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Juan Williams and NPR
I could be wrong, but I believe that if Juan Williams had said "... But when I get on the plane, I got to tell you, if I see people who are carrying a Bible and wearing a Westboro Baptist Church t-shirt, and I think, you know, they are identifying themselves first and foremost as Christians, I get worried. I get nervous" then he would still be at ( Read more... ) -
Depressing Thought for the Day
Asteroid to Skim Past EarthIt's 20 ft in diameter, which would make it considerably smaller than the 150-ft diameter meteor that struck Arizona about 50,000 years ago. Apparently, we've greatly downsized our definition of what constitutes an "asteroid ( Read more... ) -
Stop the Presses!
There's an old saying in journalism: "When a dog bites a man, it's not news. When a man bites a dog...that's news!"
From West Haven, CT: News!
Man Sinks Teeth Into Police Doghttp://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/local-beat/Man -
Truth
Jay Cost at The Weekly Standard did an analysis of President Obama's interview in Rolling Stone.
His article includes an analysis of today's politics that I believe is spot-on, and that is like air: it's so pervasive and around us that we go through our day without even thinking about the fact that it's there.
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Such worldviews are some of ( Read more... ) -
Iowahawk Nails It
In his commentary on the new AGW PSA known as 10:10:
Mad Men
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And somehow, throughout this entire process, not one of the hundreds of people involved seemed to have questioned the wisdom of an advertising message advocating the violent, sudden death of people who disagree with it. -
Lest We Forget
From time to time I check the online obits for my old home town, sadly with the passage of time I'm more frequently seeing familiar names appear ( Read more... ) -
I'm surprised they let the headline go unchanged that long.
I was just checking e-mail, and noted the following.
At 6:31 PM, I received an e-mail message from the New York Times with a news story summary and link to an analysis of the upcoming midterm elections.
The teaser in the e-mail reads as follows:
Breaking News Alert
The New York Times
Wed, September 15, 2010 -- 6:31 PM ET
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Poll Suggests Big ( Read more... ) -
Writer's Block: The day the earth stood still
Every song has a day, every day has a song.
September 11th's song is Justin Hayward's Forever Autumn. -
Great. Good thinking, guys.
The real 2001: Scientists teach robots how to trick humans
Great.
What's next? Scientists teach monkeys how to fire machine guns?