Filed at 11:09 pm, Sunday December 31st 2006
by Arlen Parsa
Well, it’s the end of the year, so everybody’s got their end of the year lists. Here are some that I liked, organized roughly by category.
Photos
BBC: The Year in Pictures
TIME Magazine: Best Photos of the Year- 2006
BadAstronomy.com: The Top Ten Astronomy Images of 2006
Sports Illustrated: The Year’s Most Interesting Pictures
Science/Technology
TIME Magazine: The 50 Coolest Websites […]
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Filed at 6:32 pm, Sunday December 31st 2006
by Arlen Parsa
Oh boy. The Associated Press has teamed up with their Super Serious Polling Partnertm/New Best Buddytm AOL to provide us with the following poll results:
Six in 10 people think the U.S. will be the victim of another terrorist attack next year, more than five years after the Sept. 11 assault on New York and Washington. […]
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Filed at 12:30 pm, Sunday December 31st 2006
by Arlen Parsa
Here are my predictions for 2007. One year from today, we’ll revisit this post and see if any of these came true (I’d be shocked if any did, but it’s still worth saying).
- Former Vice Presidential aide Lewis Libby manages to “forget” the date of his first day in court and does not show up. […]
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Filed at 9:30 am, Sunday December 31st 2006
by Arlen Parsa
2006 has been a good year for politically-charged films- both fiction and non. So when I got my hands on an advance screening copy of Children of Men (from Universal Pictures and Strike Entertainment; wide theatrical release in opened December 29th in the USA), I wasn’t surprised to find it had strong political overtones as […]
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Filed at 7:57 pm, Saturday December 30th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
Greg Mitchell over at E&P has a great column this week titled “Surge Protectors.” In it, he examines the media’s coverage of Bush’s “surge” plan, specifically focusing on the language used. Do they continue to use the word “surge” as the Pentagon does and the Administration is expected to- or do they use the more […]
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Filed at 6:05 pm, Saturday December 30th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
I just wanted to offer a quick note of apology to my regular readers: if the site has been acting a teensy bit sluggish or slow today it’s because Brian over at TVNewser (one of the best damn media blogs out there) linked here and the server isn’t used to this much traffic (I’m loving […]
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Filed at 3:49 pm, Saturday December 30th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
Oh man, you gotta check this out, it’s simply unbelievable. An environmental nonprofit, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility sent out a press release which made its way to me the other day. Listen to this:
Grand Canyon National Park is not permitted to give an official estimate of the geologic age of its principal feature, due […]
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Filed at 9:30 am, Saturday December 30th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
How’s everybody’s Saturday going so far? A few items that I wanted to start off with today, but a few items beforehand. Firstly, I’m considering a major site redesign. I have some free time these days (my college’s winter break is very generous), and the red in the current design is kind of getting to […]
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Filed at 10:33 pm, Friday December 29th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
I was reminded last night of a post that I wrote back in early November right after Saddam Hussein was found guilty in the case that saw him sentenced to death just yesterday. Here’s the post in full, as I think it is perhaps more timely now than when I originally wrote it.
*****
Saddam Hussein, a […]
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Filed at 4:51 pm, Friday December 29th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
Surprise. For those that still give a damn, AP sez Saddam will hang by 10PM EST tonight. By the way, check out this note from TV Newswer regarding whether or not the networks will air the videotape of his death (it will be videotaped, the Iraqi government says). Whether or not it will be […]
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Filed at 4:16 pm, Friday December 29th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
Associated Press teamed up with AOL (ugh, you know it can’t be that serious if AOL has anything to do with it) and Ipsos to conduct a poll asking Americans what public figures they must regarded as heros as villians.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, President Bush topped both categories. But what’s more interesting is that while he won […]
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Filed at 12:30 pm, Friday December 29th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
Hold on everybody, I am trying to remember why I detest Joe Lieberman. Oh yeah, here’s a reminder, right here on page A27 of today’s Washington Post in an op-ed penned by the “Independent Democratic” Connecticut Senator bluntly titled “Why We Need More Troops in Iraq.”
As the hostile regimes in Iran and Syria appreciate — […]
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Filed at 9:30 am, Friday December 29th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
Above is a photograph of Democrat John Edwards announcing his candidacy for US President in the still-devastated Lower 9th Ward of New Orleans, Thursday. Edwards wore a faded pair of blue jeans and a button down shirt sans necktie as he echoed a meme which has been his theme for the past two years: two […]
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Filed at 5:35 pm, Thursday December 28th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
No link yet, but NBC News is reporting that Saddam Hussein will be dead within 48 hours and will likely hang on Saturday… stay tuned and update this page for more. AFP also reported today that:
The White House expects ousted Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein to be executed perhaps as early as Saturday, a senior […]
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Filed at 5:07 pm, Thursday December 28th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
Raw Story reports today that conservative columnist BobNovak believes John McCain’s support for sending more troops to Iraq is hurting him politically:
“The decline in the polls of [McCain], as measured against [Clinton], reflects more than declining Republican popularity nationally in the weeks after the election,” writes Novak in his exclusive report. “It connotes public disenchantment […]
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