Eye of the Storm So where does all this leave the world's oil supply - the life blood of our civilization? ... -- can do much about it. Farmers, our best spokesmen The one message that needs to be driven home ... has done in lawfully eliminating modern livestock farms and implied that we should follow suit [more...]

Date: 2008-10-23 13:14:59

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In Depth: McCain's environmental record (By Ben Whitford)

In January 2006, Brad Miller, a Democratic congressman from North Carolina, joined Sen. John McCain on a legislative fact-finding delegation to the South Pole. Miller recalls the lawmakers, still bundled in their emergency cold-weather gear, huddling into a tiny conference room a stone’s throw from the pole itself, [more...]

Date: 2008-10-22 16:15:52

Clinton places focus on women during confirmation

Most of the news out of Iowa this morning has spotlighted Gov. Chet Culver's State of the State address. While Culver's thoughts are important to Iowans, there was other news of importance to women today as Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton sat before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to discuss her nomination for Secretary of State. [ [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 19:20:08

It’s January and you made a new years resolution to eat healthy.  Well, bravo for you.  No, really, I mean that ... t be eating it.  This applies to twinkies, it applies to most modern cereals, it applies to chicken ... think they have a good eating plan until they look at their snacks.  Those handfuls of peanuts [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 17:01:58

The Apology

How to Turn Over a New Inaugural Leaf By Tom Engelhardt We consider ours a singular age of individual psychology and self-awareness. Isn't it strange then that our recent presidents have had nothing either modest or insightful to say about themselves in their first inaugural addresses, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 17:58:31

Retrofitting suburbia for the 21st century (part 2: Columbia and Reston)

As I wrote yesterday, environmental and economic forces are requiring that suburbs become more walkable, more transit-accessible, ... the new plan for Tysons Corner, Virginia, America's quintessential "edge city." Today we look at a plan to bring a major update to Columbia, Maryland, and a substantially successful similar makeover [more...]

Date: 2008-10-08 16:18:03

When Papa travels, Mommy unravels

When Papa travels, Mommy unravels Posted by Andrea Frazer in marriage, Welcome to Momformation, BabyCenter Community, Family Life, ... out until 10 PM at a campfire with the kids - something Rex would argue is not the greatest plan ... the sound of Modern Marvels in the next room while I cram in my latest column. And while I fancy myself Ms [more...]

Date: 2008-08-10 20:33:37

Beyond Vietnam

Just read it. (Or listen.) Beyond Vietnam -- A Time to Break Silence, Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered 4 April 1967, at a meeting of Clergy and Laity Concerned About Vietnam at Riverside Church in New York City You can also click here to listen to Dr. King delivering the speech and download an MP3 file to replay any time [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 21:58:58

Thinking out loud about BloodhoundBlog Unchained in Phoenix

Here’s where we start, and we knew this last May in Phoenix, but we hadn’t yet figured out how to pull it off: ... repeated conquests of your own self-imposed mental limitations. Translation: We plan to wear ... Unchained in Phoenix will be a hard-charging boot camp for journeymen and masters at modern real [more...]

Date: 2008-11-11 03:30:00

WGA Preview

Before the DGA announces on Thursday morning, the Writers Guild will announce their nominees for the year’s best scripts.  As you can see from the charts (after the jump), there are usually a few missing titles that fail to make the jump from WGA to Oscar. “So, what movies are you going to vote for?” “I don’t know; I haven’t seen anything [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 04:47:04

6 Must-Have Characteristics to Look for When Buying a Home

J.D. is on vacation. This is a guest post from G.E. Miller, author of the 20somethingfinance.com blog for young professionals. With home prices down, foreclosures up, there’s an influx of great homes on the market with less ... for those willing to do some homework, and who meet the prerequisites of home ownership. Although it may [more...]

Date: 2008-12-17 13:00:30

November 20, 2008

rites of passages for boys where they became men over their fresh kill. These days, that rarely happens in a suburban cul-de-sac, but you do have the opportunity to grant your son responsibility in front of a family gathering. When you decide the time is right for your son to carve the turkey – and that may come because of age, [more...]

Date: 2008-11-21 05:37:45

NRL 2008 ~ Round 25 Tips

Roosters vs Rabbitohs The seasons first controversy erupted from it’s very first game this year with the now infamous “prowler tackle” by Riley ... a season, hence NRL career given his retirement plan, ending injury last weekend. Whoever plays ... as it has been retired for the rest of the season out of respect for one of the greatest players of the m [more...]

