[caption id="attachment_13599" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="What's behind the mask? Facebook knows."][/caption]There are things about your friends you don’t really want to know. If you’ve been thinking about signing up for Facebook, you have probably hesitated for one or more of several reasons. These might include: You’re concerned about Facebook privacy issues you’ve heard about; Social sites ...

According to Wikipedia, the term “third world” originally described countries that did not align themselves with either the capitalist USA or the communist USSR. As time has marched on and the Soviet Union has disappeared, the definition has changed. This is a definition that seems to describe the modern definition of third-world countries: … nations which struggle to compete because of a lack of one or mor ...

This instrument [television] can teach, it can illuminate; yes, and it can even inspire. But it can do so only to the extent that humans are determined to use it to those ends. Otherwise it is merely wires and lights in a box. -- Edward R. Murrow ...

[caption id="attachment_10747" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="The Mayfields of Oregon were subjected to FBI harassment thanks to the Patriot Act. (Photo by The Oregonian)"][/caption] The FBI admitted, almost six years ago now, that they messed up when they came after Brandon Mayfield. They even apologized for insisting he had something to do with the terrorist bombing in Madrid that killed 191 and i ...

It appears that "going rogue" is all the rage these days, and the police officers of Portland, Oregon, seem determined to get in on the fad. A burgeoning public relations fiasco in the City of Roses revolves around one particular officer. Earlier this month, Portland Police Officer Chris Humphreys was caught on video surveillance shooting a beanbag gun at a twelve-year-old girl at close range. Portland Poli ...

She was posing for the cover of Runner’s World magazine. It never occurred to Sarah Palin, when she leaned on a disheveled American flag and held up two Blackberries to the camera, that her legs peeking out from those running shorts would end up on the cover of Newsweek. On her Facebook page, Sarah Palin is calling out Newsweek for sexism: "The choice of photo for the cover of this week's Newsweek is unfort ...

Apparently, Steven M. Champlin is a guy who shuns the spotlight and shies away from cameras. Which is why it comes as a surprise that he burst into the headlines last week with a controversial speech at  a national forum of America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), a health industry trade group. Champlin addressed a State Issues Conference at the AHIP forum. He was quoted in the Huffington Post: "There is ab ...

Barack Obama was elected, in part at least, for his calm demeanor. He doesn’t get ruffled and never seems nervous or ill at ease. In November 2008 that was very appealing. But a year later, it’s downright frustrating! Obama is constantly confronted with poorly-framed arguments, irrational paranoia, and outright lies – and yet he continues to react placidly. We watch the idiots trying to kill the massively-p ...

If anybody knows what's on the minds of liberals, it's Fox's Bill O'Reilly. And he says the liberals are coming after Michele Bachmann. If O'Reilly says it, it must be true. OK, Bill, you read me like a book. I, a liberal, am obsessed with the Congresswoman from Minnesota; I hang on her every nonsensical word. I guess it all started when Sarah Palin forfeited her starring role as America's Most Inarticulate ...

I'm a major fan of freshman Representative Alan Grayson (D-FL) -- which comes as no small surprise, considering I didn't even know anything about him until a few days ago. Then he stood in the august halls of Congress and, right there in front of God and everybody, described the Republican health care "plan" with two simple sentences: "Don't get sick. If you get sick, die quickly." And now the GOP is howlin ...