According to the latest Publisher’s Lunch: Viacom to Split; Simon & Schuster Goes to CBS–for Now The Viacom board announced their approval of splitting the company in two yesterday, with the “growth” assets retaining the Viacom name and the “mature” assets–including CBS, Paramount TV and King World, Infinity Broadcasting, Showtime, the outdoor advertising group and,… Continue reading

Superimposing maps of prevalence of AIDS on prevalence of Catholicism is enough to sink the link between the Catholic Church and AIDS. In the hospice which is Swaziland nowadays, only about 5 per cent of the population is Catholic. In Botswana, where 37 per cent of the adult population is HIV infected, only 4 per… Continue reading

Victor Davis Hanson: As nations come to know the Chinese, and as a ripe Europe increasingly cannot or will not defend itself, the old maligned United States will begin to look pretty good again. More important, America will not be the world’s easily caricatured sole power, but more likely the sole democratic superpower that factors… Continue reading

Another superb overview of so-called Intelligent Design theory: And that’s the problem with ID: it’s simplistic. To argue that complex biological phenomena are “irreducibly complex” is to abandon the scientific quest. As Richard Dawkins, who boasts the bold professional title of Charles Simonyi Professor of the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University, explains in… Continue reading

Apparently portable media players are not breaking through the way media toy producers had hoped.