Date: 2008-08-29 07:40:21

Polyamory

“Perhaps our greatest acts of violence are reserved not for those experiences that are most foreign to us but for the ones that are closest to the truth about ourselves.” - Jonathan Mooney In this article I’ll candidly share my thoughts about polyamory, monogamy, marriage, and about intimate relationships in general [more...]

Date: 2009-01-03 05:45:18

Revolutionary Road - Trapped In Suburbia

Directed by Sam Menedes (American Beauty), Revolutionary Road is adapted from a novel by Richard Yates. ( ... of the Eisenhower era; therefore, transplanting the story to the modern day would be an exercise ... s a soulless job, but it affords them their life in suburbia. April is a stay-at-home mom slowly being [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 16:30:00

Cooking up a plan: Food policy for the president-to-be

Although Slow Food Nation, with its red-carpet promenade of food-system luminaries, has not yet faded from memory, I’m apparently a bit of a masochist when it comes to listening to people wax visionary about the future of the food system. Instead of staying in and canning the latest massive harvest of tomatoes, [more...]

Date: 2008-10-02 07:21:18

Sunday Real Estate Round-Up, 07/27/08

Filed under: Estates, Celebrity Shopping From the LA Times Hot Property: --Angela Bassett and Courtney Vance sold their Hancock Park home for $3.8 million to George and Laura Carroll, neighbors who bought the home with the intention of moving ... and they plan to install a gate so no one needs to walk around the block. Laura's mom and dad, Joe [more...]

Date: 2008-07-27 09:03:00

Date: 2009-01-18 08:36:00

Great Minds and the 2008 Election

Saturday I wrote a letter to Sen. John McCain pleading with him to let Gov. Sarah Palin be who she is and go on the offensive against Sen ... Of Destiny Between Infidelity And Islam".  The United States is also in a war at home, between ... to be the founder of modern community organizing in America.  Sen. Hillary Clinton and Sen. Barack Obama are both [more...]

Date: 2008-10-06 19:06:06

On The Precipice

Yet more commentary on the economics and politics of the financial crisis ... . Paulson insists that he wants a “clean” plan. “Clean,” in this context, means a taxpayer-financed bailout ... approach with additional subsidies for distressed home-buyers. Yuval Levin: Even if Hank Paulson [more...]

Date: 2008-09-22 18:22:00

Ignoring the Strategic Lessons of History

The theatre of war may be larger or smaller, its difficulties more or less pronounced, the contending armies more or less great, ... hundred years ago, before quoted, contained a correct strategic plan, which is as applicable ... ), there are a number of questions to be decided, covering the whole plan of operations throughout the theatre [more...]

Date: 2008-09-16 01:00:00

Debunking the “Human Shield” Myth

Jump to Commentsby Chris FloydVeteran Israeli activist Uri Avnery takes on the morally hideous “human shield” myth being propagated with ever-increasing frenzy by the apologists for Israel’s murderous assault on Gaza. He pulls no punches in setting this specious argument in its rightful historical context [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 19:25:53

12 Most Popular Lifehack Technology Articles of 2008

At the end of each year, we like to round up some of the most popular articles from each section of the site over the last twelve months ... drive is one of the few mechanical devices used in modern computing, and as such, it’s destined to die eventually.” - Link 4. Hard Drive Zen with the Humble Folder “The hard drive; you bring one home [more...]

Date: 2008-12-31 13:30:42

Weekend Open House Report

The weekend open house slog is nigh, and we're here to help, as always. Agents, have a listing of your very own? Hustle! 345435_5_0.jpg ... : "Located on a premier tree-lined block in Pacific Heights, this spectacular modern Victorian hm ... including hdwd flrs, soaring clngs, skylights!" Open House: Sunday 10 August, 2-4 345363_4_0.jpg [more...]

Date: 2008-08-09 15:30:04

Welcome to History

It's helpful to think of how to address the current financial crisis (and I don't use that word casually) in terms of the end-state we want to achieve, and the transition plan to get there. The problem ... known, in retrospect, that we had a classic speculative bubble in home prices. As is typical [more...]

Date: 2008-09-19 21:39:38

U.K. criminalizes johns

Starting next month, England and Wales will outlaw kerb crawling, soliciting prostitutes in public and " ... if it's run by a pimp or if the workers are trafficked. On Sunday, Home Secretary Jacqui Smith announced the plan, which is largely aimed at curbing sex trafficking and follows a six-month review [more...]

