No suprise, really, but in today's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing he "questioned" Attorney General John Ashcroft. Ashcroft: I condemn torture. I think it ... it ... Biden: So it's not justified then? Ashcroft: I don't think it's productive, let alone justified. Biden: Well, I don't either. And, by the way, there's a reason ... I'll […]
For about eight years I've had my name on the SPJ-L list. Back in the mid-90s the list served as a forum for advice on the craft of journalism, job opportunities and general advice. Starting about the time of the 2000 presidential election, however, the listserv became little more than a collection of conspiracy theories, […]
The media has gotten a ton of criticism (much of it deserved) for injecting the prisoner abuse at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison into everything from theater reviews to food columns. The Union-Tribune's Gina Lubrano steps up and acknowledges that, at least in one case, the reference was inappropriate. After seeing the story, White, who was […]
John Kerry, the presumptive Democrat nominee for president, struck the right tone in his statement on Ronald Reagan's death. Others, at Daily Kos, Democratic Underground and (predictably) Ted Rall have not been so...human. I actually called up the Michael Medved show earlier today as Medved was asking for people to come up with similarities between […]
Just got back from watching the latest Harry Potter movie. Excellent special effects. It follows the plot of the book pretty closely. Acting is good. Well worth the money. One slightly annoying thing. Readers of the books would know, but is not explained in the movie is exactly who Mooney, Wormtail, Padfoot and Prongs are. […]
Steyn has a short piece on Ronald Reagan, and this encounter sums up the 40th president aptly: One man who understood was Yakob Ravin, a Ukrainian émigré who in the summer of 1997 happened to be strolling with his grandson in Armand Hammer Park near Reagan’s California home. They happened to see the former President, […]
For those of you in San Diego, I encourage you to pick up a copy of today's Union-Tribune -- there's a special commemorative section on Reagan and a long retrospective. Ronald Reagan was the first president that I was really conscious of; I was 8-years-old when he took office. A good friend of mine in […]
I'm not sure I'll ever watch another Lethal Weapon movie again. Castro-loving actor/activist Danny Glover said the following today at an anti-war rally in Los Angeles. We all know Reagan's legacy, from the Iran-Contra affair to the funding of the Nicaraguan military in which over 200,000 people died. The groundwork for the move steadily to […]