Michael Parker's JournalCurrent and Historical Perspectives on Politics, Ethics, Religion, Film, and LifeHelen Thomas On the Administration and Press Corp- June 29, 2007 Salon blogger and former constitutional law litigator Glenn Greenwald posted his exclusive interview with Helen Thomas, the oldest member of the White House Press Corp. The questions are exceptional, as are Thomas&146; answers and insights. One of today&146;s must reads! Consider this excerpt regarding the secrecy of this Administration: I did think that tough questions were always very important. With Kennedy, we knew he enjoyed the banter with the press, and he had the first live televised...http://blogs.salon.com/0002090/2007/06/28.html#a931 Introducing Stormbrain- June 28, 2007 My friend Shawn Hammond has recently launched his editing and writing business, stormbrain. His editing, writing, and proofing services incorporate research and consultation documentation; marketing materials; magazine articles (including features, profiles, how-tos, and reviews); books; online content; user guides; and any other documentation that requires copy. Having known Shawn for over ten years, I wanted to do something that 1) would acknowledge this...http://blogs.salon.com/0002090/2007/06/27.html#a930 Ta Da- June 15, 2007 Permalink macro has been fixed! To fix, I accessed another active Salon Blog, Dave Pollard's fine How To Save the World, right-clicked on his "permalink" image, and selected Save As.... to save it to my desktop. Dave kept the same file name as the macro template so that when I copied the file into my imagessalon folder and posted, RadioLand recognized it and displayed it, accordingly. Note to self: Don't go deletin' system files, even if you think they aren't being used....http://blogs.salon.com/0002090/2007/06/14.html#a929 Macro Problems- June 15, 2007 I recently exceeded my maximum amount of free disk space with Salon Blogs (40 mb). So I started eliminating old images that I've used or intended on using. IN the process, I deleted the "permalink" image, which resulted in the unsightly macro error you see in the datetime stamp and comments line at the end of each post. Tonight, I'm troubleshooting and trying to make things right with the blog again. Have you ever fiddled with something, only to break it "Me....http://blogs.salon.com/0002090/2007/06/14.html#a928 Foreign Policy Off Track- June 14, 2007 One of the ministers with whom I met, who had supported the invasion of Iraq and had been an admirer of outgoing British Prime Minister Tony Blair's, ruefully cited Blair's remark about Iraq at his joint press conference with Bush on May 17 at the White House: "This is a fight we cannot afford to lose." "Cannot Cannot lose" mocked the minister. "Should not have lost." High officials of European governments describe U.S. influence as squandered and swiftly eroding (one minister went down a...http://blogs.salon.com/0002090/2007/06/13.html#a927 YouTube's Esmee Denters Gets Recording Contract With JT's New Label- June 8, 2007 Throw this into the category of guilty pleasures-- POP music, which I have always enjoyed and very recently, as of today, have been teased about. (Thank you, Ace!) And that's perfectly all right. Really. No. Really. Last week, Justin Timberlake announced he created a new recording label, Tennman Records. Today, he announced his first recording contract is going to the YouTube phenomenon Esmee Denters, from Holland. Her covers of hit songs, in which she&146;s been recording in her own...http://blogs.salon.com/0002090/2007/06/07.html#a926 On Back Problems and Aging: Unkind Epiphany- June 6, 2007 My friend Shawn sent a link to Gary Kamiya&146;s extraordinarily beautiful composition "I'm younger than that now," published by Salon, about that epiphany we all experience that we are over the hill! I was very moved by it. (Thanks again Shawn for sharing it with me.) I have been facing this very harsh junction in the road of life, because of my health. Tonight, I had an appointment with the neurosurgeon. While I received good news&150;that indeed the hemangioma on my L2 vertebrae showed...http://blogs.salon.com/0002090/2007/06/05.html#a925 |