The Star Report: Does Obama BlackBerry fetish threaten Republic?; plus, 'Grey's Anatomy', Oprah, nude Madonna photo

'Battlestar Galactica's' Ron Moore addresses the shocking developments of 'Sometimes a Great Notion'
This post contains extensive interviews and information about ?Sometimes a Great Notion,? the Jan. 16 episode of Sci Fi's "Battlestar Galactica." Below, ?Battlestar Galactica? executive producer Ronald D. Moore talks in detail about several big developments in the episode. I'd recommend watching the episode before reading the full text of the post. Bradley Thompson and David Weddle, who wrote the episode, penned essays about how they arrived at ?Notion?s? title, the influence of a Ken Kesey novel on the episode, how they came up with its story lines -- including the "swimming fox" story -- and also about the episode?s...
The Star Report: Does Obama BlackBerry fetish threaten Republic?; plus, 'Grey's Anatomy', Oprah, nude Madonna photo
President-elect Barack Obama is in the midst of his first constitutional crisis, and we're not talking about what kind of dog he's going to get for his girls.
'The Electric Company,' Rebooted
The Electric Company charged up a generation of young readers in the 1970s. Now it's back with a new gang and a timeless goal: to make learning fun.
EUROPE: Funnily, Bulgaria Is Not a Turkish Toilet
BUCHAREST, Jan 17 (IPS) - A work of art exhibited this week in Brussels has turned out to be an unusual test for whether some Europeans are able to laugh at themselves. Just as the artist intended.