Here's one: Imagine a world without WalMart. Where you walk onto the main street in town and buy coffee not at Starbuck's but from your friend, who knows exactly what you want and has it ready by the time you get to the counter.
Going into Anderson Cooper's speech, I was a bit hesitant to let my expectations run wild. He is, after all, a highly public figure whose reputation always precedes him, but he's also a television broadcaster who came in on a private jet.
Leading up to what's sure to be a riveting tiny break before the final leg of the school year jumps upon us, this week's Opinions section is once more chock-full of info to help those little gray cells, as Hercule Poirot would put it.
It makes perfect sense now that I think about it...if GM is failing at making cars that people want to use, then of course it should venture into the highly goofy market of personal transportation vehicles and team up with Segway.
Fox News has lost its credibility when it has the House Republican Minority Leader John Boehner write a story on its blog starting with the phrase, "With Democrats now firmly in charge of Congress and the White House, Washington is increasingly out of control." Who even wants to read it with an open mind now, besides the far right? Let us address the issue that Republicans have in which, as Boehner puts it, "government is crossing lines [Americans] never thought they'd see their government cross." In the wake of an administration that nearly destroyed the reputation of the Republican party, it's pretty ballsy to say that. The only thing that can be referred to in this statement is the amount of money spent in the bills passed since January 20.
Taking on childhood storybook gold, Spike Jonze is getting to do what every modern director wants to.
As the second movie review for the blog, Adventureland seems like a perfect choice. It's not as by-the-numbers and predictably hilarious as "I Love You, Man," or as mind-numbingly moderately-amusing as "Monsters vs.
Well, North Korea went through with its threats and launched their long-range rocket, failing to reach U.S.
The title sounds like something out of a poor Japanese translation guide, but it highlights the little-mentioned problem of just how those websites we all know and love are supposed to be profitable.
There's something inherent to anything related to blogging or any opinions section. Complaining. Glorified whining about why things and wrong and how they should be.
The G20 started with a clash of elegance and fury, a rather apt combination considering it's being held in London.
The Guardian has pretty much sucked the April Fool's wind out of my sails, beating any ideas that I had for a post celebrating the most fiendish holiday of them all. My cranky attitude toward Twitter is well-known, and The Guardian pleased me to no end with its announcement of a switch to a Twitter-exclusive publishing model. Just look at how effective The Guardian was in reporting past events in Twitter! 1927 OMG first successful transatlantic air flight wow, pretty cool!
In the midst of being described a criminal by U.N. experts last month, and the attempts of recovery from his appallingly disliked administration, ex-V.P.
The haggling over the stimulus package started up again with a bridge to Microsoft parking lot. The $36 million project connecting two wings of Microsoft's headquarters will be the lucky recipient of $11 million in federal aid, because Microsoft's cash reserves are, of course, historically minute.
Today, while carefully splitting my time between the Pendulum and ESPN, I was excitedly sitting through Baseball Tonight's analysis of the American League East.
"But just in case there are still nagging doubts, let me say it as plainly as I can -- if you buy a car from Chrysler or General Motors, you will be able to get your car serviced and repaired, just like always.
Rio de Janeiro, seeking to curb its growing poverty problem, has come to an interesting conclusion.
Rick Wagoner, the former CEO of General Motors, is on the outs. This should come to little surprise, given his general ineptitude and the general failure of GM to do much of anything successful.
Usually baseball is a sport that has little international significance. Soccer/football leads entire nations to spill into the streets and ignite things in joy or despair, all of the Olympic sports have great bouts of nationalism attached to them every four years, but baseball always seems to be a highly isolated affair. Until Japan beat South Korea 5-3 in the World Baseball Classic, on Monday that is.
