August 31st, 2006
The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed: Vicki Larson: Why Divorce Doesn't Always End A Relationship
Here's how most of us who are thinking about leaving our marriage imagine divorce will be like: We've had it with our partner, and we think — finally, freedom. Read More… More on Life After Divorce [Link]
The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed: Maureen Ryan: 'Mad Men' Recap: Flirting, Forging And A Face From The Past In 'Christmas Waltz'
There's trust there, and there's attraction there, and those two have been through enough to know that if they ever gave in to the attraction, it would damage the trust, so they don't give in to temptation. Read More… More on TV [Link]
The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed: Sydney Levin: 'Real Housewives of New Jersey' Recap: This Means (Tug of) War!
It's time to start the First Annual Jacqueline Laurita Field Day … and it always includes a tug-of-war. But when things don't go her way, Gia dissolves into tears and throws a tantrum of epic proportions. Read More… More on TV Recaps [Link]
The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed: Mike Ragogna: Storm & Grace: A Conversation with Lisa Marie Presley, Plus A.J. Croce Heads East in May
A Conversation with Lisa Marie Presley Mike Ragogna : Lisa, you have a new album, Storm & Grace , and you approached this one very differently than your others, especially by working on it with T-Bone Burnett. Can you tell us the history of how the project came together? Read More… More on Video [Link]
The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed: Don McNay: Autism and My Grandson's First Swim
My grandson and I recently went to a baseball game. He is learning about the sport his grandfather loves. While we were there, he completely reprogrammed my cell phone. He fixed a problem in thirty seconds that Apple's tech people couldn't fix in three hours. Read More… More on Autism [Link]
The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed: Sen. Bernie Sanders: Let's End Polluter Welfare
Instead of passing strong legislation to help reverse global warming, Congress continues the giveaways to the 200-year-old fossil fuel industry even as that industry's carbon pollution wreaks devastation on our planet. Enough is enough. Read More… More on Energy [Link]
The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed: Emma Gray: 'Girls': Lena Dunham's HBO Show Episode 6, Discussed In Gchat
Lori Fradkin: This was the first episode that was really all about Hannah. Emma Gray: I thought it was a really nice way of delving into her character a little more — taking her out of the insanity that is New York City. Read More… More on WOMEN ON TV [Link]
The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed: Crystal Bell: 'Girls' Recap: Michigan State Of Mind In 'The Return'
Hannah heads home to Michigan in this week's episode of HBO's "Girls," and it makes her question her life back in New York City. Plus, for the first time in this entire series, she and Adam have a normal conversation. Read More… More on TV Recaps [Link]
The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed: Julie Flynn Badal: Facebook Interruptus
My addiction to Facebook hit a breaking point. It was time to go cold turkey. And I learned my need for connection and privacy are in constant competition on social media, and Facebook can't resolve either need in a satisfactory way. Read More… More on Facebook [Link]
The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed: Peter Dreier: Activists Visit Geithner's Home to Ask "Which Side Are You On?"
The protesters consider Geithner the key architect of Obama's economic recovery plan and the loudest voice within the president's inner circle for taking a "hands off" approach to tougher government rules to tame Wall Street's risky practices. Read More… More on Occupy Wall Street [Link]
The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed: Tony Sachs: The 2012 Manhattan Cocktail Classic Wrap-Up: Bigger! Better! Boozier!
