Is PBS Next? Is Laura Bush Anti-Christian? Has the Time Travel Convention Started Yet?

Suddenly, everyone's talking about Kenneth Y. Tomlinson, the new (Republican) head of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which operates PBS (and todays' burstiest person).

According to the New York Times, his agenda includes a desire to rid PBS of its "liberal bias," and bloggers have a few things to say about that. The Pandagon blog has attracted plenty of comments, and Progress Now describes the move as "kulturkampf" by the far right. More insights are provided by Dangerous Meta. (For the sake of equal time, I have to ask: when do full-scale investigations begin of "conservative bias" on TV/radio?)

Bloggers are still mentioning BlogPulse's 10-million blog milestone, so we ran a trend graph comparing references to the word "blogosphere" to other universes. And it's pretty interesting:



The First Lady dares to poke fun
Most people thought Laura Bush's jokes at the White House correspondents' dinner last weekend were funny and well-delivered. Not conservative Christians, according to The Swift Report, which claims some evangelical groups are criticizing Mrs. Bush for ignoring biblical commands to respect one's husband. (Note: they're JOKES. Ha-Ha. Sense of humor?)

Today's top blog link tells of the upcoming Time Traveler's Convention to be held Saturday at MIT in Boston. It's a "show-up-or-not, whenever-you-get-here" kind of affair, apparently.

Moviegoers continue to discuss The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, laundresses are buzzing over the new "Your Turn" washing machine that won't allow the same user to operate it twice in a row, and Florida sure seems to have more than its fair share of issues these days. Coincidence? Or not? Think about it.

BLOGPULSE TREND GRAPH OF THE DAY: Speaking of issues in Florida, where have the Schiavos gone? Back to the privacy of their own homes, let's hope.