Yesterday, the Huffington Post was first with the news that Sen. Ben Nelson is opposing the just-introduced Employee Free Choice Act, on which the American labor movement appears to be banking its entire future.  Specifically, they reported: Ben Nelson will once again be playing a key role in S...

The Speaker of the House, Ken Kowalski, scolded Alberta MLAs (member of the legislative assembly) for using their BlackBerrys too much and not paying attention. “C’mon now,” said Kowalski. “We agreed on certain things, certain decorum, and I even noted prior to this time toda...

The Importance of the Non-Techie or How I Learned to Stop Pulling Out My Hair and Love my Luddite by: Mick Jacobsen My wife mocks Twitter thoroughly, “You don’t even know these people,” she repeats. She thinks Facebook/MySpace is weird. She considers online gaming to be silly.  Sh...

Filed under: Clothing Celeb Fashion Lines These days, no self respecting celebrity can hold her (or his) head up in Hollywood without a clothing, shoe, handbag, or home furnishings line to call their own. But are these stars really qualified to add designer to their resume? StyleList puts them to th...

At the top of the 8 a.m. EST hour of Tuesday's CBS Early Show, co-host Maggie Rodriguez teased an upcoming interview with John McCain’s daughter, Meghan McCain: "And young Mac attack. Senator McCain's daughter, Meghan, takes aim at conservative Ann Coulter and tells us about her post-election...

Kyle Bylin, Associate Editor Introduction Did the MTV, the earliest purveyor and capitalist of popular culture, foretell future of the music video through a ‘mediamorphosis’ that converged the commercial culture that we had all come to know with the participatory interaction that the Internet em...

The guys over at BBTetris emailed me to let you guys know they’ve updated their free Tetris game. Last time we mentioned the free BBTetris game, it was sitting pretty at version 3. Since then, Papped has been working hard on improving the smaller things about the game like battery usage and ot...

Watchmen subverts the superhero mythology, depriving the world of selfless heroes striving to live lives of virtue. Its costumed crime fighters don’t struggle with wielding power responsibly or grapple with their own weaknesses in the hope of overcoming them. The Watchmen include a brutal sociopat...

In January, Republican Lincoln City Councilwoman Robin Eschliman announced she wouldn't be running for re-election to a second term with the following statement: I feel that our City is now in good shape and in good hands - mission accomplished....I was feisty and outspoken, yet I worked tirelessly ...

If you read liberal blogs or receive communications from the Democratic Party, you're probably familiar with radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh publicly hoping for the failure of President Barack Obama and joking about the death of Sen. Ted Kennedy.  With the American people tired of his sicken...