While promising Hope and Change, Obama's real promise is clearly being translated as Hopeless Corruption. The pick of Clinton Administration figure Eric Holder who was criticized in a Congressional report for ethical violations involving the infamous pardon of fugitive criminal Marc Rich, followed b...

1. This Saturday sees The King of Comedy, Jerry Lewis, in conversation with Peter Bogdanovich at The Times Center in Manhattan. Information on the event can be found here. In conjunction, the Museum has commissioned an essay by Chris Fujiwara, now up at Moving Image Source . ["Lewis's films are adve...

I've just finished reading Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion , by Hal Abelson, Ken Ledeen, and Harry Lewis, and it's another title worth adding to your tech policy reading list. The authors survey a broad swath of tech policy territory -- privacy, search, e...

President-elect Barack Obama's interview on Sunday's "60 Minutes" garnered the venerable news magazine its highest ratings in nearly a decade. NBC should have got him to do a cameo on "My Own Worst Enemy". You might occasionally get a celebrity tidbit from the TV Junkie, but that's not our thing. If...

I’ve just finished reading Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion , by Hal Abelson, Ken Ledeen, and Harry Lewis, and it’s another title worth adding to your tech policy reading list. The authors survey a broad swath of tech policy territory — p...

Colorado Media Matters: KNUS' Andrews allowed guest to misstate labor law in promoting "right-to-work" Colorado Media Matters: KNUS' Andrews allowed guest to repeat distortion of Obama's 2001 WBEZ interview It's definitely a bare market for Longmont twins Denver Post, CO - KBCO radio's Stu...

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This is the week that was in matters musical … 1877, Ernst Siemens patents the first loudspeaker … 1952, the first British pop chart is published in the New Musical Express … the top six songs are all U.S. acts and are led by Al Martino’s “Here in My Heart” &he...

Back in my film school days at Columbia College in Chicago, I took a class entitled "History Of Cinema" and met a teacher named Scott Marks. Scott was the first teacher who got all my inside jokes, pop-culture references, and shared a love for movies, Jerry Lewis, Sammy Davis, Jr., and a certain Chi...

My favorite story tonight is the one about the Bedouin tribe in north Israel who claim Barack Hussein Obama as a long-lost member. Should be an interesting family reunion… Thanks to Abu Elvis, C. Cantoni, Diana West, Insubria, JD, Kahane loyalist, TB, and all the other tipsters who sent these in. ...