besides being morbidly fascinating, this story reminds me of a question of ethics brought up in my high school Freshman journalism class. Is it more appropriate to quote people exactly as they say something or to correct their grammar for readers so as not to make them sound like an idiot (but thus altering the truthiness of the quote). I can't ( Read more... )

I haven't posted in forever, and I'm only kind of sorry for that... I post about once a month at the Scarecrow blog (www.scarecrow.com), but I do need the help of a community of great minds right now ( Read more... )

Hey guys, some of you probably already listen to this show on the radio or from time to time, but I suggest heading over to the Democracy Now website to watch/listen/podcast today's episode, which contains pretty good coverage of the election results. It ranges from the good (a woman speaker of the house, a Muslim headed to Congress and a Socialist ( Read more... )

From an article on CNN ( Read more... )

Okay, I swear I will actually update this thing with something worthwhile one of these days. I have a project planned involving my recently hooked-up and functioning scanner, but for now, I read this quote from John Bolton, the U.S. ambassador to the UN, that was in response to Chavez calling Bush "Satanic ( Read more... )

I've gotten addicted to browsing the "Free Stuff" section of Craigslist. Here's a gem from today ( Read more... )

Further proof that the conservative right isn't actually Pro-Life:
U.S. has second worst newborn death rate in modern world, report says"From the article ( Read more... )

watch this

CNN.com has the following videos on the front page right now (sorry, links are Flash or something so I can't post live ones ( Read more... )

Marjorie (amanda's sister) tagged me to do this, so here ( Read more... )