A ringtone is now #1 on the UK charts! What’s going on???
Check out the article
-Jean Chen

“Deep Throat”, at the ripe old age of 91, revealed his identity in Vanity Fair — read NY Times. Let the movie deals begin!

Check out this interview with Bono… very interesting. He has good things to say about Bush and Jesse Helms.
-Jean Chen

Warren Beatty speaks at the graduation ceremony of UC Berkeley’s Goldman School of Public Policy:
Click here for the transcript.
-Jean Chen

Tom DeLay is upset that an episode of “Law and Order” used his name. Hmm. Doesn’t he have bigger problems to worry about?
My favorite quote from the news article: Creator/executive producer Dick Wolf added: “But I do congratulate Congressman DeLay for switching the spotlight from his own problems to an episode of a television show.”
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The Food and Drug Administration, recently criticized in myriad ways for running a ship with no captain, no stern, no stanchion, has decided to turn its attention on sperm donations. On May 5th, CNN reported that the FDA was “about to implement new rules recommending that any man who has engaged in homosexual sex in [...]

Less talk, more Wookie!
- Jean Chen

http://www.boingboing.net/2005/05/13/liveblogging_la_star.html
It’s short, sweet and clever. Like Hunter S. Thompson’s “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas” only it’s Los Angeles, 2005, and the new narcotic is not acid but high-def filmmaking.
Sounds like cyberpunk, no?
Well, the funny thing is: it’s fact, not fiction. In the above blog entry by Xeni Jardin, we are treated to an unabashedly [...]

“If someone said he was the best African-American CEO, he would be miserable. He wants to be the best CEO.”
—Geoffrey Canada, on college friend
and American Express CEO Ken Chenault USA Today, April 25, 2005
When I first read that quote I was happy for Mr. Chenault, proud even. I’ve been a big fan of execs [...]

There are some fabulous things about the internet; you can look up any part of history you forgot, discover virtual images of the stars, talk to people on the other side of the world (or fence) about a range of topics, access music and art, be au current or de rigueur.
But there is a [...]

Spoiler alert: This is about pop, not politics. It’s too exhausting to continually plant sunflower seedlings one morning and then go out the next morning to see how many have been eaten by snails.
I heard a Pretenders song last week called Back on the Chain Gang. It’s not particularly catchy [...]

Gross!! I really hope this isn’t true! Larry Flynt is accusing UN ambassador nominee John Bolton of being a swinger! Eww. Can you imagine going to a party or club and having to see a naked John Bolton??!!
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Publisher Larry Flynt’s Questions Posed to State Department Regarding Corroborated Allegations that First Wife [...]

I know the article incited a riot which killed 17 people, but I think it’s disappointing that Newsweek retracted their piece which mentioned American interrogators flushing a Koran down the toilet. Since when did journalists cave in to political pressure?
- Jean Chen

There is some serious trouble happening in Kansas… for the past few years there has been a battle in the school board over whether or not evolution should be taught. And now, they are trying to redefine what science is.
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Intelligent design is just another strategy from conservative Christians to ban evolution. [...]

salon offers up a primer on the whole filibuster debate going on lately that helps explain the importance of a complicated-seeming process in easy-to-understand terms.
on an unrelated note, there’s also an interesting article in the environmental news mag grist about the african american activist who shunned cars and walked everywhere, *and* didn’t speak for 22 [...]