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Did you hear about that report released last week from a Stanford University atmospheric chemist demonstrating that the tailpipe emissions from cars using E85 ethanol are actually more dangerous than those using normal gasoline? You didn’t? Hmmm. What a shock.Anyway, Environmental Science & Technology reported Wednesday (emphasis added throughout, h/t NB member Dahlia Travers):When Mark…

Under the guise of promoting feminist art, the Arts section of the April 22 Washington Post featured four images of nude or partially nude women and suggested that pornography is aesthetic.

I think I might know the reason that Karl Rove didn’t want Sheryl Crow touching him. He’s read her blog, and he knows where her hand has been. What is it with these environmentalists and scatology? First there was “The Year Without Toilet Paper” in the New York Times, and now this. Muzak-friendly pop-rocker, Sheryl Crow and “An Inconvenient Truth” producer and private-jet aficionado Laurie David…

In a move destined to elicit applause from Americans on both sides of the aisle, the student government of Virginia Tech has formally asked all members of the media to be off their campus by Monday.Bravo.As reported at the website of WJLA, Washington, D.C.’s ABC affiliate: A spokeswoman for the student government says the campus appreciates the reporting on the story, but that students are ready…

Yikes, sports fans, this is truly astonishing.“Saturday Night Live” on April 21 introduced a new cartoon character named “Torboto: The Robot That Tortures People” (video available here, h/t Ian).In the animated segment, Torboto is a creation of Vice President Dick Cheney’s. In order to get around Geneva Convention regulations preventing humans from torturing humans, Cheney’s scientists created a…

From "The Celeb Page" in the April issue of Nick (Nickelodeon TV) magazine, they asked actress Renee Zellweger: "If you were a superhero, who would you want as your sidekick?" Zellweger's answer: "[Former president] Jimmy Carter."Isn't he a little old and slow for superhero work?

If you’re a leftwing journalist with a new television special about to air on PBS accusing the Bush administration of using the media to sell the Iraq war in 2003, is there any place better to promote the event than HBO’s “Real Time?”Bill Moyers must have felt this was the perfect venue to market his upcoming “Buying the War” program, as he discussed its contents and his views of the incursion…

I noticed it earlier this morning, and was reminded by NewsBusters member Conservative in the Arts that Internet search behemoth Google was featuring an interesting logo to commemorate Earth Day:                                                   Looks like a melting iceberg, doesn’t it? Is the company making a bold statement about its view of anthropogenic global warming?

Karl Rove found out Saturday evening that the annual White House Correspondents' Association Dinner isn’t just about comedians and members of the press telling jokes at the Administration’s expense. Depending on whose account you believe, it is also about invited guests having the opportunity to confront White House staff in order to give them indigestion before their meal.*****Updates at end of…

Is The Ford Motor Company committing an Old-Media-assisted suicide? On Wednesday, One News Now had a story about how the Formerly Mainstream Media has largely ignored the negative impact the the American Family Association's boycott of Ford has had on the company (an audio version of the report is also at the link): News media ignoring Ford boycott, media analyst says

Original caption: Veteran CNN talk show host Larry King (2nd L) and American Idol cast-off Sanjaya Malakar (R) arrive for the annual White House Correspondents' Association dinner in Washington