Wednesday, November 02, 2005
go to walmart to watch pbs whilst literally reading twain and listening to Olga Sarantos
"Walmart has what?," you ask. A war room. "A what?" A war room. Walmart hired presidential advisors from Ronald Reagon's and Bill Clinton's administrations to improve its image in reponse to critics who believe that it treats its employees poorly. One of those critics is Robert Greenwald, director of the upcoming documentary "Walmart: The high cost of a low price."
The NYT goes apeshit over Lisa Randall, a physics professor at Harvard who has come up with a plausible theory on why gravity is such a relatively weak force and that an infinite dimension of space could be sitting next to us undetected.
Females may have a greater sense of pain because they have more nerve fibers.
PBS is wonderful. They are currently showing a 3-part, 6 hour Rx for survival series, and you absolutely should be watching. It is as compelling as anything else on television.
Doris Kearns Goodwin was on "The Daily Show" last week, and I learned that she has written a new book about the one and only President Abraham Lincoln and rhymes and lyricizes about his political genius. The New Yorker has a review.
The Go! Team profile in the NYT.
The Fiery Furnaces and their grandmother.
Ricky Gervais' next project will be a film collaboration with Christopher Guest.
Tons of short stories online.
Slate talks about the word "literally", and how it has been improperly used by everyone from Mark Twain to F. Scott Fitzgerald.
The NYT goes apeshit over Lisa Randall, a physics professor at Harvard who has come up with a plausible theory on why gravity is such a relatively weak force and that an infinite dimension of space could be sitting next to us undetected.
Females may have a greater sense of pain because they have more nerve fibers.
PBS is wonderful. They are currently showing a 3-part, 6 hour Rx for survival series, and you absolutely should be watching. It is as compelling as anything else on television.
Doris Kearns Goodwin was on "The Daily Show" last week, and I learned that she has written a new book about the one and only President Abraham Lincoln and rhymes and lyricizes about his political genius. The New Yorker has a review.
The Go! Team profile in the NYT.
The Fiery Furnaces and their grandmother.
Ricky Gervais' next project will be a film collaboration with Christopher Guest.
Tons of short stories online.
Slate talks about the word "literally", and how it has been improperly used by everyone from Mark Twain to F. Scott Fitzgerald.
