It’s an odd thing to watch those once popular in media shuffle off the television and radio coils, having amassed a truly king’s ransom and ‘be away’ then, but almost never to surface again with the ferocity and followers they once did. It would appear what we say in publishing is true in other professional arenas also: it’s not just talent; everyone has talent. It’s luck as much as talent. And a drive to be in the chartreuse light, also. And a commitment to earning...

Elizabeth, an Incomparable of Her Time has passed away: Here’s what you won’t read in the headlines which are often vulgar, focused on foibles, overlooking the worth of not only this woman, any woman. You’ll hear about her peccadilloes, her many marriage and other chisme, gossip. But you wont hear she was a child actress who never had a childhood. You wont hear that she sought forever the father she never had. You wont hear how she had to put up with studio heads and producers...

CORRECTION: for a short period of time, this article erroneously carried the word ‘nuclear’ in the headline, when the copy within the article clearly said ‘hydrogen.’ This has been corrected immediately. Full apology from me for this error. Here follows the rest of the original article. “… officials say they believe a hydrogen explosion occurred at the nuclear plant early Monday morning ,” AP (It is still Sunday for two more hours here in the USA) see WaPo front page here and full article...

Some have written today about a disgraced former counsel, named Kevin Maher, who is alleged to have made some beastly comments about Asians in Okinawa and Japan. Maher was then also removed from shuffling forward incoming stories for the Japan desk for the State Department, apparently. That this story runs today merits a response, I think. Just this: There is massive regard carried by the masses of Americans toward and with the Japanese people… and this regard is returned to us a millionfold...

UPDATE: 4:00 pm MST Friday: The devastation in Japan is massive as is loss of life. Watching the great black debris-tsunami wave of water speed overland like the 1950′s movie, The Blob, which portrayed a huge rolling mass that ate everything in its path… that was this. No one in its path could survive long without higher ground. The farm plains of Japan where the waves hit are flat. Flat flat. There will be need for food as this would be like polluting a significant heart of ‘the...

MADISON, Wisconsin Republicans without quorum and without debate seem to have invented a way to pass a bill without most of the Congress present. After weeks of huge demonstrations, after threats of various kinds from the Governor… and a back and forth with lots of talking heads to the point of not knowing which side was speaking any longer… and after Dems leaving the state until a compromise that was real could be hammered out… after all this… and more the Rebubs convened...

Where I grew up on the Great Lakes, lamprey eels attached themselves with rows of teeth angled backward toward their gullets… attached themselves to large fish, feeding off their innards for days or weeks until the fish died. Then on to the next big fish. Most of the world’s four-wheeled and 6 and 8 and 10 and 18 wheels’ nations are the big fish. The Lampreys? You decide. As I understand it– and trying to pry out the actual facts is like playing ‘the three walnut shells...

Her name is Marizela “Mei” Perez. So young. Gone since Saturday, last seen on surveillance cameras in early afternoon. Numbers to contact directly with tips are below. As a PI, I hope the lead investigator does not rule out following leads for foul play even though Marizela has been on anti-depressants for a long time. Though the ‘usual profile’ for persons who go missing when they are teens or young adults and/or on medication for mental or mood variances is to think ‘run...

This young woman is a U of Washington student. Her name is Marizela Perez (nickname Em Em) and she has been missing since Saturday. She has an asymetrical hair cut (longer on one side than the other)… and a significant tattoo on her left inner arm with the words ‘lahat ay magiging maayos’ (Tagalog for “All will be well.”) She is said to be on the ‘skinny side’… see other photo of her below. According to her cousin Michelle Malkin, Marizela was “last seen wearing...

Jerry Remmers was like a brother to many of us at TMV. A rare thing amongst former strangers. It went something like this… As a woman in the ‘biz’ so to speak, having the protective wing of brothers and sisters is a blessing, and I mean it. It is a rare and beautiful thing. The tiny group who play wingman and wingwoman to my work at TMV before and after it sees the light of day, are beyond meaningful to me… and Jer was one. Quick with a compliment, fast to note heart in myself...

To all earthquake survivors of Christchurch and surrounds, hang in there… “we are sending in the linebacker angels”… Below this is the Letter to New Zealanders containing Post-Trauma Recovery Tenets… and here is this little prayer for your best possible health and strength from someone you know well… the kiwi. The Kiwi, which is a New Zealand bird of time-honored rank, is endangered, like the souls of humans often are, from overgrown predators, and yet… HEART...

militaryphotos.net/ titled there as Egyptian special forcesThroughout history, dictators have had a hard time of it in at least one way: There is no security for them, no peaceful sleep really, no true protection other than iron-fist reaction to uprisings. A dictator traditionally, as in the case of the Romanovs, Joseph Stalin, various European Emperors, and others who left the populace to rot, had to fear – the people they set their military presence down upon, (no mother will ever forget...

