Younger, Cell Phone-Only Households Listen to Lots More Radio: Nielsen Media Buyer Planner, MD“The findings from the Nielsen pilot underscore the urgent need to include cell-phone-only homes in radio ratings.â€� Clear Channel president and CEO John Hogan made a dig at Arbitron, Nielsen’s co...

Writing from the Philippines, Lode Wostyn situates the Pope’s book within the development of Christology after Vatican II (East Asian Pastoral Review 45.1, 2008). “Ratzinger’s Christology goes beyond the Councils of Nicaea-Chalcedon by simply erasing all the disagreements and ambiguities that ...

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 ...

The out of competition films have been announced for the Tribeca Film Festival and the movie selections feature Tribeca debuts from Sundance alums like  Steven Soderbergh, Raymond De Filleta and  Melissa Leo. Tribeca is starting to appear more like Sundance after Geoffrey Gilmore left the film fes...

Conor McPherson's The Seafarer (Seattle Rep, Weds.-Sun., 7:30, Sat. & Sun. 2 p.m. Tix $15-$59) is host to a whole series of contradictions, not the least of which is that, after spending two hours watching a bunch of middle-aged Irishmen drink themselves nearly to death, we left the theatre thinking...

Hey baby, want a good time? Then call 1-866-IDOLS13. I’ll be waiting (heavy breath...) You would think a behemoth production like American Idol would have plenty of people whose sole purpose is to carefully cross all ‘t’s and dot all ‘i’s. You know, detail people. Making sure songs are cle...

There is, of course news of the other sort. But the bad news is easy to find and usually much more widely discussed. Here instead is a round up of the positive news stories from 20 February to 6 March 2009 from Afghanistan. I focus on this, not only to attempt to balance the scales in the tone depar...

IS OBAMA AN AUTHORITARIAN? I wrote the article below for the Philadelphia "Bulletin" and it appeared there on 10th. I think its interest is not confined to Philadelphia, however, so I reprint it below. My many academic papers on authoritarianism can be accessed here Among psychologists, the word "au...

The opening round of the Snap-on Stars of Karting Eastern Division program ended Sunday with a successful weekend completed at the Ocala Gran Prix in Ocala, Florida. A picture perfect weekend of weather and no red flag incidents throughout the three days on track made for great event. The intensity ...

 http://wtcdemolition.blogspot.com/ In attempting to ascertain what caused the destruction of the WTC on 9/11/01, and the great heat and molten metal observed for up to six months afterward, one must account for ALL the phenomena involved in WTC destruction, and the aftermath-- and not just one...