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    FDA Denies Naming Veterinarian to Office of Woman’s Health

    FDA Rethinks Women's Chief Toigo Is Acting Head; Agency Denies Naming Veterinary Official By Marc Kaufman Washington Post Staff Writer September 20, 2005 One week ago, the Office of Women's Health of the Food and Drug Administration sent an e-mail notice to women's groups and others...
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    No Direction Home: Bob Dylan

    Advertisment No Direction Home: Bob Dylan A Martin Scorsese Picture Premiering September 26 – 27 2005 Martin Scorsese directed this feature-length film biography of Bob Dylan which will air on PBS's American Masters Series September 26-27 and in the UK on BBC's Arena Series September 26...
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    The Web In Katrina's Aftermath.

    KATRINA'S AFTERMATH Web Proves Its Capacity to Help in Time of Need By Chris Gaither and Matea Gold, Times Staff Writers September 10, 2005 Thirty years after the Internet was created as a communications system of last resort, the network fulfilled its mission during the aftermath of...
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    Jon's Back!

    The Daily Show Jon Stewart & Ed Helms discuss presidential response to Hurricane Katrina.
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    Did New Orleans Catastrophe Have to Happen?

    Did New Orleans Catastrophe Have to Happen? 'Times-Picayune' Had Repeatedly Raised Federal Spending Issues By Will Bunch Published: August 31, 2005 PHILADELPHIA Even though Hurricane Katrina has moved well north of the city, the waters may still keep rising in New Orleans. That's because Lake...
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    CFIA issues baby food alert

    CFIA issues baby food alert CBC News Last Updated Thu, 11 Aug 2005 09:46:09 EDT Nestlé is voluntarily pulling one batch of a popular baby food from the shelves after the Canadian Food Inspection Agency issued a food alert. Consumers should not use one production lot of Nestlé Baby Rice...
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    What are American values?

    This post isn’t exactly politics, and it certainly isn’t war, but a reasoned examination of American Values from 1961. (When we had barely begun anguishing over what a uniquely Canadian character was.) As a political football, American values have been getting a lot of play in the last...
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    Sorry, Norma Jean.

    Forty-three years after her death on August 5th, 1962, district attorney, John Miner, released his extensive transcripts of conversations between Marilyn Monroe and her psychiatrist, Dr. Ralph Greenson. During investigations into Monroe’s death Dr. Greenson had agreed to play the tapes for...
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    Jon Stewart vs. Tucker Carlson: The rematch.

    Is MSNBC still unavailable in Canada? I wouldn’t notice. Guess I will have to wait it out until the first blogger posts a link at 11:30:01 PM For any who missed, or wish to re-experience, the original fracas, here is the link to Stewart-Carlson One.
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    Robert Novak Has Lexical Malfunction.

    During a live broadcast of Inside Politics, Robert Novak complained that like Katherine Harrison, liberal newspapers had been 'colorizing' his photograph, and then in an unheated debate with James Carvell called Carvell’s remark “Bullshit” and left the studio. Moments later,CNN spokeswoman...
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    Name That MacGuffin!

    NAME THAT MACGUFFIN! Sir Alfred Hitchcock had a name for those invaluable articles, earth shaking treaties, secret formulas, missing bombs, et cetera, that loom large in action films; yet their only function is as a device to get the characters interacting, and to keep them moving until the...