I just read a Washington Post article about Bush’s speech today in Philly. It says: After the speech ended early, Bush — in a rare move — took questions from the audience. When the president was asked about the number of Iraqi deaths in the war, he estimated 30,000 people have been killed since March [...]
Looks like the New York Times is actually catching on to what is going on in the blogosphere — besides criticism of Steven Colbert’s ears — and has started to provide links back to bloggers and posts that are discussing their articles. They lead off with discussion of the Miller case of course. The following [...]
I’ll admit it. I love my Powerbook. I love my iPod. I’ve got lots of other computers and electronic devices that I really enjoy using as well, but there is something about Apple’s products that brings out another level of joy and yes, techno-lust. Yeah, a Dell laptop or a Creative Zen may do the [...]
I watched a few minutes of CNN this morning before work. I don’t mind Soledad O’Brien but her wondertwin plutonic husband Miles is an absolute doofus. This morning he confimed it when he said, “I have no talent. That’s why I’m here.” Given, I may be taking him out of context, but that is certainly [...]
First, a word about the New York Times and their new $50 per year Times Select plan that puts the op-eds and other select features behind a subscription wall. How incredibly short-sighted and foolish of the Times. They’ve turned a blind eye to blogs and the huge impact that citizen journalism is having in pushing [...]
Anderson Cooper has continuously impressed me during the past week with his honesty, probity, and grace. While much of CNN’s coverage has been repetitive (as is the nature of 24 hour cable news), leaving me feeling enraged and disgusted, his has been moving and informative. I just watched a remarkable piece Cooper did with Dr. [...]
Because the media just loves a bleeder, this year’s sports coverage, when not obsessing over T.O., has focused on steroids in baseball. Congress, taking quite seriously its mantle of the world’s most deliberative body, decided that their time would be best spent investigating these media rumors. Nevermind that whole illegal war thing. Rafael Palmeiro, the [...]
It’s almost patently irresponsible of me that I have not yet written about Latoyia Figueroa, the 25-year-old pregnant mother who has been missing from the Philadelphia area since July 18. Unfortunately she’s not white, blond, or about to get married, so until Richard Cranium of All Spin Zone picked up the drum beat, the mainstream [...]
So you already spend most of your time reading my blog. I’m willing to guess that the rest of your hours, when not cleaning the spyware off your overburdened PC, reading one of those books about that devil-worshipping Harry Potter, or trying to remember which words you can’t say on TV, are spent watching Jon [...]
I missed the article yesterday, but Atrios does a good job of finding posts pointing out the remarkable hypocrisy and blatant rancor in Helaine Olen’s article about firing her nanny because of her anonymous blog in this weekend’s New York Times. It begins… OUR former nanny, a 26-year-old former teacher with excellent references, liked to [...]
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