Archive for October, 2006

Studio 60 Deserves a Second Look

Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip is a smart, entertaining drama that isn’t finding its audience. While the pundits don’t say so, perhaps the attitude of Matt Albie as presented in the pilot has something to do with it. Albie is Matthew Perry’s character, the head writer of the Saturday Night Live-style show, [...]

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The Demise of Polite Political Discourse (or, “Mean People Suck”)

It became acceptable, at some point, to invoke invective and hurl insults at those on the other side of the political fence rather than engage and discuss issues. I’m not sure when the line was crossed and the adults decided to start acting like middle school bullies. Perhaps it started when it became [...]

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KT Tunstall

After all the “whiney chick music” that has been passing for pop music these days, its refreshing to see a genuine performer with a voice that doesn’t sound like something from a synthesizer. My daughter introduced KT Tunstall to me via her You Tube Video, a rip from a French TV show where she [...]

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Simple Utility - big bucks?

With the change coming up for my first website at EV1.NET, I had to move a few dozen web pages chock full of complete links to other pages on the site. A few years back, I moved my messing-about.com site to its own domain, and had the same task to do. At that [...]

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More on “The Language of God”

There’s a hostile undercurrent towards Francis Collins’ wonderful book “The Language of God” among some of those who are dedicated to the fight against creationism and ID (see my review of the book Here.)
After reading a few of the comments at PandasThumb, cited earlier in my review of the book linked above, I did a [...]

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