Author: lapin

Bill Nye (who started his illustrious TV career on a Seattle produced show called Almost Live) has a new television series that is broadcast on PBS stations through American Public Television (PBS won’t distribute his...

The chairman of Toyota Motor Corporation is so concerned with the state of the American auto industry that he is recommending Japanese auto companies increase prices for their products: Toyota Motor Corp. Chairman Hiroshi Okuda...

[editor’s note, by lapin] BooMan has graciously invited me to post on the front page. Thank you for this privilege. Jack Abramoff dangled a carrot to Indian tribes in exchange for contributions to a charity he set up, the...

If you’ve read any diaries I’ve written over at dKos, you may know that I have a few local talk radio hosts that I torture (merely in the rhetorical sense).  When they start spouting the talking points on...

cross posted at dKos May this be the final nail in the coffin of abstinence only programs: Teens who pledge to remain virgins until marriage are more likely to take chances with other kinds of sex that increase the risk of...