A nice plate of hot curry can be one of the joys of living with its enticing, enchanting, almost addicting flavor. If you like it extra spicy, it’s almost like a meditation as you feel it going down. The experience can stay with you for hours. Or it can hit you after a few hours (see photo)…. But now there’s a NEW twist: curry’s ingredients may help combat skin cancer: The compound that makes curry yellow could help fight skin cancer, U.S. researchers reported on Monday. They...

…at what will DEFINITELY become a DAILY MUST READ for bloggers and anyone interested in weblogs, The Hotline’s new Blogometer. William Beutler, The Hotline’s senior writer, explains it better than we can in his highly welcome email which read, in part: Since late March, the Blogometer has appeared as a section of the National Journal’s Hotline, a daily subscription-only Beltway tip sheet. Now we’re taking it to the web where it will be posted every weekday around noon...

Our periodic linkfest pointing you to interesting posts from DIFFERING viewpoints. These viewpoints do not necessarily reflect the opinions of The Moderate Voice or its co-bloggers. The Plaaaaaaaaaaame Game via Pennywit is MUST READING. A tiny taste 4 U: Plame-Plame bo-Blame Bonanana Fo-flame … Am I the only political blogger who doesn’t play the Plame game? When I glance at the prominent political bloggers, I think I am. The Plame game: If you’re liberal, you say Karl Rove, in...

NOTE: The Centrist Coalition has issued this statement on the upcoming Supreme Court nomination battles. The link to that is here but we’re running it in full to ensure readers check it out. TMV has been involved in some of its conferences and applauds its efforts to work for thoughtful discussion: The Supreme Court Vacancy The retirement of Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, and the upcoming confirmation of her successor, offer our political leaders an important opportunity to...

There are a lot of criticisms one could make of US policy. Misguided, for one. Arrogant, perhaps. One could plausibly argue that it is illegal under international law–I don’t really know the relevant rules and practices to be able to comment on that, really. However, while I understand the frustration of those who feel we are in a war because we were lied to, or because President Bush decided it would be a good way to boost his poll ratings or whatever, this was uncalled for (Balloon...

Two wrongs make a wholly incomprehensible position by the Family Research Council. Geez, you think they might have read this at least once, no?

See no evil, hear no evil, say no evil now seems to be the official White House position in the case of political bigwig Karl Rove’s alleged role in leaking a CIA agent’s identity — and President George Bush’s ringing comments a year ago about not tolerating leakers in his administration. Is this a controversy that will have what they call in the movie biz “legs?” Will it be for the press a news story gift that keeps on giving? It looks that way. And will it...

It stands to reason if all those TV shows featuring “makeovers” are big hits that McDonald’s might figure they’d have a hit if they redid the McDonald’s uniforms…or so it seems: In a move aimed at bringing some street cred to the Golden Arches, McDonald’s has contacted top hip-hop designers to beef up its uniforms in the United States. “We believe that restaurant employees are brand ambassadors, and this is a great opportunity to have crew uniforms...

Sometimes in a catastrophie such as last week’s London bombings when the event is over the agonies continue unabated, the grief is not even slightly eased by time — because some families have absolutely no closure. Just look at this list of the missing in London, and you see a cross-section of Great Britain….a group containing many ages, sexes and ethicities. All people who were simply living their lives on a “normal” day when they fell into the agenda of people who...

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Well, gee, we wake up in the morning, have our toast and tea and discover that our media does have some (limited) standards after all as we read Howard Kurtz: Despite the enormous hype surrounding Edward Klein’s scathing and hearsay-filled book about Hillary Rodham Clinton, the author has been ignored by all but two television talk shows. This collective cold shoulder hasn’t stopped “The Truth About Hillary” from hitting No. 2 yesterday on the coveted New York Times list....

Uh, oh, brace yourself for another possible firestorm over a politician’s comments. File this one in the When Will They Ever Learn Department: Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton went on the attack against President Bush in a speech Sunday, accusing him of damaging the economy by overspending while giving tax cuts to the rich. The Democrat from New York also accused Bush of depriving U.S. soldiers of equipment needed to fight the war in Iraq and cutting funding for scientific research during the inaugural...

You’ve probably wondered: how can some people who have cellphones behave as poorly as they do. The only good part of it, you may be thinking, is that it can’t get worse. It can. I experienced the sign of a new era in cell phone behaviour in Buellton, CA at a chain motel last week. It was early in the morning. I went down to get breakfast in the breakfast room. It was nearly packed. Suddenly, I heard a dial tone. Loud. People were talking quietly so it was hard to pinpoint who was...

