The Simpsons are coming to the Arab world, but there are a few changes in the works. AOL news writes today about how Fox’s cash cow will play on Arab TV. “Homer Simpson’s ubiquitous Duff beer will now be soda in the Arab version of the show. Hot dogs will […]

In what would have been a beautifully choreographed segment, Ms. Kosinski was reporting live about flooding in Wayne, N.J., in a canoe that was floating down a submerged suburban thoroughfare. The NY Observer and Poynter had the story. “Eight days of rain, and some neighborhoods don’t even look like neighborhoods […]

Dan Schoor just got back from North Korea, and blogged about it. “When I pointed my camera at the large picture of Kim Il-sung that hung over the stadium, a woman in uniform swatted my camera down, resulting in a blurry shot of the chairs. I noted the stern, disapproving […]

An informational meeting to help West County people set up carpools is set for next Wednesday, Oct. 26, at 6:30 p.m. at Stillwaters Restaurant, reported the Recorder. The meeting, planned by Stillwaters owner Michael Phelps, aims to introduce selectmen, business and religious leaders and anyone else interested to MassRides, a […]

Roddy Scheer writes in emagazine about our President’s new concern for energy conservation, now that the Gulf’s refineries are down. They’ve even introduced a new theme, “the Energy Hog,” complete with smiling porcine mascot. Don’t be an Energy Hog!  “The situation we are facing is a very different one than […]

Public art in Valparaiso, Chile, and photographer Paul Shoul. 

Ahhh to be back in the U.S. where newspapers are printed in English! Picked up today’s NY Times in the airport and took a lot of time during my Miami layover to read. In Libya, five nurses and a doctor are being held in jail and a death sentence looms. […]

Travel is the best way to get to know somebody. That and working in the same office for a while. I got to know four great people over the past ten days as we traveled up and down Chile on a press trip. Carla Waldemar is a name I knew […]

Flying home tonight and today, a long journey from Santiago, Chile to Miami and later to JFK. The flight wasn’t full, so I was able to have two seats to myself. Still, none of us on this trip could get any sleep despite this extra seat bonus. This trip to […]

Reading a book on the plane by notorious grump Paul Theroux called ¨The Pillars of Hercules,¨where he travels from one end of Gibraltar to the other, the long way. After leaving the rock, he travels to Spain and has this to say. ¨The utterly blighted landscape of the Spanish coast–Europe´s […]

San Pedro de Atacama is a green oasis in the vast and arid northern sector of Chile, you can see the town miles away as you drive the rail-straight route from the airport at Calama. Calama is a mining town, the world´s biggest open-pit copper mine is here, and our […]