Jon Stewart

Stewart, following Pickens right out of the building (Power Lines blog)

If only Jon Stewart knew something about T. Boone Pickens, or electricity, or wind power, or natural gas. Pickens' appearance on Stewart's The Daily Show Wednesday night might have gone beyond hero worship.

Simpsons Comes Across—and Down!—on Sunday (E! Online)

Natalie Finn Natalie Finn – 46 mins ago E! Online – Simpsons Comes Across—and Down!—on Sunday(E! Online) Los Angeles (E! Online) – Two favorite Sunday traditions, together at last! While they're known for having a...

Meet Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz (aka) Jon Stewart | The wildly zeitgeisty Daily Show host

On January 11, 1999, a nervous 37-year-old comedian who could have passed for a college student settled into a host's chair that was too high, wearing a gray suit that looked too large. "Honestly, I feel like this is my bar...

I.O.U.S.A. Misses Point

Daily Article by Doug French | Posted on 11/14/2008 [This essay originally appeared on LewRockwell.com.] However, destruction by deficit is not fait accompli, if Peter Peterson, David Walker, and the Concord Coalition have...

The Daily Show's Cleantech Week: Boone Pickens & Tom Friedman

“The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” seems to be the place to be if you want to pitch your grand energy idea. Author and energy technology evangelist Thomas Friedman was the guest on Tuesday, and last night T. Boone Pickens...

The 2008 Forward 50 Picks "Rahmbo," Obama's New Chief, Edgy Comedian and Olympic Swimmer Dara Torres

Postville, Iowa Catholic Priest Honored as Symbolic #51 for Sheltering Guatemalan Workers Nabbed in Kosher Slaughterhouse Raid NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwire - The Forward, American Jewry's most influential Jewish newspaper, today...

How They Got Their Big Break

Maureen Farrell and Melanie Lindner, 11.13.08, 03:45 PM EST What's more important--sweat or luck? In Pictures: How To Get Your Big Break Here's the hard truth about big breaks: They don't just happen; people make them...

The 10 Funniest Election Videos of 2008

These examples of terrific political satire are all neatly archived and available on the Web. Before the election fades from memory and the work of actually sorting out our nation's mess begins, I'd like to look back fondly at...

'The Office' in Canada? What a trip

Michael Scott in the Great White North. Michael, played by Steve Carell, is the lead character in The Office. And in the episode titled Business Trip, which airs tonight on Global and NBC, Michael travels to Winnipeg. Tagging...

I Am So Popular: Are You There God? It's Me, Spike.

Editor’s note: The views expressed in I Am So Popular are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the outlook or beliefs of anyone else in the IST network. The day before the election, I had my uterus yanked....