Sharon Stone has lost her mind

Check out what happens when you let Sharon Stone have the mike at an event for peace in Berlin. What the hell happens to people when they get money?

Calling Congress "cowards" doesn't do any good

I'm not a fan of Moveon.org. Their ads tend to be shrill and and play to the worst of any one issue. Their latest ad calls out GOP members of the Senate like this...

"They're willing to send tens of thousands more troops to face danger in Iraq, but they don't have the courage to face a vote."

This does nothing to solve the problem and makes life tougher for people like John Warner who are reminding senators of their obligation without pandering to one side or the other.

John Warner was fighting battles when my dad wasn't even born yet. Not sure I would lump him in with people who hid in the Guard or behind a student deferment.

NY Times parting from a paper version?

Ok. I admit I am a newspaper snob. I love reading great newspapers and read several each day on the Web. This is not to say I do not love the feeling of newsprint in my hands. It's just easier for me to read our two local papers as well as the Washington Post, New York Times, Columbus Dispatch and Detroit Free Press online since all but the first two would require me to spend more time in a 7-11 or Barnes and Noble than I want to.

Now Il Haaretz has an interview with Arthur Sulzberger who heads the family which owns the Times talking about the future of newspapers.

Check these quotes.

"I really don't know whether we'll be printing the Times in five years, and you know what? I don't care either," he says.

Sulzberger is focusing on how to best manage the transition from print to Internet, something it already does pretty well towards replicating the experience.

"The Internet is a wonderful place to be, and we're leading there," he points out.

The Times, in fact, has doubled its online readership to 1.5 million a day to go along with its 1.1 million subscribers for the print edition.

Sulzberger says the New York Times is on a journey that will conclude the day the company decides to stop printing the paper. That will mark the end of the transition.

Read the whole article at http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/822775.html

My buddy Mair has launched her new blog

One of my best buddies Mair Downing has posted a fairly gut-wrenching discussion on what's it like to be a Duke fan in an era when things aren't always going so great for Coach K and his Krazies.

Worth a read and tell her I sent you :>

http://rantandrave.mytimesdispatch.com/index.php

Loving this ape

Ok. The Super Bowl is over. The game was crap because we had people not realizing torrential rain does occasionally fall on Miami. Sorry for all of you CSI: Miami viewers. This is one of the better ads which has now shown up on YouTube.

PhD Phooey!

Often I get frustrated when folks don't realize not every military man or woman doesn't meet all the stereotypes.

There is an article that ran in this morning's Washington Post discussing General Petraeus, himself a holder of a PhD from Princeton, who has went out and found the smartest officers he can to help him in Iraq. This quote especially made my head spin:

They are smart colonels who have been noticed by Petraeus, and who make up one of the most selective clubs in the world: military officers with doctorates from top-flight universities and combat experience in Iraq.

Ok... this article was written by Tom Ricks, one of the more savvy journalists out there, and basically makes it sound like these guys are freaks. If anything, they are the ones who might just save this damn mess the neo-cons have dumped us in. They also represent the last great hope for the American experiment: smart people who want to serve their fellow man and their government.

You can read the fulll article at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/04/AR2007020401196.html