Turns out human men vary in ways other than color of necktie, according to CNN, which revealed its discovery Sunday after noticing in its offices a male intern who seemed vulnerable:
Some guys still try to be manly and try to be like strong and…
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As the Google Trends graph shows, many Americans learned a new phrase today. But after so many decades of meddling in the Middle East, why did it take so many of us so long to learn this disarming way to say hello?
PRESIDENT OBAMA: Thank you very…
By the time Talking Points Memo yanked a reader blog yesterday calling for global warming skeptics to be jailed or executed, that language had made the rounds of a right-wing blog network in what they call a “Shock Call to Action.” The initiator of…
President Obama was not the only American official addressing an audience today. After the president said “assalaamu alaykum” to the Arab world, Energy Secretary Steven Chu admitted to being a nerd and sent Harvard graduates off with a greeting that…
Dara O’Rourke is right. The Berkeley professor says we’ll discover something curious if we compare the ingredients labels on typical hand soap with the nastiest chemicals we can find in the house.
I started in the basement, with a bottle that lurks…
Now that calling Sonia Sotomayor a racist has right wingers fighting each other instead of fighting Democrats, some are retreating to a position they reconnoitered on the morning she was appointed: calling her an environmentalist.
They’re still doing…
President Obama’s stimulus package was such a boon for the environment that, as I’ve mentioned before, pointing out its deficiencies seemed like pointing to a missing tooth in a gift horse. But that missing tooth, if I may ungratefully point to it…
UPDATED: 2:10 p.m. June 1 with comment from the State Department (in which the press officer admits he doesn’t know why Cantu’s with Clinton).
UPDATED: 10:10 p.m. June 1 in a related post: The Monitor reaches Cantu by phone and he’s not talking.
When…
Unlike this reporter, the Monitor is equipped with Texas millionaire Alonzo Cantu’s cell phone number. But when they reached him this afternoon to ask why he’s in El Salvador with Hillary Clinton, Cantu wasn’t talking:
Just why Cantu, who has helped…
Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm spent the weekend preparing for GM’s bankruptcy by painting her state a new shade of green. In her radio address, on her blog, in a speech to the Detroit Chamber of Commerce, and in a guest column at the Huffington…
