President of Vice – uh, Vice-President Dick Cheney spoke to the Wyoming convention of Boys State, that venerable civic organization, Sunday. As usual, he lied: Active citizenship is a duty, it’s not a chore. Getting involved in public affairs, whether it’s local, state, or national, takes hard work, it takes discipline, and occasionally it takes […]
Archive | June 4, 2007
Journalists: Cover my town. I'll pay you $191 a year.
For the past several years, I’ve spent $47.75 every three months for a subscription to the local newspaper that claims it covers my community of about 2,300 people. Other than my town’s sports teams, it rarely does. So I dropped it. So I’m willing to give that quarterly $47.75, or $191 a year, to anyone […]
Sheffield’s remarks: who should be offended?
“I called it years ago. What I called is that you’re going to see more black faces, but there ain’t no English going to be coming out. … [It's about] being able to tell [Latin players] what to do – being able to control them,” he told the magazine.”Where I’m from, you can’t control us. […]
Blogger, Journalist, Citizen
By Martin Bosworth This week I am front-paged on ConsumerAffairs.Com with a story that explores the blurred line between what we traditionally consider professional journalism, and the new democratized media of alternative news sites, bloggers, podcasters, and vloggers.
Every little thing evidently not magic as Police begin world tour…
Drummer Stewart Copeland of rock icons The Police wasn’t particularly happy with the band’s performance in Vancouver as they began their first world tour in 23 years May 30th: “This is unbelievably lame,” Copeland wrote [in his blog at his web site] of last Wednesday’s show at the GM Place arena. “We are the mighty […]
It Came From Hollywood!
We went to see Once yesterday, and I came to an annoying realization. First off, let’s get this out of the way: go see this movie right now. I guess it’s a musical, in that a huge portion of the film is conducted in song and that the music is essentially integrated into the narrative. […]
China to stress economic growth over arresting global heating
According to Deutsche Welle this morning, the official Chinese position on economic growth and global heating is that economic growth trumps global heating. “There is especially no research that details the economic impact of a two-degree restriction, nor what kind of influence such a target would bring on the development of each nation.” (Ma Kai, […]
S&R Honors
Click here to learn more about past honorees...- Pope Francis says atheists can go to heaven: Sweet Jesus! The College of Cardinals done elected a hippie
- Magic Hat vs. West Sixth brewhaha: will MH win the battle that costs them the war?
- WordsDay: Postmodernist Xerism at it most discontentedly hopeful…
- How to stop journalists: Say they might be criminals
- Denver FOX News affiliate caught making shit up
- Mystery Unraveled: How a white, moderate, married, churchgoing, middle-class, middle-aged woman could vote for Obama
- An open letter to Burt Rutan, regarding his WSJ commentary on human-caused climate disruption
- Meet the men of Match.com: Really, guys, are you serious?
- Climate scientists still besieged
- Pelosi on Bush: “He’s not worth impeaching”
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Frank Dilatush: Thank you Rathmone, you are a scholar and a mind r…
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rathmone: As awesome as it would be for Dudley Moore to be A…
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Brian Angliss: To answer your question, no, the Cook et al 2013 r…
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populartechnology: Brian, By rating the abstracts are they implyin…
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