The first breakdown for any army is communication. As I understand it, many of Egypt’s army forces were in cell phone and internet connection with headquarters and one another. How orders are now dissemanated at the same time and to all units is no longer tidy and dependable. This can cause disorder amongst units and their commanders, as each group does only what it sees fit at the moment and in the locale they are occupying, rather than a much larger picture seen and analyzed by central...

I’ve often wondered what Nicolae Ceausescu , the former and cruel dictator of Romania who enslaved the Romanian and Swabian people post-Uncle Joe (Stalin), literally selling human beings as slaves to other countries, thought when he came to his balcony one day, and saw the streets crammed with demonstrators demanding his resignation. And more. Much more. Ceausescu too, like Mubarak, tried to mollify the protesters by addressing them publicly, listing all the dictators’ good deeds, leaving...

Egyptian people in prayer on bridge today; On the right armored policemen, on the left: The people. High school students on way home 1963 USA

I collect photographs of moments that I think ought never perish from memory… for the sake of Peace, and for the sake of remembering to think ten times before running the young to war… again… from any side. When I first saw this photo, traced the hands of the wounded Marine trailing in the water, touched the bodies of the other Marines, wounded and dying on the barge pulled by brothers waist deep in the water… I thought… This too, ought be a monument in Washington, close...

Keith Olbermann announced Friday night on his “Countdown” show, that this would be his last televised show for MSNBC. UPDATE Saturday January 22, 2011. Word from cable channel pundits and hosts speculate that Mr. Olbermann had been in process of a buyout of his contract… whether jumping or being pushed… perhaps both. There appears to be much talk about him signing what sounds like a non-compete clause of sorts, saying he will not appear in a hosting context elsewhere. That...

These lists below come from Mr. Loughner’s myspace site which has suddenly been shut down, and from his youtube channel which at the moment is still up and lists 4 films uploaded by Mr. Loughner. “Schools: I attended school: Thornydale elementary, Tortolita Middle School, Mountain View Highschool, Northwest Aztec Middle College, and Pima Community College. Interests: My favorite interest was reading, and I studied grammar. Conscience dreams were a great study in college! Movies:(*My...

According to reporters at the scene in Arizona, a 21 year old male is being held in custody. The scene was a sunny ‘street corner Congress,’ held in the shopping center lot in front of the local Safeway grocery store about 3 miles outside Tucson. The shooter’s bullets penetrated into the store. There were at least 12 persons shot and they were airlifted by Life Flight helicopters. Mark Kelly is the husband of Congresswoman Giffords. He is an astronaut, and was this morning on his...

Seemingly pounding on one another: one by dissing, the other by bypassing… thus go the NYT and Assange. Remember Alfred E Neuman and Mad magazine’s Spy vs Spy, where the white robed spy and the black robed spy were always trying to outdo each other …and would wind up blowing themselves up instead of each other… most every time? No one ever quite won for long. That. The NYT apparently has to aggregate their profile of Assange in a new article, as he appears to not want to...

Peace: the best definition of Peace I know is Live and Let Live. For, as we say, in this time of year…the Child of Love is born on a silent night, a holy night… a Child of Love who is the Master of Peace, who ever teaches those who ‘are as lonely as an owl on the ridgepole’ with no one to speak to. We are learning too, via science, what the old women have always said is so: Peacefulness, is also a powerful medicine under our control, in order for the health of heart and circulatory...

Blessed holidays… the daylight will soon stay longer… the pelts on the horses grow thicker now… the rabbits are wearing their white fur coats… the red tails can be more easily seen against the snow… the red foxes show themselves in daylight trotting across the open fields, the night sky is deep blue velvet, there are sheep in the shelter side of the wind, and the ranchers are thinking now about lambing season… and we are alive. In the midst of so much flurry...

Dear All: Dr E here, in behalf of the following message from our coblogger, Jerry Remmer, who as you know is fighting a battle but whose humor and intense interest in the news is running strong. Dear Dr. E., I am too weak to file posts but hope to do so starting this weekend. This is no admonition nor criticism, but I was shocked NO ONE on TMV filed a story on Obama’s press conference. I think he was presidential, defiant, and deferential to reality… in regards to the pending deal...

UPDATE Tues Dev 7, 2010 2:11 Mountain Time. London judge refuses bail to Assange, saying that he has frail ties to British residency, has much money accessible, and is thereby too easily able to not re-appear in court. Mr. Assange has thus been sent to an undisclosed jail location (as is usual in London) until further hearing in a week or so. His charges were defended by his lawyer, re alledgedly raping a woman while she was asleep, not using condom, forcing another woman into a sex act and also...

Hello there, Dr. E. here. Our commenters at TMV occasionally leave long and interesting comments that read like a good opinion piece in and of themselves. This is one by commenter Leonidas that offers a thoughtful viewpoint. Most of the news media seems to be losing their minds over Wikileaks without actually reading these essays by Leonidas An interesting read on [the matter of] Wikileaks [here]: “To radically shift regime behavior we must think clearly and boldly for if we have learned anything,...