Well at least he's consistent:

An Eye for Leading Ladies

http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2002/06/10/020610ta_talk_green

PUBLIC LIVES; Photographer of Stars Will Nominate Them

http://www.nytimes.com/2000/06/30/nyregion/public-lives-photographer-of-stars-will-nominate-them.html

But this is all quite boringly superficial.

As the following article starts out, while discussing the CraigsList phenomena, it could be anything you unwittingly respond to online which gets you killed:

Craig Newmark speaks at victim's memorial in wake of Craigslist killings

http://sfweekly.com/2009-05-06/news/craigslist-unclassified/

So just like driving down the street, in the wrong section of town at the wrong time. Or hanging out in Baghdad when you should be elsewhere.

It's the democracy of CraigsList which is the apparent danger to these social protectors. A place where words have a power to unravel their social fabric, because the online words have lost any real meaning by simply swapping in desire for substance.

Caveat Emptor.

Actually it's not a done deal in Alaska.

The legislature is in recess until January. They're probably not going to call a special session for this, especially when the legislators think Palin will just ignore their vote anyway.

The big news is that they have the votes. But the real news is it may never come to that.

I rather doubt they were able to film in Tibet without drawing attention to the search and themselves.

Similary, a previous movie on the same subject

The Reincarnation of Khensur Rinpoche (1991)

http://www.whitecranefilms.com/film/reincarnate.html

was unable to film the actual meeting of the searching monk (Choenzey) with the young boy he sought out and the family in Tibet. We see the preparations in India, and the return, but not the meeting and the testing.

The difference between these movies is that there were external 'spiritual' signs that the young boy they were looking for was in fact the reincarnation of the late master Khensur Rinpoche.

Initially the parents wrote a unsolicited letter about their son directly to the Drepung monastary in India where the late Rinpoche had been an abbot. The mother had been visited by Tibet's state oracle (the Nechung Oracle) during the birth. And the young child showed affinity for monks and religious practice at an early age (he's barely four).

When he returns from Tibet with the young boy (Tashi Tsering), Choenzey mentions how familiar the lad is with him, and his quick willingness to leave from his parent's house.

It's of course hard to tell from a film how much the familiarity and calm we see Tashi displaying in his new surroundings, is due to how he's being treated. But in what we can see, it's clear that Tashi has no regrets.

And that is the story the filmakers set out to tell, wherein the consciousness is carried from life to life to life along the river of desire.

It appears a different story is at work in 'Unmistaken Child'.

I keep thinking about that graduation speech that Oprah made a few weeks ago when she emphasized that a person had not yet arrived until they owned their own plane.

It's my (secondhand) understanding that Oprah is quite nice to both viewers, and those you see on TV, but much less pleasant with those we don't.

It appears that as the unseen haven't yet arrived, they never will fly in her style.

they're right over there somewhere too:

North Korea's missile threat concerns some Alaskans

TARGETS: Pipeline, oil fields, military bases may be within range.

Alaskans are concerned over the prospect that North Korea is getting ready to test a long-range missile that could reach strategic targets in their home state.

And they're not buying Defense Secretary Robert Gates' assertion during a visit this past week to one of Alaska's many military installations that the missile is not a threat to the United States.

http://www.adn.com/front/story/822088.html

Otherwise she might need to be messing up those nice high heels in that nasty Alaska mud.

When the town of Eagle, Alaska was leveled by the Yukon River ice flows recently, it doesn't mean her state government will have to get all dirty helping them folk out:

http://www.themudflats.net/2009/06/08/the-hope-truck-trilogy-part-3-the-arrival/

Really, Alaskan's do know what they're doing with that checkbox:

OK…Just for the record, the box on the voter registration doesn’t say “Independent” or “Alaska Independent” or “Independent Alaskan”. It says “Alaskan Indpendence Party” and no Alaskan who was born and raised here, and has lived here all their life is going to confuse the Alaskan Independence Party with Non-Partisan. There is no plausible ”Oops! Checked off the secessionist box by mistake!” scenario.

http://www.themudflats.net/2009/07/01/the-accidental-secessionist-an-alaskan-fable/

And then I think Mudflats was ahead of Salon on this story too.

But who cares ? It was clear who she is from the start, the burning question was everyone buying what she was selling ?

Palin to quit as Alaska governor

http://www.adn.com/palin/story/852419.html

I think we are missing information in this story.

It's been suggested by the environmental groups that Feinstein has inserted an rider amendment into this year's NPS budget which allows operation of that Oyster farm for another 10 years. And it has passed the Senate.

The environmentalists are concerned that this is a dangerous precedent to allow a commercial operation inside a national park.

Clearly there's more to this little story than what this Salon piece alludes to in it's limited discussion that has been dredged up here for us.

Web links to those reports are available via my sig here, because of course there's always a web site these days.