Like a plague of locusts or an army of Huns, the cocktailian hordes descended on New York City on May 11 — bar owners, mixologists, distillers, publicists, writers, and plain old fans of a boozy good time — for the fourth annual Manhattan Cocktail Classic . Four nights later, a city rested its collective throbbing head, bloated stomach and overworked liver, as we attempted to recover from one hell of a good time. Since its inception in 2009, the Cocktail Classic has exploded in both size and breadth. Anyone who couldn't find at least a few parties or seminars or competitions worth attending simply wasn't trying. Whether you were a cocktail geek looking for a good seminar about ice or a hedonist looking to get plowed, the Cocktail Classic had something for everyone. Well, besides teetotalers. Given that there were at least a half-dozen events going on at any one time in both Manhattan and Brooklyn during the four days of the Classic, I cannot give a comprehensive accounting of the whole shebang. I can only offer my own account of a journey through overindulgence — one that, for me, actually began a few days before the proper Classic got underway. Enterprising publicists, distillers and brand managers figured they'd better get some tastings in before everyone's schedule got totally crammed. So by the time things got rolling on Friday night, I'd already sampled Balblair Single Malt 's line of vintage whiskies (if you can afford it, try a dram of the soon-to-be-released 1969 vintage; if you can't, the 1989 will do in a pinch); checked out a top-secret, not-out-until-next-year bottling of Ron Abuelo rum (delicious); and tried the eats and drinks at JBird , a tremendous new bar/restaurant on East 75th that's launched the first salvo against the pubs and … [Link]
The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed: Maureen Ryan: 'Game of Thrones' Recap: Little Brothers (And Sisters) In Harm's Way
Enjoyable as it was, there was a slightly scattered quality to the episode, as the pieces were put into place for the Giant Battle They Have Been Talking About Forever. Read More… More on TV Recaps [Link]
US Politics | AMERICAblog News: Video: Puppy with head stuck in small box
Give me an "awwww." [Link]
The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed: Michael R. Powers: The Paradox of Allais' Effect
In comparing Allais' two counterintuitive observations — that pendulums behave oddly during eclipses and that human beings behave oddly when making decisions involving uncertainties — I can't help feeling the former is much more important than the latter. Read More… More on Physics [Link]
The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed: HuffPost Radio: Both Sides Now: Spitzer-Matalin on Chase Chastened & Bain Targeted
Eliot & Mary debate how a bad bet in London — shades of AIG! — produced "told you sos" from those wanting a strong Volcker Rule. Is Regulation still evil? Then: the two debate opening partisan attacks on Bain and Debt. Read More… More on Paul Ryan [Link]
The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed: Jill Donenfeld: Hummingbird Beats: Wild Squirrel Nut Butter
Keeley and Erika were University of Oregon sophomores when they made their first batch of homemade peanut butter. A year later (i.e., now), Wild Squirrel Nut Butter sells three peanut and two almond butters in roughly 50 stores in the Northwest. Read More… More on Travel Tips [Link]
The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed: Robert Kuttner: Which Way for Europe?
There is little support for Euro-bonds, little support for converting the ECB to a true central bank, and not quite enough support for a financial transactions tax. A financial transactions tax could do double duty. It could take a lot of the profit out of speculation against sovereign bonds — and also raise revenue needed for public investment. But though most European national governments now favor such a tax, it would be difficult to implement without cooperation of the two biggest money centers, namely Britain and the U.S., whose governments remain opposed. So while Greece is right on the razor's edge of default, and may yet be granted some overdue relief, the prospects for broader European recovery are still very bleak until the politics get a lot more radical. Read More… [Link]
The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed: Ted Kaufman: Big Bank Time Bomb Ticking
What is so abundantly clear is that the lack of transparency in derivatives trading, and the sheer complexity that is a by-product of that lack of transparency, really can make them "financial weapons of mass destruction." Read More… More on Warren Buffett [Link]
US Politics | AMERICAblog News: 63% support military action against Iran
Some people – in this case 63% – never learn. What part of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars are people missing? People really need to stop listening to the war machine who is chomping at the bit to have constant war. The US not afford another costly war that drags on forever. It should be obvious that wars aren't the answer to every international problem by now but apparently, it's not. The… [Link]
The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed: Stuart McIntyre: 3 Reasons There Wasn't an American Spring
As costs rise, quality has stagnated, and undergraduates have been herded into giant lecture halls to be taught by graduate students and adjunct faculty. The operation of the machine has become pretty odious, but why aren't students putting their bodies on the upon the gears? Read More… More on Occupy Wall Street [Link]