“Do you know who I am? I’m Mo Green, I made my bones when you were going out with Cheerleaders.” — Mo Green in The Godfather. A new Newsweek story fingers Bush political right-hand-man Karl Rove as at least one person who told a reporter that Joe Wilson’s wife worked as a CIA agent. But now the prevailing question is: did Rove’s alleged role and the way he allegedly played it fall under the detailed law or will this be a case of something that may be politically...

Portland blogger Michael Totten has been checking the online forums at Portland’s Indymedia site and finds, well, what you’d expect from a group of people who still haven’t managed to blame 9/11 on terrorists. One insinuates Western governments did the attack to distract from the G8 discussions on African poverty. Various culprits – or alternately, profiteers – so far include Jews, Tony Blair, Halliburton, Bechtel, Coke, and even the media. Lou Dobbs’ seemingly...

People who enjoy writing comments promoting conspiracy theories on terrorist acts such as the bombings in London have been sent a pointed message — by the Daily Kos blog, an unabashedly Democratic blog that’s among the most popular on the Internet. It is: cool it. Your comments are not welcome here. Kos writes: Today I did something I’ve never done before (not even during the Fraudster mess), and wish I’d never had to do. I made a mass banning of people perpetuating a series...

The White House is at odds with the nation’s sheriffs over the U.S. top drug problem: the bigwigs in Washington insist it’s still marijuana while the sheriff’s insist it’s methamphetamine abuse. And this is no tiny deal: at issue is the whole thrust of the federal drug push, the use of tax dollars to combat drug use, the prioritization of the anti-drug battle. But it does now seem that the White House and many sheriffs throughout the country aren’t on the same wavelenth,...

So who’s the richest fictional character? We’ll give you a hint: He doesn’t dress like a bum, but he certainly doesn’t dress like a billionaire, either. And he doesn’t drive a Rolls, or at least not when he’s working. And you’d think he could afford razors, but he likes the shaggy look. Yes, you’ve guessed it. St. Nick is at the top of the list — The Forbes Fictional Fifteen list: 1. Santa Claus $ ∞ 2. Richie Rich 24.7 billion 3....

We’re now in a world war and the terrorist enemy wants to obliterate western civilization. That’s the message of Efraim Halevy, the former head of Mossad, the Israeli Secret Intelligence Service who until recently was head of the Israel National Security Council and national security adviser to the Israeli prime minister. In an interview with The Scotsman, Halvey, considered one of the world’s top terrorism experts said: “Thursday’s attacks on the London transport system...

The FDA has ordered the impotence drug Viagra and other erectile dysfunction drugs to carry a stiff warning about blindness: The Food and Drug Administration approved new labeling Friday to warn men about possible blindness from Pfizer Inc.’s Viagra and other drugs for erectile dysfunction. Cialis, sold by Eli Lilly & Co and Icos Corp. , and Levitra, co-promoted by GlaxoSmithKline and Bayer AG, will also carry new labels, the FDA said. Pfizer agreed last month to change the popular impotence...

NOTE: One in a while you read a post on a weblog that goes beyond “blogspeak” and predictable ideological discussion. Something that is so very much from the heart that it haunts you for days. It’s more than a post; it’s someone sharing something exceedingly special with readers all over the world. And it DESERVES more attention. So we’ve now created the occasional Shining Star Post to point you to some of these amazing pieces of personal writing. We urge all readers...

One of the most amazing aspects of the terrorism war and recent attack in London was the absolute lack of class shown by some people in the news and news personality biz — and the winner/loser in this category definitely is Fox News’ John Gibson. Callous and downright dumb statements were made even before all the body parts were picked off the streets in London by some people on the right and left who seemingly could not wait before politicizing the terrorist attack. The Guardian details...

Six-party talks are finally set to resume on North Korea’s nuclear program on July 25th in Beijing. Looks like it took some verbal backstepping on behalf of the US, but in the end it was worth it (and it’s also known as “diplomacy”, not exactly a bad word and preferable to nuclear-armed combat): The top envoys to the negotiations from the United States and North Korea — U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill and North Korean Vice Foreign Minister Kim Kye...

…at Galley of the Absurd if you love art and celebrity gossip. What more can we say than that you see when you click on the link? There are so many posts/art pieces here that we love that we’d do an injustice to the site by offering you just one, or doing it as a mere post. So we urge you to click on it ASAP. And get ready for fun. We guarentee you: Take A Peek and you’ll be taking a daily peek (as we will since we’re adding it to Other Voices on our blogroll, which we heavily...

And here it is for you: a living, breathing example of the “chilling effect.” We are shifting to new era involving leaked documents due to the jailing of New York Times reporter Judith Miller: a newspaper reports it’s holding back on publishing two stories: CHICAGO — Plain Dealer Editor Doug Clifton says the Cleveland daily is not reporting two major investigative stories of “profound importance” because they are based on illegally leaked documents — and...