Eunice Kennedy Shriver dedicated her life to improving the lives of those with special needs. The depth of her success is evident in this December 2008 profile of the Special Olympics by Sports Illustrated.
Bob Dylan Doesn’t Always Respect His Paying Audience
Where: Tempe, Arizona, 1980
Dylan Era: Born-Again BobThe Weirdness: Deep into his three-year fire-and-brimstone fundamentalist phase, Dylan found himself confronted by a hostile crowd of University Of Arizona students. They wanted to hear the hits—but Uncle Bob wouldn’t budge. He played nothing but his brand-new, Jesus-powered material. “If you want rock ’n’ roll, you can go see Kiss and rock ’n’ roll all the way down to the pit!” Dylan snarled from on high. Gene Simmons and Satan were unavailable for comment, but one can only imagine that both parties were pleased.
The Austin A.V. Club chronicles Bob Dylan’s best (worst?) onstage meltdowns.
Who You Gonna Call?
The court documents provide a detailed paper trail showing how Wyeth contracted with a medical communications company to outline articles, draft them and then solicit top physicians to sign their names, even though many of the doctors contributed little or no writing. The documents suggest the practice went well beyond the case of Wyeth and hormone therapy, involving numerous drugs from other pharmaceutical companies.
As the New York Times reports, phamaceutical companies paid ghostwriters to compile review papers touting the benefits of new drugs, with doctors then signing on as authors. But it would be a shame if we did anything to reform the healthcare industry, thus stifling their innovation.
The Racism is Dead in America Report
Are you kidding???? Give me a break Aren’t you people in the world sick of all the whining??? When was the last time an ” african american” got in trouble for calling a white man a cracker, whiteboy or whatever. What more do the “black” communities want?? White people don’t have a united ” white” college fund or WET tv program, or “white” history month ect…… If they got everything and more they would still be whining about RACE. Get over it
Sadly No proves racism is dead by compiling comments supporting a Boston cop who called Henry Louis Gates Jr. “a jungle monkey.
No Retreat, No Compromise
I’m fully aware of what the Washington conventions are that lead to rampant lawlessness and corruption, and have become aware of media conventions that enable such behavior. I don’t criticize standard Washington behavior because — as Massing put it — I’m “oblivious” to those conventions. It’s that I think those conventions are radically flawed and twisted and ought to be smashed.
Blogger Glenn Greenwald throws down the thunder on media coverage of law and politics.