Happy birthday, Adam D.
Happy birthday, Adam D. Pearl.
Mariane Pearl, the widow of the Wall Street Journal reporter murdered earlier this year, gave birth Thursday to a son, Adam D. Pearl, in Paris. --wsj
Where would we be
Where would we be without marketing research? Here's the latest, just in time for Memorial Day:
Of those who wear aprons with funny sayings and puns on them, 61 percent are optimistic about the economy, while only 19 percent of those who wear plain aprons are as upbeat, Integer said.
However, only 34 percent of the men and 8 percent of the women surveyed acknowledged wearing funny aprons.
So do you think
So do you think this guy is just faking it? Groom Loses All Memory of Marriage.
"He returned to the airport parking lot after telling his wife he forgot his wallet, and then he went missing," a Houston police spokesman said.
California is an amazing
California is an amazing place. One of its lesser known traits is its abundance of cities that kind of sound like something funny but don't really. For example:
- Oxnard: the delicate bits of a large farm animal?
- Los Banos: the facilities at a Mexican restaurant?
- Chowchilla: a small dog?
- Coalinga: a sexual favor?
There are some things
There are some things you tell people and some things you keep to yourself. If you're the President of the United States, the fact that your nickname for Russian president Vladimir Putin is Pootie-Poot should fall into the latter category.
How much did the
How much did the President know about the Sep. 11 attacks before they happened? If you believe the White House, they didn't know a thing. Reporters are revealing a completely different story, though:
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Bush Was Warned bin Laden Wanted to Hijack Planes
In the past few days, government officials have acknowledged for the first time that an F.B.I. agent in Phoenix had urged the F.B.I. headquarters to investigate Middle Eastern men enrolled in American flight schools. That memorandum also cited Mr. bin Laden by name... -
Lawmakers Demand Answers From White House About 9-11 Warnings
Under fire from angry lawmakers Thursday, the White House defended its decision not to alert Americans to information before the Sept. 11 attacks that Osama bin Laden's terrorist network wanted to hijack U.S. airplanes. -
Hijack Warnings Said Unspecfic
But Rice said the administration never considered alerting the public to a possible hijacking threat at home, and had no idea that hijackers might consider using an airplane as a missile in a suicide attack. -
1999 Study Warned of Suicide Hijack
"Suicide bomber(s) belonging to al-Qaida's Martyrdom Battalion could crash-land an aircraft packed with high explosives (C-4 and semtex) into the Pentagon, the headquarters of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), or the White House," the September 1999 report said.
Isn't it curious that the White House waited until a CBS News investigative report broke the story--eight months after the attacks--before admitting that they had some early warnings? Isn't it telling how articles #3 and #4 on the list above contradict one another? How ready are we to accept the news if the government did have opportunity to prevent the attacks? That the 1999 report even exists proves someone was warned. If this pattern continues, it could very well be Bush's Watergate. And lest I be accused of being partisan here, let's consider that in 1999, the Clinton administration was still in office.
Addendum: Watching White House press secretary Ari Fleischer skirt around every direct question at the televised press conference is incredibly disappointing. Wouldn't it be a shocker to get a straight answer one of these days?
We just had a
We just had a long, 5.2 magnitude earthquake a few seconds ago. Nothing broken; a fireplace poker has fallen out of its stand; the water in my glass is still shaking.
In the kitchen, where I was standing when it began, the floor moved such that I felt like I was riding on the deck of a ship.
If you're like me,
If you're like me, you stopped watching ER soon after executive producers Jack Orman and John Wells decided no episode would be complete without a major tragedy befalling at least one main character within the first thirty minutes. On the wrong end of stabbings, beatings, homicides, and brain tumors, the doctors at Chicago County General seem to be walking lightning rods just waiting for a storm.
But I managed to put aside my ban on all things melodramatic last week and actually sat down to watch the show again after hearing that it would be one of Dr. Mark Green's last episodes. Anthony Edwards, who plays Dr. Green, decided it was time to leave the show and so the writers killed off his character. (Congratulations, it's a tumor!) So I watched as, at approximately 10:05pm last Thursday, fellow doctor John Carter read aloud the letter announcing Green's death.
While the episode was, I admit, devoid of any sensationalist disasters--besides the death of the main character, of course--it still had one major flaw: You see, Dr. Green is a murderer.
In an episode last year, Dr. Green purposely killed a patient by refusing to resuscitate him. Granted, the patient was a psychopath in his own right, and that was supposed to be the crux of the moral dilemma. But this was never completely resolved in the following episodes. What a thought: Orman and Wells successfully managed to get millions of viewers around the nation teary eyed for a dead murderer. Now that's entertainment.
Does NBC really think we're morally confused enough to be fooled by the "grey area" in Green's decision to kill a man on a gurney before him? Apparently they do. And apparently we are. Be sure to tune in to this week's episode--another tear-jerker that looks at Dr. Green's last days with his wife and kids. Unfortunately, it won't be my preferred ending for the good doctor: an extended prison sentence on one count of homicide. Maybe then Anthony Edwards could make a cameo appearance on Oz.
It's the best thing
It's the best thing since sliced bread. No, really. Sara Lee Corp. announces "baking's biggest breakthrough..."
