HBO turns ‘Fire’ into fantasy series HBO has acquired the rights to turn George R.R. Martin’s bestselling fantasy series “A Song of Fire and Ice” into a dramatic series to be written and exec produced by David Benioff and D.B. Weiss. … The series will begin with the 1996 first book, “A Game of Thrones,” and the intention is for… Read more →
Day: January 17, 2007
Universal Health Care: Take That Harpocrats!
Well, that graph by itself should go a long way towards answering the “received wisdom” from Canada’s right wing that “health care is broken”. And, it should also go a long way in helping the US left in justifying universal health care. The graph comes from a fairly detailed article on the results of a study into our more than… Read more →
Today’s Rage Aneurisym
I’m not sure which of these two straws are going to break the camel’s back, but… Over at Kos, they’re highlighting this segment of the NYT article headed “Pressure Builds Over Plan for Troop Increase“: Mr. Bush’s National Security Adviser, Stephen J. Hadley, said in an interview on “Meet the Press” on NBC that the White House has sufficient money… Read more →
