So says Mark Cuban. Now, I’m typically a big Cuban fan. But I’m looking at an AdAge report on his remarks from yesterday’s Cable Telecommunications Association for Marketing (CTAM) Summit, and I’m […]
winterSmith
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VerseDay: minimalism
After last week’s fun little exchange over poetry-related topics my fellow scrogues and I agreed to make Thursdays Poetry Day here at S&R. Let me kick things off. Since we’ve also been […]
Summer of scandal and the death of sport?
I love sports. Always have. I grew up playing all the usual sports and eagerly tried out a lot of others when I got older. I’ve always been a big spectator, too, […]
CU and the Churchill Affair: how did this happen in the first place?
The wait is over and the inevitable has happened: the University of Colorado yesterday formally dismissed Professor Ward Churchill. Interim President Hank Brown explained, in an open letter to the school’s donors: […]
Happy Birthday, Hunter…
[UPDATE] Hunter’s widow, Anita, has a nice post on Hunter’s birthday at Owl Farm Blog. ———– You may have noticed that Hunter Thompson is back on the masthead. Today would have been […]
Joss Whedon on “honor killing”
I don’t usually do drive-bys, but Joss Whedon (he of Buffy and Firefly fame) has an impassioned take on the much under-publicized “honor killing” of Dua Khalil, and some of our readers […]
Vick indicted; your turn, Misters Goodell and Blanks…
Michael Vick has been indicted for dogfighting. NFL Star Sacked in Dogfight Probe – Grand Jury Indicted Falcons QB Mike Vick in Dogfighting Investigation Michael Vick has been indicted by a federal […]
Edwards launches “poverty tour”; have-mores launch the lie machine
John Edwards kicked off Poverty Tour 2007 today. His opponents and a lot of media people who’d know better if they’d studied a little harder in school will be countering with the […]
The 7th Sign: RoUSes jump ship, throw Bush under speeding bus fleeing Iraq debacle…
We’ve seen a slow trickle of ship-jumping (or jump-related jibber-jabber) in recent days as a variety of GOP rats have come to understand that President George Walker Bush now stands as the […]
DC Madame scandal: Vitter, hoist, petard
And away we go! Sen. David Vitter, a conservative Louisiana Republican, has become the first major pol linked to “DC Madame” Deborah Jane Palfrey. [UPDATE: Won’t you please help save Sen. Vitter’s […]
