Remember the wind-powered rotating skyscrapers of Dubai? Well, the building boom in the Emirates is over, thanks to the financial crisis. Most of the huge and expensive construction projects have been cancelled or are on hold. Not only that, foreign laborers are being laid off at an astounding rate ...

for some bizare reason it has become acceptable for our country to continue allowing children from poorer divorced american families to be denied equal access to both parents. not all americans can afford the high cost of legal fees for their divorces,and if one parent does not have a lawyer and the...

  X_Science: Cinema tra Scienza e Fantascienza Quarta edizione Genova, 25-26-27-28 Marzo 2009   + La Notte della fantascienza Cinema Nickelodeon ingresso libero     Dal 25 marzo fino alla mattina del 29 Marzo Genova sarà la capitale di Scienza e Fantascienza con il festiva...

The news feed keeps getting skinnier and skinnier. We still don’t have any email, so most tips aren’t getting through. I’m kind of enjoying the hiatus, but I know what I’ll be facing when it’s over. It’s like going on vacation, only without the suntan to show for it… By the way, don’...

Check out the story about Islamic proselytizing and Muslim conversions within the prison system of Washington State. The article doesn’t mention the Muslims of America (nor Jamaat ul-Fuqra, naturally), but I would be very surprised if none of the imams doing the missionary work were from MOA. Than...

The two most interesting news stories tonight come from China. First, the Chinese export industry has collapsed, throwing at least 20 million more people out of work. 20 million. Even in China, that’s a lot of people. The second story: China demands that the USA “guarantee� that the value of a...

The Financial Times — not known as a wild-eyed raving loonie rag — has a sobering analysis of the financial crisis, and what lies ahead, both in the USA and abroad. Thanks to C. Cantoni, Fausta, GL-T, Insubria, JD, LL, Tuan Jim, VH, and all the other tipsters who sent these in. Headlines and art...

From the Journals of Lord Byron January 31, 1821 For several days I have not written any thing except a few answers to letters. In momentary expectation of an explosion of some kind, it is not easy to settle down to the desk for the higher kinds of composition. I could do it, to be sure, for, last s...

Prosegue Sanremofestival.59 , la competizione online tra artisti Giovani voluta per la prossima edizione del Festival di Sanremo dal direttore artistico e conduttore Paolo Bonolis e dal direttore artistico musicale Gianmarco Mazzi. I 50 video che hanno ottenuto più voti e accedono alla second...

Once again, there are so many stories that I can’t include headline links for all articles. Scroll down from an article to see similar ones. Also, notice all the adulatory rhetoric about Obama. He’s being set up for a catastrophic fall, because nobody could possibly satisfy all those expectation...