Accidental Blogger

A general interest blog

Category: Media & Weblogs

  • Among the current Democratic presidential candidates, John Edwards appears to be the favorite with a large section of the liberal blogosphere. Edwards, who is running a populist campaign about the "Two Americas," posed on the front yard of a damaged New Orleans home to announce his candidacy. He is catching the usual right wing flak…

  •                          Molly Ivins, the feisty political humorist and Texas tough lady died today after a long battle with cancer. Ivins, who gave George W. Bush the unforgettable nickname Shrub, was 62. Ivins’ specialty was speaking truth to power, never aiming her satire at the powerless. "The touble…

  • The recent story about the two kidnapped young boys rescued from the clutches of a pedophile caught the  attention of the entire nation. Ben Ownby and Shawn Hornbeck, both of Missouri, were found in an apartment belonging to Michael Devlin, a 41 year old pizza store manager.  It was the search for thirteen year old…

  • Forgot to put this up yesterday.  The Carnival of the Liberals # 30 is up at Shakespeare’s Sister. Please check it out.

  • Here are two brazen statements made by high profile public figures which illustrate that to become a successful right winger, one must eschew all sense of shame. Last Sunday on  60 Minutes (CBS), George W. Bush was interviewed by Scott Pelley. Here is one exchange that provides a glimpse into Bush’s unrepentant heart and arrogant…

  • Bora / Coturnix, Science Blogger at A Blog Around the Clock has done the phenomenal job of putting together an anthology of 50 best science blog posts for publication in book form. This may be the first time such an enterprise has been undertaken and successfully completed. It may also be an augury of things to…

  • I am years behind on my reading.  Currently I’m on a Dave Eggers kick–he is a very entertaining writer and can make the reader think if he wants to–and I just stumbled across this gem in "Your Mother and I" in How We Are Hungry: I guess a lot of what we did–what made so…