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Somehow I missed that Rich Weiner, the Executive Director at the Refuge, was on WGN News. Dina Baird interviewed him. And it seems that Marley the Macaw pooped on her. http://wgntv.vid.trb.com/player/PaperVideoTest.swf
Somewhere underneath all of the coverage of Senator Kennedy’s death are the notices that writer/celebrity chronicler/victim’s advocate Dominick Dunne died this week. Dunne is the reason I started subscribing to Vanity Fair (although I still haven’t caught up from all of my back issues… Continue Reading “Dominick Dunne”
Slate.com wrote about the books the President took on vacation with him this week. The purpose was to over-analyze the selections and debate on what he would or would not finish. And what does it mean that all of these books are written by… Continue Reading “The President’s Reading List”
Now this is interesting. MSN Money has an article (well, it is really a blog post) trying to determine why some people earn $30,000 and some earn $100,000: “Many commenters noted that, from their experience, high-income earners generally exhibit several of the following traits:They… Continue Reading “The Difference”
Jason Whitlock was talking about Favre in his Fox Sports column today. He says that “Britney” Favre (he didn’t coin it) is our own fault because we keep clicking on his name. Yeah. Sorry about that. But this was his higher message: “You blame… Continue Reading “The Circus”
Good Morning America had a story this morning about a new therapy dog program: Reading to a dog. The idea is that children learn to read best when practicing aloud. Many are loathe to practice aloud in the classroom out of fear of being… Continue Reading “Reading Education Therapy Dogs”
USA Today has been running a column called “Pet Talk” that I sometimes read and sometimes skip, depending on the subject matter. Yesterday they ran a story about how Petfinder.com is making a push to highlight some “less adoptable” animals. “Adopt a Less Adoptable… Continue Reading “Adopt a Less Adoptable Pet Day”
I’ve been paying attention to the Eunice Shriver story over the last couple of days, so I was not surprised to read of her death this morning. It still made me sad. Eunice rocked for several reasons: A woman graduating from college in the… Continue Reading “Mrs. Shriver”
It must have been on Academic Earth that I first heard it: The speaker (presumably David Blight in the Civil War course) was talking about how after Ken Burns’ documentary on The Civil War, women were all swooning over the historian Shelby Foote. My… Continue Reading “The Shelby Foote Effect”
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