Date: 2008-09-23 20:31:15

First, You Get Mad

Wow. It's kind of unbelievable, really. You take something away from people, and they get angry. Take away hard won rights, and equal protection for those they love, and people get really angry. In the week since, California has seen an outpouring of demonstrations ranging from quiet vigils to noisy street protests against Proposition 8, [more...]

Date: 2008-11-14 19:52:07

10 of the World’s Most Dramatic Financial Crises, and Their Lessons

Financial crises are consistent in one way, and one way only: They’re far more sexy when your neighbors are wearing them. When you suffer your own, runaway inflation becomes infuriating rather than exotic, and bogus bank scams go from intriguing to fist-clenching. It’s all fine and well until it hits you squarely across the jaw [more...]

Date: 2008-09-25 00:06:51

Vintage Remedies

Have you ever seen those commercials on TV for all these medications on the market today and their WARNINGS? ... that I have called "The Handbook of Vintage Remedies: The Modern Family's Guide to Herbal Medicine" by Jessie ... say your child comes home with a Poison Ivy. Before you reach for the medicine cabinet you should [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 18:34:00

2008 IN REVIEW: The Year in Nonfiction Films

Putting together a top ten list of favorite nonfiction films from 2008 has been one of my biggest procrastinations of all time here on the blog.  I actually started working on notes for it in early December, figured I wrap the whole thing up before Christmas and have it ready for the first few days of 2009.  Not so much [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 12:08:39

My Two Top 2008 Technologies

For a year-end post I’d rather not try to recap the year in technology, or in anything else ... . They assume that when I say "wireless" I mean "wifi," and that the Kindle piggybacks off my home network ... -in permanent and free mobile phone plan that its users never have to give any thought to -- they just pull [more...]

Date: 2008-12-30 19:38:00

10 Ways to Brand Your Blog or Website Efficiently

On the latest State of the Blogosphere report, Technorati claimed that they are tracking over 133 million blogs. That is a freaking lot of them. If we take into consideration standard websites as well, this number will be even bigger. The result? Hundreds, if not thousands of blogs and websites on virtually every single niche on the web. [ [more...]

Date: 2008-10-08 12:55:14

Inspiration: Fall's Compostable Decor

Now that the temperatures are finally starting to drop, we're feeling lots of inspiration for fall decor. This weekend, we plan on bringing a little bit of the outside in. For starters, we're thinking ... Back home, the ushering in of fall always meant hues of orange and brown, most of which come directly [more...]

Date: 2008-10-10 16:15:00

SPOTLIGHT: Books of January 2009

Welcome to the January 2009 edition of Fantasy Book Critic’s monthly SPOTLIGHT which covers fantasy, science fiction, horror, thrillers, YA, and more. Happy Holidays everyone! Notable titles this first month of the new year include new releases from Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman, Lois McMaster Bujold, Charlie Huston, Bernard Cornwell, R [more...]

Date: 2009-01-01 08:01:00

Solis for Labor: SEIU Gets Pay Off, Blago Under Arrest

SEIU Official (but not apparently that SEIU Official) Andy Stern is "thrilled" at the appointment of Cong. Hilda Solis of LA for Sec'y of Labor ... at GangBox, a rank and file website run by a construction worker, SEIU was unable or unwilling to stop ... members. This was part of the battle to defeat construction workers, too. Instead they began to orient [more...]

Date: 2008-12-18 22:01:00

Women In Business: Interview With Sadie Hartmann

Sadie Hartmann is the remarkable woman who created the web's most up and coming Indie shopping experience, Lollishops ... with like minded artisans. As our network grew, so did my interest in trying to find a new home for my art ... "Cottage Style". I recently wrote a post on the official LolliShops blog defining Cottage Style.C [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 15:25:00

Opportunity "Jacked"

I admit it, the past week has left me speechless. As I sat and read the news about how the last of the investment banks shuffled off into extinction (kinda; they're just becoming regular old banks now), it did feel like I was sitting in front of my television again watching the Berlin Wall come down [more...]

Date: 2008-09-23 20:12:43

Toledo Blade Pleads for Obama to Institute Communism?

The Toledo Blade's lead editorial on Sunday, October 12, is a seeming plea to institute in America a chief communist principle: the "right" to a job ... a "forward-looking president" and extols the unAmerican specifics of his plan as a solution for today's ... his Social Security plan -- an idea originally invented in socialist Germany in 1881 -- was [more...]

