Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut. That Isn’t True.
Under PEPFAR, an outreach health worker ensured that Peter and other AIDS orphans got their medicines. Then in January, Trump and Musk effectively shuttered the U.S. Agency for International Development, perhaps illegally, and that PEPFAR outreach program ended. Orphans were on their own.
These Words Are Disappearing in the New Trump Administration
As President Trump seeks to purge the federal government of “woke” initiatives, agencies have flagged hundreds of words to limit or avoid, according to a compilation of government documents.Based on this list, the Declaration of Independence needs to be rewritten due to being "woke"
The funnest episode yet of The Lame Show, in which Noah and I look back at the summer movie season with the person who saw them all—Ray.
Episode 36: Summer Movie Season Recap
Ray from 2PStart.com returns to recap the summer movie season with Noah and Eddie. If you don’t like the topic, don’t worry, we get off topic at least three times.
Lame List nominations are handed out for the death of Don LaFontaine, the green screening of John McCain, and the Clone Wars (that one doesn’t rhyme).
Picks for this episode are the precursor to The Dark Knight, Google’s new web browser and Junior Senior’s “new” album, Hey Hey My My Yo Yo.
Noah and I finally got around to making a new (and legitimate) web site and feed for our podcast, The Lame Show. And by Noah and I, I mean Noah.
The web site is still at the same location, but the feed is now located at feeds.feedburner.com/TheLameShow. If you've subscribed through iTunes you shouldn't have to change anything. But in the off-chance, here's a link to the latest two episodes, which you really shouldn't miss:
Episode 35: Seinfeld vs. Harry Potter
Warner Bros. gets the first Lame List nomination of this episode for bumping the release date of the next Harry Potter movie. Then it’s on to text messaging Obama’s running mate.
Apple gets a Lame List nomination in this episode due to the NDA of its iPhone SDK, KWIM? And the (lack of) availability of the Wii Fit is lame enough to warrant multiple nominations.
First it was 200K, then 250K, then 300k…now the NY Times reports that 900,000 more copies of WATCHMEN have been printed since the trailer debuted. Thus there will be about one million copies of WATCHMEN in print this year.
It's been a week now since that "TR2N" teaser trailer ran at Comic-Con. And Disneyana & sci-fi fans are desperate for additional information about this Summer 2010 release.
Guess who's the real power-behind-the-throne (The Master Control Program, if you will) on this particular Walt Disney Pictures production? Would you believe John Lasseter?
Adolescent wizard-in-training Harry Potter returns to Hogwarts for another year of schooling and learns more about the dark past of the boy who grew up to become Lord Voldemort.I'm glad to see (in the photos, not the trailer) that Luna Lovegood is returning.
I was surprised how depressed I felt all day on July 21, when Richard and I announced we were leaving the "Ebert and Roeper" program. To be sure, our departures were voluntary. We hadn't been fired. And because of my health troubles, I hadn't appeared on the show for two years. But I advised on co-hosts, suggested movies, stayed in close communication with Don DuPree, our beloved producer-director. The show remained in my life. Now, after 33 years, it was gone--taken in a "new direction." And I was fully realizing what a large empty space it left behind.
Noah and I recorded this episode on July 12 and I only now got it online, but I don't think it's stale. In fact, there's definitely some fun stuff going on once we get into it.
Copyright and wrong
The folks behind Adium lead this week's Lame List nominations, followed by Wikipedia, for reasons obvious and not-so-obvious.Episode 33.m4a (55:09)
Picks for this episode are music albums: one a non-commercial release from Rhymefest (for legal reasons) and the other a slightly more commercial album from a little band called Coldplay.
Topics for discussion include: Microsoft ends sales of Windows XP, Apple begins the MobileMe service (poorly) and the App Store opens for business.
Josh Pigford joined Noah and I on this episode of The Lame Show, recorded after Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference concluded. It's actually a much funnier episode than you would think from that description. 
What Would Developers Do?
Guest Josh Pigford from The Apple Blog drops by to discuss Apple's announcements at WWDC: the new iPhone, Snow Leopard, Steve Jobs' weight-loss program...Episode 32.m4a (52:34)
But first they make their Lame List nominations: The iPhone is coming to Mexico, so why isn't Noah excited about that? Can eBay actually get worse? What's the deal with bugs?
Picks this episode include the new B-52s album, a new way to play retro videogames and iPhone games that aren't just for the iPhone.
So will any of them actually buy an iPhone now?
During negotiations to extend Richard Roeper's contract for "At the Movies," Disney ABC Domestic Television abruptly ended the talks. Thus Roeper, followed by the show's co-founder, Roger Ebert, left the show. On Tuesday, Disney ABC announced that E! Entertainment critic Ben Lyons and Turner Classic Movies host Ben Mankiewicz are take over hosting duties on a revamped At the Movies aimed at a younger demo.This is a very disappointing surprise.
