2008 Woodie Awards
Vacations transform almost everyone into tourists. Many flock to places like the Statue of Liberty, the Eiffel Tower and the Great Wall of China. Others embark on trips to cemeteries, battlefields and concentration camps as well as disaster, genocide and assassination sites in a growing phenomenon known as "grief tourism. (0) comments
I've always thought of myself as a pretty independent person. I mean, I'm almost 30 and I haven't died yet, so there's a plus. But I have recently realized that maybe I wasn't as independent as I thought I was. I went from living at home to living with roommates to living with a boyfriend. (2) comments
Get ready for a double take. Major League Baseball announced Tuesday that it will install instant replay systems tomorrow in ballparks in Anaheim, Chicago and Oakland, making the dinosaur of American sports the last of the Big Four to institute an official video replay system. (0) comments
Smart politician, that Barack Obama, giving something the old, white Democrats can relate to in a 66-year-old, experienced senator, Joe Biden, a "lunch-bucket Democrat," in the words of New York Times columnist David Brooks. I'm happy with the decision, not because Biden particularly thrilled me, from what I know about him anyways. (0) comments
