The military rulers in Myanmar continue to block aid and food for the masses of people devastated by the cyclone (an event that is being played down on state TV). The leadership is also still focused on a referendum that would give them even more power (the date of the vote is not being changed in part because it was ordained by astrologers).

We really need to broaden the meaning of the word genocide.

More news on Myanmar, always updated.

So if you’re an NFL addict like me, the news that there is now more evidence that the Patriots taped a lot of opposing coach’s signals is worthy of a good argument over beers and a few hours in front of the NFL Network.

But if you’re a Senator and you’re holding meetings about this, you’re a flat out joke. I’m talking to you Arlen.

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How bad is the economy? Is the dive towards recession real?

Consider this. Vegas is suffering greatly because of economic troubles. When the house is sucking wind, we’ve got a problem.

The only thing keeping casino owners from sticking their heads into the mouth of a Seigfried and Roy lion is a terribly weak dollar that keeps the foreign visitors coming to the strip.

Here’s all the latest news on Las Vegas

If you blame the media (television news in particular) for the sad state of political discourse in this country, you might be on the right track. Television news personalities, coupled with the public’s attraction to the shallow and/or stupid, have done great harm to the content of our national screaming match.

Take a look at this Meet the Press interview of Sen. Barack Obama. Tim Russert is supposed to be one of the more sane among his cohort. Well, even in the level-toned rhythms of Russerts supposedly intellectually high brow morning show, it took a full 22 minutes to get to a single issue other than Reverend Wright and inside baseball questions about political gamesmanship. If this is the crud we get at 8am, one can only imagine the hogwash spewed during prime time.

This is our coverage of elections. And our coverage of subjects such as the economy and war and peace isn’t much different (I will not waste the lines of html required to provide the all too obvious examples).

Next week, Sunday morning, it’s cartoons.

More on Obama-Russert from everywhere.

This is the first big story since I launched Addictomatic a couple days ago. It’s pretty fun to watch the buzz about Microsoft and Yahoo as it rolls in from various sources.

I Inhaled: Introducing Addictomatic

I am pleased to introduce Addictomatic: Inhale the Web. I’ve been working on the site for a few months and so far, people seem to be getting a bit addicted. A bit more detail below the robot:

Addictomatic – Inhale the Web

Addictomatic searches the best live sites on the web for the latest news, blog posts, videos and images. It’s the perfect tool to keep up with the hottest topics, perform ego searches and feed your addiction for what’s up and what’s now.

Search. Personalize. Bookmark.

After you search, you can personalize your results dashboard by moving around the source boxes. When you’re done, bookmark the page and keep coming back to your personaized results dashboard for that search.

Newsfix

Our newsfix pages provide the latest headlines on topics such as entertainment, politics, shopping, sports and more. You get all the feeds from the best sources in each category. And like your search results dashboard, you can personalize the layout of the headline boxes, delete ones you don’t like and bookmark your personalized page.

I couldn’t have launched the site without the great development work by Alex King and his crew over at Crowd Favorite. Excellent work by the entire team over there. Alex does a great job explaining the service on his blog. Hat tip also to Bryan Bell. I’ve been wanting to work with him for awhile and he did an incredible job designing the logo and the site.

Go ahead. Inhale.