A Buyer’s Market

Update: Phil Rosenthal reports the Chicago Tribune doesn’t plan to sell ads on the front of its main news section. But publisher David Hiller says the paper is “actively considering and near a decision on some new ad positions [that] likely will include some of the section fronts.”

EARLIER:
Chicago Tribune considers putting ads on some section fronts
WSJ plan could “Bring In Tens Of Millions Of Dollars”…

Boys and Girls?

Bush’s first veto: No spare parts.

God in the House

“It wasn’t our idea, it was God’s.”

Not everyone believes that writing discrimination into the U.S. Constitution reflects biblical principles. The Clergy for Fairness has organized clergy members and religious leaders around the country who strongly oppose the Federal Marriage Amendment.

Stop the (Word)press

Blogging Is … a Hobby

Via CJR Daily, a recent study of American bloggers conducted by the Pew Internet & American Life Project found that 34 percent of bloggers see their blogging as a form of journalism. Most, however, blog as a hobby rather than a vocation.

Jack Shafer: Bloggers: What do they want?

“seemingly haphazard bombing”

July 19, 2006

Columbia Missourian
221 S 8th St
Columbia, MO 65201

Dear Columbia Missourian:

I am currently a Fulbrighter in Syria. Since the beginning of Israel’s
invasion of Lebanon, I have seen a great flux of Lebanese–Christians and
Muslims– coming through Damascus and have heard their sad tales. The
world must not turn a blind face to Israeli’s brutal invasion and
demolition of Lebanon. Women and children are continually dying. The
Israeli army is destroying all sorts of infrastructure that is sending the
country back to the Middle Ages. What is perhaps the worst part of this
unjust war against Lebanon is Israeli’s seemingly haphazard bombing of
Lebanon. Israel says it is only out to eradicate Hizbullah, but then why
is it bombing private factories, churches, and Christian and Muslim
residential areas? Additionally, why does it continue to shoot unarmed
civilians who are trying to leave the war zone? Please get this message
out to the community and our political leaders. I don’t want my community
to stand behind this kind of injustice.

Waiting Around to Die

One of the more memorable scenes from Margaret Brown’s documentary, “Be Here to Love Me”

Townes Van Zandt “was master of the small, intimate show, where he would weave song and story into an unforgettable evening.

I call bullshit

Says who?

Children, my ass. This analysis suggests that attitudes towards gay marriage are far more related to views towards gays themselves than on beliefs about gender roles.

But which churches?

Since 2004, the IRS has investigated more than 200 churches and nonprofit organizations. Federal law prohibits the IRS from releasing the names of those under investigation, but the agency said it has more than 100 cases pending and 40 of them are churches.

Two days before the 2004 presidential election, the Rev. George F. Regas, former rector of All Saints Church in Pasadena, delivered a guest sermon that picturedJesus in a debate with George W. Bush and John Kerry. Although Regas didn’t endorse a candidate, he said Jesus would have told Bush that hispre-emptive war policy “has led to disaster.”

The church drewnational attention when the Rev. Ed Bacon, rector of All Saints, disclosed the IRS investigation and later said the agency believed the church had violated federal tax code barring tax-exempt organizations from intervening in political campaigns and elections.

Vertical Composition

Kalamazoo Institute of Arts Shows Jackson Pollack

The Kalamazoo Institute of Arts will exhibit a painting by Jackson Pollock that illustrates the artist’s return to figurative elements in the 1950s. Vertical Composition (c. 1953-55) is on display at the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts through September 1.

Intimate in scale but powerful with its energetic swirls and globs of thick paint, Vertical Composition reveals Pollock’s return to a more controlled application of paint. The artist had gained fame in the late 1940s with his large paintings created with a “pour technique.” Pollock placed large canvases on the floor, moving around them like a dancer; pouring and dripping paint but never allowing the brush to touch the surface.

Vertical Composition was painted more traditionally, with a brush and easel, but the viewer can still visualize Pollock moving around the canvas, using large, strong movements and gestures to apply layers of red, brown, white, green and blue paint. Triangular areas of red and white emphasize the verticality of the painting and emerging from the thick surface is a hint of the human form, albeit extremely simplified.

Evacuation

The United States and European nations have dispatched more than 20 military and commercial ships to aid in the evacuation, one of the largest in recent times.

Watch Americans Being Evacuated From Lebanon…

UPDATE: The White House has reversed its position and will be waiving the costs.