WELL, OF COURSE: “The iPhone is definitely a sexy phone. It’s also the perfect vehicle for bringing mobile porn to Americans, according to adult content producers at the annual AVN convention in Las Vegas.”
Archive for 2008
January 12, 2008
AP TRIES TO REWRITE RATHERGATE HISTORY, leaving out the forged documents.
VOTE SUPPRESSION EFFORTS in Nevada?
“SORRY, BARACK. YOU’VE LOST IRAQ.”
THOUGHTS ON JOHN MCCAIN AND FREE SPEECH, from Roger Kimball.
PREVIEWING THE DETROIT AUTO SHOW: You can deliver my personalized Lamborghini any time now . . . .
BUSH IN KUWAIT. More here.
AN INTERVIEW with Marine Corps Commandant James Conway.
WILL BLU-RAY EARLY ADOPTERS GET SHAFTED? Hey, wait — that’s me!
A BIG CONSUMER ELECTRONICS SHOW WRAPUP. Plus, a Macworld preview. And a look at new attractions among cell phones.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Ann Althouse.
ASTEROID LIKELY TO MISS MARS after all. Well, it was always likely to miss, of course, but the risk has been revised downward tremendously.
ANOTHER MAJOR stem-cell advance.
HUMANITY’S Top 10 Existential Risks. We’re not talking Sartre here.
THIS SEEMS LIKE PROGRESS: Iraqi Lawmakers Pass Key Benchmark De-Baathification Law: “Iraq’s parliament adopted legislation Saturday on the reinstatement of thousands of former Baath party supporters to government jobs, a key benchmark sought by the United States as a step toward national reconciliation. The bill was approved by a unanimous show of hands on each of the law’s 30 clauses.”
UPDATE: More thoughts from Ed Morrissey.
SCHWARZENEGGER V. SPITZER on state funding for higher education.
RUDY GIULIANI responds to rumors about his finances.
IN 2006 EMI, the world’s fourth-biggest recorded-music company, invited some teenagers into its headquarters in London to talk to its top managers about their listening habits. At the end of the session the EMI bosses thanked them for their comments and told them to help themselves to a big pile of CDs sitting on a table. But none of the teens took any of the CDs, even though they were free. “That was the moment we realised the game was completely up,†says a person who was there.
Like I said.
APOLOGIZING TO Fred Thompson.