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...Supreme Court prohibited the federal trial regarding Proposition 8, California's ban on same-sex marriage, from being filmed or broadcast on YouTube. But actor John Ainsworth and filmmaker John Ireland found a loophole. The duo, legally married to their respective husbands, found a mock courtroom at the University of Southern California, hired a group of actors and began re-enacting the proceedings on the basis of courtroom transcripts and firsthand accounts from journalists present at the trial. The episodes began airing online...
...with the Lancet's formal retraction of Wakefield's paper, the question is whether the vaccine theory of autism may finally be put to rest. But that seems unlikely. Since 1998, numerous studies have found no link between vaccines and autism, yet parents' fears have endured. Indeed, vaccination rates in the U.K., which dropped after the publication of Wakefield's paper, never fully rebounded, and measles cases later took off. The number of cases has also risen...
Carney just found out that she knows another Superficial buyer - her friend David Esquivel. Actually, Esquivel, 23, hates Montag but bought the album to review on his music blog, PopOnandOn.com However, he couldn't find anything on the album worth blogging about. Let me repeat that: He couldn't find anything worth blogging about...
What I learned from not listening to Superficial is that the nature of celebrity hasn't changed; celebrity is just more than ever its own industry. We've found a group of people who are hot, rich and narcissistic to entertain us with their lives and another group to entertain us with their work. Back when promotional outlets were limited to billboards and Johnny Carson, being a celebrity could move product. But now that there's an infinite number of ways for everybody to get your attention, celebrity cannot achieve much more than product awareness...
...protect the environment. And they eschew the inflammatory rhetoric of the tea parties and town halls. We don't even have a name for this kind of Republican. In the 1980s, we called them Gypsy Moths, after a pest prevalent in the Northeast. But this new strain is not found only in the Northeast, and it is not a pest. It represents the best home for a center-right politics of the future. (See pictures of Republican memorabilia...