News from September 2008
September 30th, 2008 by Bender Rodríguez
What were they thinking, setting the series in Los Angeles?
September 29th, 2008 by Bender Rodríguez
Governor Sarah Palin's Churches and The Third Wave movement, a video that was censored from the YouTube website after more than 160,000 views.
September 27th, 2008 by Bender Rodríguez
Metadata parses like this are the tools that will take the Internets to the next level
September 26th, 2008 by Bender Rodríguez
The Great Schlep aims to have Jewish grandchildren visit their grandparents in Florida, educate them about Obama, and therefore swing the crucial Florida vote in his favor.
September 25th, 2008 by Bender Rodríguez
I was quite upset when Clay moved in and made off with Half Sack's girl, just to spite him for saying that Gemma gave him a MILF chubby. Bastard.
September 23rd, 2008 by Bender Rodríguez
por Marjorie Agosín.
September 23rd, 2008 by Bender Rodríguez
Lalo Alcaraz es la hóstia, un genio, pero es practicamente un desconocido en Estados Unidos entre la pública no latina.
September 22nd, 2008 by Bender Rodríguez
Satire worthy of Bugs Bunny and friends, from an email making its way around the Interwebs
September 20th, 2008 by Bender Rodríguez
As a kid, Saturday morning meant one thing: cartoons. Remember that quiet time just after sunrise, when your parents were still asleep? You'd wake up early, maybe pour yourself a bowl of cereal, turn on the tube, and get lost in a universe of the implausible. From an interview with poet Billy Collins on American Public Media's Weekend America. Before he was twice appointed U.S. Poet Laureate, before he'd won awards and written volumes of poetry, Billy Collins was just a boy sitting in front of a black-and-white TV.
September 18th, 2008 by Bender Rodríguez
Most people know the slang definition of MILF, but how many have heard of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front?
September 14th, 2008 by Bender Rodríguez
Holy cow, I thought that Tina Fey was hot before, especially on "30 Rock", but now that I have seen her play Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin for the premiere of the Saturday Night Live's new season, I am delirious with visions of the two of them dancing in my head.
September 14th, 2008 by Bender Rodríguez
Finally, we have a high profile, although admittedly low profile in the grand scheme of things, discussion about the war crimes committed by Bush administration officials.
September 11th, 2008 by Bender Rodríguez
A short animated film about the feedback loops likely to lead to catastrophic climate change, by Leo Murray.
September 9th, 2008 by Bender Rodríguez
What Mark Pendl told me so very long ago
September 8th, 2008 by Bender Rodríguez
Aaron Sorkin wrote some poignant prose for the film "The American President", the sentiment of which rings ever so true in this election year.
September 5th, 2008 by Bender Rodríguez
The BBC4 tells the story of the LHC at CERN through the narration of one of its research scientist and particle physicist, Brian Cox
"The doctrine of the material efficacy of prayer reduces the Creator to a cosmic bellhop of a not very bright or reliable kind."
Herbert J. Muller