By: Cary Briel, Skaneateles Design

I watched the Arianna Huffington interview on Charlie Rose a few days ago. You really have to love Charlie Rose and the intellectual integrity he represents amidst a sea of Jerry Springer-like, sensational and biased news media here in the US. Here’s a question for you: click here and then here and let know how long it takes you to tell the difference? Compare to this, and you’re task becomes more difficult yet. I frequent HuffingtonPost.com as well as BBCnews.com, to escape the 24-7 Rev Wright, kindergarten siege of mainstream US news coverage.

By: Cary Briel, Skaneateles Design

Time has just named its 100 most influential people in the world in 2008. #1 in the list is Shigeru Miyamoto. Before clicking here, do you have any idea who the heck this guy is?

Actually, there are 207 people in the list, each having a rating from 1 to 100 (i.e., some people tied with other people). Incidentally, Miley Cyrus – aka Hannah Montana (rank 146, rating 33) is also one of the top 100 influentials. Check! The full list can be found here.

By Cary Briel, Skaneateles Design

Must give Obama credit for the ‘high road’ approach to campaigning he’s taken, being effectively the anti-Clinton. Yes, they’re both politicians, and yes she is behind so she probably feels the Clintonian call to do anything to save her presidential soul (a Clinton never loses, so expect her next move to be to going postal w/ her “grandfather’s guns”).

By: Cary Briel, Skaneateles Design

Author Benjamin Barber recounts in his book, “The Truth of Power: Intellectual Affairs in the Clinton White House” how Hillary Clinton answered another speaker who had raised the difficulties of reaching “Reagan Democrats” after Democratic losses in the 1994 Congressional elections. The debate emerged at a retreat at Camp David in 1995. (more…)

By: Cary Briel, Skaneateles Design

Three memorable “misspeaks” of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, probably just the tip of the iceberg?

Clinton misspeak #1:

During an April 1995 visit to Tibet, Hillary Clinton met New Zealand’s Sir Edmund Hillary, co-first-climber of Mount Everest. Clinton remarked that her mother, Dorothy Emma Howell Rodham, (more…)