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...

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 ...

Rebecca: We're doing a roundtable Friday on Iraq. That is not this roundtable. This roundtable is on Afghanistan. Participating are The Third Estate Sunday Review 's Dona, Ava, and C.I. -- C.I. also of The Common Ills , me -- Rebecca -- of Sex and Politics and Screeds and Attitude , Betty of Thomas ...

The Democrats have been been trying to bash the Republican party as the party run by Rush Limbaugh. El Rushbo is not the head of the party (although they could do a lot worse). If the Republican Leadership had any guts they would speak out about who really runs the Democratic Party, Nazi Collaborato...

There’s an overwhelming number of news items here tonight — almost a hundred. If you all think that this operation is becoming unmanageably large, please let me know. With all the juicy items that people send me, it’s hard to pick which ones to leave out. Thanks to Abu Elvis, C. Cantoni, CSP, ...

   FDR's use of his wheelchair and the ability of his handlers to not call attention to it, is the focus of a wonderfully clear and well-written book, entitled "Splendid Deception". I've owned it for years and highly recomend it. The book details FDR's deceptive success in NEVER calling attention ...

Today is International Women's Day and there's no celebrating in Iraq. IRIN notes Oxfam International's [PDF formart warning] "In Her Own Words: Iraqi women talka bout their greatest concerns and challenges," a survey of 1,700 Iraqi women -- approximately 60% of whom say that security is their first...

Jeff Huber wrote yet another fine article recently, this one titled Enduring Blunder . (Sounds like one of those macho U.S. military names for their failed campaigns, doesn't it? Operation Desert Storm. Operation Iraqi Freedom. Operation Enduring Thunder. And the truth of the matter. Operation Endur...

PART TWO OF TWO PARTS In the previous post I discussed the Ayn Rand novel ‘Atlas Shrugged’, and how the intent of that novel is most relevant right now. So, then how does something like this apply to the current situation we are in now? Is it just following something from a fiction novel...

Spotify: The Future of Music? - TrustedReviews Link to a specific part of a YouTube video "If you want to link to a specific part of a video on YouTube, you can. For example, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjDw3azfZWI#t=31m08s Notice the “#t=31m08s� on the end of the url? That link will tak...