Pajamas Media
Archive for February, 2007
Sanity Squad: Movies, Culture and Kids
The gowns of Dreamgirls
The Sixties were a turning point for film and American culture, and with Oscar night still in the rearview the Squad discusses another. This week's episode focuses on the psychological and sociological effects of abortion on demand; and the influence of the movies on politics, sexuality, and our perception of history.
Al Gore’s Nashville House
By now many Americans are aware that "In total, Gore paid nearly $30,000 in combined electricity and natural gas bills for his Nashville estate in 2006." (TCPR)
But what does all that money power? What does a house that eats that much energy look like?
Now, via a PJM correspondent, Pajamas Media presents a few candid shots of Al Gore's "carbon neutral" home in Nashville in the exclusive enclave known as:
[Paris Blues] Fran√ßois Bayrou, French Insiders’ Outsider
François Bayrou, Serious French Presidential Candidate
or Refrigerator Magnet?
You Say You Can't Tell the Players in the French Elections without a Scorecard? Imagine If You Were French. Nidra Poller Explains It All for You.
by Nidra Poller, PJM Editor, Paris
Critiquing the Critics: The Bad $200 Beef Platter vs. the $40,000 NYT Ad
"Whenever there's a suit of armor at the head of my table,... or a waiter who blindfolds me in order that I can 'better experience the brûlée,' the meal is pretty much guaranteed to stink."
by Nancy Rommelmann
Presidential Straw Poll 2008 – Week 6
The sixth week of the PAJAMAS MEDIA PRESIDENTIAL STRAW POLL has officially begun. Bill Richardson and Rudy Giuliani were winners in the fifth week with 60,000 votes now cast. A REMINDER to all blogs and websites:We now offer a voting widget for your site. By placing this widget on your blog or website, your site can become a precinct or polling place just as in an official election. Readers will be able to vote weekly through your site and compare the voting results from that site to the total and to other individual sites. We hope that websites allied with all parts of the political spectrum will participate in this exercise in online democracy. The more who join with us, the more statistically reliable the poll is likely to be. The widget (with tech support) is available for easy installation here. Just follow the instructions at the link.
The Cool Water of the Koran (Part II)
"Though all the trees in the earth were pens, and the sea and the seven seas after it were to replenish them, yet would the Words of God not be spent." -- Koran (31:27)b
This is the second Letter on Islam written in response to a non-Muslim writer:"The Koran is to Muslims what Jesus is to Christians."
by Salim Mansur
Blog Week in Review: Embrace the Suck
In a role reversal this week longtime producer Ed Driscoll interviews longtime host Austin Bay about his new pamphlet on "mil-speak" Embrace the Suck, and the blending of what he describes as his vocation and avocation. Ed also talks to Pamphleteer Press publisher Adam Bellow about the revival of the format and how he sees it evolving in the future. Brought to you by Volvo USA.
Operation Baghdad Enters Week Two
Iraqi policeman directing traffic at a vehicle checkpoint in Baghdad
"It's been less than two weeks since the Baghdad operation was officially launched. This period, though short, has been full of events, both good and bad."
PJM Baghdad editor Mohammed Fadhil reports.
The Pajamas Weekend Review
The best of the week @ Pajamas:
[Paris Blues] Underreported, underattended, overrated, and underplayed. From Nidra Poller
Baghdad Today: A Report from the City – Mohammed Fadhil with an early report on the surge.
Baghdad Dispatch: Still Hope After Sunday’s Bombs – More from Mohammed from the heart of Baghdad.
The Glenn and Helen Show – Claire and Mischa Berlinski on Two New Novels
Tofurky and Quorn and Sauerkraut Oh My – or- “A Teen-Age Vegan In the House” – From Nancy Rommelmann
Power, Faith, and Fantasy in the Middle East – Michael Totten interviews historian Michael Oren on US involvement in the Middle East throughout history.
Prime Minister Prodi’s Fall: Politics as Usual in Italy – Mario Sechi
QUAGMIRE! – “We were – neck deep in the Big Muddy/And the big fool said to push on.” – Jules Crittenden
Pakistan’s Northwest Frontier: The New al-Qaeda State within a State
Can the latter-day Taliban be charmed? A cartoon in a Pakistani weekly shows a snake from Afghanistan baring its fangs in Pakistan's North-West Frontier Province.
by PJM Editor Richard Fernandez, Sydney
