Huck Finn and Harper Lee in the crosshairs Fox reports (yeah, yeah, I know): Minnesota school district removes To Kill a Mockingbird, Huckleberry Finn from required reading due to n-word. “It’s wrong. There […]
N-bombs in American cultural treasures
Then they fight you: DNC shuts down Sanders campaign
Recently, the private company that manages data for the DNC suspended the Sanders campaign’s access to their own voter data. Ostensibly, this is because the Sanders campaign accessed data exclusively owned by […]
Celebrity lawyer Gloria Allred wants Florida to prosecute Limbaugh using forgotten statute: she's the best thing that's happened to Rush in weeks
I wonder what Rush Limbaugh will be talking about on his show this coming week? Ah, maybe this: In a letter dated March 8, [celebrity lawyer Gloria] Allred, writing on behalf of […]
Imagine there's no boycotts: that sounds like Communism to me
Following up on yesterday’s post about how unfair it is when progressives fight fire with fire… One of the architects of the modern conservative boycott movement back in the day was the […]
Parents Television Council pitches hissy over the use of the word "fudge" in prime time
Can’t make this stuff up, folks. I mean, you could, but everybody would think you were, well, making stuff up. On tonight’s episode of Modern Family (perhaps TV’s best sitcom), one of the […]
Hold Rupert Murdoch to account. But go no further.
A goodly number of Murdoch’s newspapers run at a loss. This isn’t because he’s a bad businessman, it’s because of the industry. His competitors are doing worse. However, Murdoch loves newspapers and […]
Readers are as good at being regulators as viewers are at judging talent shows
Jeff Jarvis, scion of New York’s Graduate School of Journalism, took issue with my Twitter response expressing the belief that newspaper buyers are complicit in the actions of newspaper producers (wrt to […]
Supreme Court ruling on video games only an assault on bad parenting
by Tom Shortell The Supreme Court ruled Monday it’s unconstitutional to ban the sale of violent video games to children, striking a severe blow to lazy parents across the nation. In a […]
Royal wedding an antidote for storms, wars, space launches and religious protests
by Jane Briggs-Bunting Local and national new outlets are going gaga over THE wedding. A prince and a commoner, was there ever a better fairy tale possibility all slated for worldwide viewing […]
Pastor Terry Jones, a publicity seeking rogue, sits in court in Michigan
by Jane Briggs-Bunting Florida Pastor Terry Jones is in a Dearborn, Michigan court this morning (April 22) trying to persuade a jury of seven that his plans to hold a protest later today […]
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