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This is a poignant, plaintive tweet that will surely be heard around the world.

Dave Winer grabbed my attention with his tweet:
RT @davewiner "My dad didn't wake up this morning.."

That took me to the twitter page of YoungBillyMays

His tweet was a little...

Received a month ago, but not published because they were unsubstantiated-- here is a small sampling of the romantic email exchanges between Stanford and his paramour, Maria, published in full at thestate.com

These emails sent about a year ago, in June and July of 2008, show a budding romance...

They finally did it, voted for impeachment.

On page 12 of section A, in a one paragraph "article, the NY Times reports that the US house of representatives has voted to impeach.

Sorry. We're not talking about Bush or Cheney or anyone else related to them --...

At Midnight, Friday night, facebook.com started offering what twitter and myspace have long offered -- personalized URLs for users. Within hours over a million were taken and by the end of the weekend, over 5 million had been grabbed.

I found out today, Monday morning, so my first choice robkall,...

Last week, a right wing extremist known to be mentally ill murdered an abortion doctor, who Bill O'Reilly repeatedly called "Tiller the baby killer."

Yesterday an imbalanced right wing extremist killed a guard at the Jewish Holocaust Museum.

What's next? A gay couple...

President Barack Obama reported today that a number of banks which received bailout funds will be paying back $68 billion dollars, making a profit for the government.

Obama discussed getting rid of no-bid contracts, revising military spending, tightening medicare ... and he called for restoring PayGo-- the pay as you...

A family member's brutal beating by a gang has me extra pissed. Time to get out in the streets to demand universal health insurance like every other first world nation has. There are too many horror stories affecting too many Americans.

It's time to pay a LOT more attention to...

Angels and Demons opens in theaters on May 15th.

Let's start with the end. The way you feel when you walk out of a movie says a lot about the movie. Screenwriting coach Robert McKee, author of Story Structure, says that there's not much to say if you watch...

So, there I was, sitting in the house in the blue-collar Fishtown section of Philly and the phone rang. He started laughing. "It's a call about Arlen Specter's 2010 campaign," he explained.

Ends up, the NRSCC-- the National Republican Senate Campaign Committee -- sponsored the robocall to attack Specter.

The...

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Altria, formerly R.J. Reynolds, the tobacco company, has been rebuffed by the U.S. Supreme Court in it's third effort to get out of paying a $79 million punitive damages judgment a jury awarded in 1999 because the widow of a patient who died of...

Lately, we're having more conversations about corporations whose behaviors have been outrageous, shameful, even criminal. These conversations sometimes lead to people saying this or that company is the worst, the most evil, the most murderous, the most corrupt or corrupting, the most destructive, most exploitative.

Some of the companies often...

Rob Kall Interviewed TED speaker Barry Schwartz on the Rob Kall Bottom-Up Radio show, WNJC 1360, February 25, 2009. The interview was transcribed by Jay Farrington and Carla Gilby, and edited by Jay Farrington.
Listen to a recording of the radio interview.

Barry Schwartz is...

A CBS NY Times poll reports that Michelle Obama, at this early stage in her husband's presidency, is the most popular First Lady of all recent first ladies.

The poll reports, "49% have a favorable opinion of her, while only 5% hold a negative view." And...

The last few days there's been an uproar on Facebook.com over a chance in their terms of service. The new rules suggested that Facebook would own the content people posted on the site, even personal information after the person closed out their account.

The old saying goes, "Where there's...

David Brooks describes a dark, depressing future that is best seen through the eyes of right wingers who don't have faith in America, Americans and transparent, open, fair, rational economics. Like night dwellers reveling in stygian "safety", the fear the world that clean government and regulations will create. Those nocturnal...

You don't have to be a pothead to see that the writing is on the wall, that the end of pot prohibition is near.

Neither Barack Obama nor Michael Phelps is out in the streets protesting for the legalization of marijuana use, but let's face it, when the most...

President Obama cites his bottom up intentions and promises all the time, almost every day. Yesterday, he said, when he was admitting he screwed up, with Daschle, "Ultimately, I campaigned on changing Washington and bottom up politics."

But his gazillion dollar bailout plan is not even close to bottom up....

We urgently need a strong, tough, clean leader to take charge of fixing our badly broken, hemorrhaging health care system. The job is too important to have a tarnished Tom Daschle, with his questionable ties to health care industry, in charge.

The leadership needed to fix our health care system...

It is not a bit surprising that Republicans -- seeing the powerful success of Obama's bottom-up campaign, with its historic fundraising power, its grassroots mobilization and the database of millions -- want to try to replicate the technology. It may not be that simple for newly elected RNC chair Michael...

I told a few people about it -- how, during the inauguration, I cried. I told them how, all morning, leading up to the inauguration I was choking up, so much, at some points, that I had trouble talking.

I didn't write about it then. But Dick Cavett...