Date: 2008-10-13 04:10:24

Mantri Magnolia Bangalore

Mantri Developer Underlying this winning Speed and Quality managed systems was the evolving of his PQRST philosophy ( ... while being a stones throw away from modern day luxuries and amenities – a delightful blend, hard to miss. Now you could watch the stunning city skyline from the comforts of your home and still [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 10:58:14

Reflections on the Upcoming Obama Presidency

Well, it has happened, every conservative and traditionalist’s worst nightmare: President Barack Obama, ... Obama must be in God’s plan somehow. Just as we must not put our trust in princes, we must also ... and kleptocrats. Had McCain run as an “isolationist” and a modern day Teddy Roosevelt taking on big business [more...]

Date: 2008-11-05 11:20:22

The Angst of Supporting Israel

Cross-posted by Maggie at Maggie’s Notebook Israelis play checkers in a bomb shelter in the southern city of Ashkelon December 31, 2008. Hamas rockets hit the major Israeli city of Beersheba on Wednesday and Israel described as unrealistic a French proposal for a 48-hour truce that would allow more humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip [more...]

Date: 2009-01-03 01:25:17

The Bush Administration’s Secret Biowarfare Agenda

Dandelion Salad by Stephen Lendman Global Research, July 28, 2008 When it comes to observing US and international laws, treaties and norms, the Bush administration is a serial offender. Since 2001, it’s: – spurned efforts for nuclear disarmament to advance its weapons program and retain current stockpiles; [more...]

Date: 2008-07-28 12:33:00

Fr. Ernesto Obregon: An Orthodox View of the Issues In Sola Fide

UPDATE: A great way to learn more about Orthodoxy is the amazing selection of podcasts at Ancient Faith Radio. There are 4 pages of podcasts! I have always enjoyed Fr. Reardon. Perhaps some commenters can share their favorite. One of the frequent commenters here at Internet Monk recently is Father Ernesto Obregon, an Orthodox priest. Fr [more...]

Date: 2008-11-15 21:02:50

Women Writing in India: A Conversation with Urvashi Butalia and Anita Roy

So free am I, so gloriously free Free from three petty things: From mortar, from pestle, and from my twisted lord Freed from rebirth and death I am And all that has held me down Is hurled away. These words were written by a woman called Mutta who lived 2600 years ago, in Northern India. They appear in a book that changed my life [more...]

Date: 2008-10-09 02:48:38

ABC's Diane Sawyer Prompts Clinton to Call McCain Old

"Good Morning America's" train tour across the country continued on Tuesday with Diane Sawyer interviewing Hillary Clinton and encouraging the senator to agree that John McCain is too old to be president. She also jokingly invited the former first lady aboard, stating that the program could "go out and buy you some pajamas [more...]

Date: 2008-09-16 17:19:23

DwellStudio’s American Thanksgiving

DwellStudio was founded by Christiane Lemieux in 1999 in an effort to bring modern textile design to the world of home ... political issues of colonization; these people left their homes in search of a better life. Isn’t that what we call the American dream? And this year, of all years, there’s a renewed optimism in the air [more...]

Date: 2008-11-13 04:00:41

Big Reads of 2008

I'm blessed with ample reading opportunities on my commute and in the bathtub, and like Diane I also like to read before I go to sleep. So it's quite common for me to have a book on the metro and a book (or two) at home. You'd think I would have a lot more books to talk about than I actually do. I had to go and look at my account [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 12:23:00

One Hand Free

One Hand Free-Quadraphonic-2008-Thundertrauzer Enterprises"It’s hard not to be captivated by One Hand Free’s funky, grind rock delivery on their latest album Quadraphonic. Biting guitar licks, swirling keyboards, a tight rhythm section and some kickin’ vocals is what the band delivers, and they deliver it as good as any [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 16:46:00

McCain, Reagan and Greatness

Or consider his proposals for energy policy: My fellow Americans, when I’m president, ... on every front. We will produce more energy at home. We will drill new wells offshore, and we’ll drill ... the health of our planet. It’s an ambitious plan, but Americans are ambitious by nature, and we have faced [more...]

Date: 2008-09-10 18:40:03

Dr. Saeb Shaath - Gaza Haunts the EU

While Gaza defies Zionist-imposed death, in simple direct words, the ‘civilised’ world praises the killers. The EU is rewarding the Zionist vultures by upgrading its relationship with the Zionist entity (through a proposal by the European Union Commission and Council for the draft recommendation to conclude a Protocol to the EU-Israel Association [more...]

Date: 2008-12-14 08:00:13

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