Have you ordered Banana Republicans: How the Right Wing is Turning America into a One-Party State? Our new book by Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber arrives in bookstores exactly three weeks from today. Rampton and Stauber will be hitting the road speaking at public events in New York, Washington, London, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston and other cities.

Professor Sir David King, the British government's chief scientist, warned that Antarctica could become the world's only habitable place by the year 2100. King said that the last time atmospheric carbon dioxide levels were as high as they are now was 60 million years ago, during a period of rapid global warming, when "no ice was left on Earth.

"The spots may be optimally situated by the blunt standards of Madison Avenue, which puts a premium on placing commercials in programs where they will have the most emotional effects," writes Jim Rutenberg, in an article on presidential campaign advertising.