What is up, Fox? Is the glow off the neo-con Queen Esther?

Pearl Jr’s documentary The Trial and Triumph of the King of Pop is not a traditional documentary, rather a compilation of clips from her public access program TRUTalk which reached over a million homes. Thanks to her media savvy, Pearl was able to secure press credentials for Michael Jackson’s 2005 trial on charges child molestation, which she attended daily.

In a major restructuring, cable channel Current TV--co-founded by Al Gore--has laid off 80 employees, about 25% of its staff. Most of the axed were based in the Los Angeles office, affecting in-house production and striking a yet another blow to the city's already suffering entertainment industry. The original programs "Current Tonight," "Current Takeover" and "Current Exposed" have been canceled and David Neumann, the head of programming was fired. About 300 employees total remain.

While the Quakers at Sidwell Friends had one response to Westboro Bapstist Church's two day protest, earlier this year these frat boys at University of Chicago had another; both were very appropriate and grounded in each group's philosophy.

My mother was diagnosed with esophogeal cancer after spending months in the hospital with complications, including an antibiotic resistant bacterial infection and a feeding tube, after a series of operations. Back surgery for which she was not really a good candidate--osteoporosis, 50 years of smoking, decades of heavy drinking were all overlooked or downplayed--left her pretty much home bound and in as much pain as prior to surgery, just different pain, a year of her life lost to hospitals where more than once she was left tied to the bed moaning and thrashing from a urinary track infection until I got there and raised hell, where a rapid intubation (performed by a doctor in a hurry to get to Nancy Reagan's house and check on her broken hip) caused Mom to be unable to swallow correctly for a month; ICUs; nursing facilities, and home health care.

It’s a tight race for civil equality in Maine. Per the Bangor Daily News, at 10:21 Maine time, 172 of 605 (28 %) of precincts have been reported.

This film and its discussion deal with animal experimentation. If you find the subject offensive, and cannot hold back your distaste, you may wish to join us next week for Money Driven Medicine, a documentary about the health care industry. If you wish to civilly discuss the bioethics involved in brain transplants, please join us.

I love the kittehs! I have always had at least one cat, sometimes as many three, ever since I was a toddler and uh one of the main reasons I fell in love with my ex-husband was that he had always had cats. Finally a man not “allergic” to cats, who loved them! But though for me there is a limit to the number of cats I can love and care for in a responsible manner, I have a great deal of sympathy and empathy for “crazy cat ladies,” women to horde cats.

Musicians, including R.E.M and Pearl Jam, launched a formal protest of the use of music used in conjunction with torture that took place at Guantanamo Bay and other facilities. And they’ve announced they are supporting an effort seeking the declassification of all secret government records pertaining to how music was utilized as an interrogation device. Both Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine, and Nine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor (the music of Rage Against the Machine and NIN is believed to have been used as part the torture of detainees) are involved in the campaign.

There are just too many people on earth, and sadly contraception is out of reach of the millions of women who want it. Our food and water supplies are dwindling, and carbon emissions increasing.