"Fox News Watch" yesterday had the panelists passing out their "Turkey Awards." Two of the "honorees" were amusing -- not so much because of who the honoree was, but for what the logic behind the nomination was. American University's Jane Hall -- who we last spied demonstrating her ignorance on how the appellate courts worked […]
The Cal Poly Mustangs marked two firsts yesterday. They notched their first Division I-AA playoff victory and their first ever win over Montana. Cal Poly will face #4 seed Texas State in San Marcos, Texas, Saturday afternoon. Go Mustangs!
I'm watching the broadcast of the Cal Poly-Montana game over the Internet. It's not great quality -- think bad color reception -- but the real annoying thing is the Internet broadcast's tendency to run scoreboard graphics instead of the beginnings of the plays. If you're lucky you may see the beginning of the play on […]
I've said before that journalists shouldn't simply sit there and write uncritically about whatever a powerful official or special interest group wants. Well, I'm afriad that today's Union-Tribune has an example of journalists doing just that. I'd like to preface the rest of this post by pointing out that I do work at the Union-Tribune […]
You've got to love this story crying out for an editor. Bear shot by hunter bites back, dies Hunter: Two bear bites, one to bone, leave him 'a little sore' HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania (AP) -- A black bear bit and clawed a hunter who had just shot it four times in what game authorities said appeared […]
So, I got up this morning shortly before the crack of noon and headed over to GameCrazy to pick up a video game that they had on sale -- 50 percent off. It's not at all busy, but I walk in and ask for the game. The clerk gets it off the shelf, turns around, […]
I got an e-mail earlier this week from a reader about a CNN article that was a basically a rewrite of this article from National Journal. The Powerline guys quickly ripped the revisionist-history hit-job and their readers made the key points succinctly. Readers Malcolm Jones and John Steele add a more basic point. Jones writes: […]
I'd apologize for the lack of posting, but ... well, the headline says it all. I hope that everyone had a great Thanksgiving day. If you missed it on Wednesday, I wanted to point to this little bit of unintentional hilarity that comes to us courtesy of The Washington Post's Dan Froomkin (via Taranto). In […]
You don't really need to read past the first paragraph. A suspected drunken driver fumbling his ABCs turned to police asking if he could substitute with a math problem. Police refused -- apparently language skills are more difficult to master while inebriated than math skills. Yeah. That's the story that this journalist is going to […]