So wait, was the British Parliament effectively at Murdoch’s beck and call? Imagine the uproar if a US Congressional committee traveled “privately” to take a foreign news magnate’s testimony. Or would that just be called a junket with justification?
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Just lost phones and LAN. Severe thunderstorms were predicted. #fb # RT @TLW3 "The real reason conservatives are angry at Obama http://wapo.st/pHWVSi #p2 #p21 #dems #tcot" # RT @JohnFugelsang "If you need a break from all this news coverage of the Rupert Murdoch hacking scandals allow me to recommend FOX News." # The stupid, it burns; teh happeh, it tickles! # Polls show that a majority of Americans support raising taxes on the rich and on corporations. Call your Congressperson. # Willing to help, anyway I can. Just sayin.' #fb # Heard surprising news yesterday. Heard David Bowie's "Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes" on…
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So sad. Another “national Tea Party convention” cancelled due to lack of interest… and funding, since it was billed as a true grassroots-organized event not supported by one of the AstroTurf groups that pay for the buses and the wall-to-wall FOX News coverage. Organizers of the Freedom Jamboree announced Wednesday that they have canceled the tea party convention planned for this fall, citing low registration. They had hoped the event would serve as a stage for Republican presidential candidates to court the conservative movement, and two — Rep. Michele Bachmann Minn. and former Sen. Rick Santorum Pa. — had already…
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Something I missed before; the phone hack of murder victim Milly Dowler was back in 2002 according to this. I conflated it with the royal voicemail scandal, which is a different but likely related story. I’ll guess that journos and PIs have been figuring out how easy it is to navigate voicemails since the technology was invented. Maybe they found it more convenient and less risky than breaking in to homes and offices to listen to taped messages on the old first generation machines? Since many people never changed the default passwords on their analog and digital voicemails, it just…
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RT @cdashiell "Only the liberal churches protested slavery." # Wow, an oil pipeline UNDER a major river. What genius thought that one up? # No asthma or tight chest today! #fb # What is wrong with United Airlines at IAD? Long lines, nobody available to check my guy in because kiosk can't handle British passport??!! # 2nd time this week UA at IAD has my people missing flights because no one available to help customers. The kiosks don't work for everyone. # London Bomb Blasts: You Can't Beat the System http://flic.kr/p/39bDK # RT @ThriftyinWhite: Just got assigned an indepth story…
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As a progressive who abhors the unprecedented and frighting hold Murdoch holds over Fox News, and by extension the radical Religious Right in the US, his fall from power as Britain’s “uncrowned king” can’t come soon enough. And with the latest news breaking that millions of emails pertinent to the scandal might have been deleted by a News International executive, it’s possible the scandal may jump the pond and take a few of Murdoch’s US institutions down AND even a family member or two. Oh, I hope so. I do hope so. And now, Andy Coulson has been arrested: he’s…
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I bought this mug 20 years ago, photographed it for the Flickr London Bomb Blasts group on 7/7/05
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We’ve done a little finding, but prefer to do it when on vacation.
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We saw Kung Fu Panda 2 yesterday, and it was a joy to see a sequel that extended the original story so seamlessly and with such generous emotional satisfaction. Ebert liked it too, but thought the 3-D version detracted. Based on that assessment, we saw the “normal” 2-D version, and liked it very much indeed: “Kung Fu Panda 2” is exactly as you’d expect, and more. The animation is elegant, the story is much more involving than in the original, and there’s boundless energy. I enjoyed it as fully as I possibly could, given the horror of its 3-D. The…
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From today’s Astronomy Picture of the Day, a video of the southern sky. Ocean Sky from Alex Cherney on Vimeo.