When Meet The Press needs an expert to talk about the Nuclear Melt Downs now occurring in Japan, who do they turn to?

A nuke industry lobbyist.

Marvin S. Fertel, President of the Nuclear Energy Institute, the lobbying association for the Nuclear industry.

How incestuous is NBC with the lobbying communit… Read full post »

An Ivy-League education for all Americans? It's now possible.

Harvard. Yale, MIT. University of Chicago. CalTech. Princeton. Columbia. University of Pennsylvania, Stanford. Duke.

America's Top 10 Universities according to the latest US News and World Report Rankings have announced that they have init… Read full post »

Will a Bristol win on Dancing With The Stars burst Sarah Palin’s POTUS balloon?

Looking back on the POTUS wannabe families that passed before The Reviewing Stand in the last presidential cycle, we were struck by the changes in the role of the children in the campaign.

Mitt Romney… Read full post »

In a few days, the International AIDS Conference in Vienna will open and there will be alot of talk about Donor 45.

Yesterday's Wall Street Journal featured an article by Mark Schoofs about Donor 45 and some amazing strides in the treatment of HIV. 

Schoof writes::

In the latest development,… Read full post »

My twitter feed is full of opportunities to volunteer to help clean up the impending environmental disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.

Hell, no.

American's have always answered the call to help other Americans, and people around the world, in time of Natural Disasters. Hurricanes. Earthquakes.

But there… Read full post »

Total speculation follows only informed by a familiarity with people who have produced Ice Shows and friends who have skated in shows from Sonia Henie and MGM Movietones through Ice Capades and Disney on Ice and scores of Indy and Amusement Park shows.

First, I do not believe… Read full post »

In Sunday's Politico piece dissecting MSM's failure to uncover the truth about John Edwards, Michael Calderone makes the case that the daily interaction with Journalists during a presidential campaign fails to adequately vet Presidential candidates. 

"The revelations about Edwards, containe… Read full post »

“Obama has Steel in his Spine”

I watched the Blair House Project for most of its seven hours on Thursday, and I just don’t get the spin I heard on CNN and repeated in the Economist piece that “the toxic, unpopular GOP leadership didn’t speak and let younger, newer member… Read full post »

Watching the Sotomayor hearings and seeing the GOP Senators dance around states' rights and gun rights and hypotheticals, I thought of this...

In the event that a member of the military is killed, and who is legally married to a person of the same sex..

Can the spouse claim the body?… Read full post »

The pain in my shoulder started about 3 weeks ago, most irritating when sitting at my desk. I self treated with Aleve, hoping that the pain would just go away. I hadn't been to the doctor for a year, really no reason to, since I had been feeling well.

I didn't… Read full post »