Entertainment Weekly gets a preview look at Daredevil, which includes an explanation of how the movie begins, in case you’re spoiler-conscious.
Month: July 2002
Sinking deeper.
As Worldcom execs take the fifth and both Congress and the Dubya administration prep for damage control (for the latter, in a Wall Street speech tomorrow,) White House strategists look desperately for a way to avoid being hoisted by their own petard. Says Dubya of his Vice-President, who’s in deep with the Halliburton scandal: “There are good actors and there are bad actors; he’s one of the good guys.” May work for terrorists, George…doesn’t work so well for executive profiteers.
Corporate Finance Reform.
Meanwhile, John McCain weighs in on the corporate scandals and calls for the resignation of SEC Chairman (Dubya flunky) Robert Pitt. (Via the swankily redesigned Medley.)
Atomic Archives.
Over the weekend, I fixed some problems with both the MT archives and the Atomz search box. Both are working now, in case you were looking for something recently and couldn’t find it.
Hitting .333.
Frank Rich weighs in with another discerning op-ed on Enrongate, in which he notes that the Bush administration has significant ties to FIVE of the companies currently under scrutiny – Enron, Halliburton, Andersen, KMPG and Merrill Lynch (which is why, of course, Dubya keeps talking about WorldCom.)
Black Helm Down.
The One Ring posts some new info on TTT that includes some considerable spoilers, even for people who’ve read the books.
Now you’ve done it.
You’ve gone and ticked off Ralph. Nader calls for a probe into Dubya’s Harken stock dump.
A Perfect Elevensies Treat.
One cake to rule them all. (Via Lots of Co. and Mermaniac.)
He Blinded Me With Science.
Mathematics professor Jordan Ellenberg explains why the media is so taken with Stephen Wolfram’s recent tome.
Fighting for Forgiveness.
In an inspiring condemnation of the death penalty, Ross Byrd, the son of James Byrd Jr., struggles to save the life of the white supremacist who dragged his father to death.