Alec Baldwin, a mediocre actor who I last enjoyed seeing in (whichever one he dies grotesquely in), has written an "insightful" piece over at the freak show that is the Huffington Post. All around us are signs of global climate change. And this administration's response is to send in more troops. If you don't think […]
It's stuff like this that convinces me that I'm much too intelligent to ever become an editorial writer. From the Chicago Tribune: No one theory explains why crime rates have declined in Illinois and around the country since the early 1990s. A decline in drug and alcohol abuse has been a welcome contributor. Community policing […]
I must confess that I never really knew his name, though I saw it just about every day. Iwao Takamoto, creator of my favorite childhood television show, "Scooby Doo, Where are you?" has died.
For much of the '80s and '90s, Tony Gwynn was the only reason to watch a San Diego Padres game. Today he was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame. Congratulations, Mr. Padre.
Science may have come up with a solution to the embryonic stem cell debate that allows for the creation and use of pluripotent stem cells without the ethical baggage that comes along with the destruction of human life. That's the good news. The bad news is that the media is still not as careful with […]
Comes to us from columnist Mark Steyn's latest column. As reported by the Journal, Mohamed Mimoun grabbed his sheep, took a number and realized he was in for a two-hour wait. Even worse, en route to the slaughterhouse, he was stopped by a cop and fined for having the sheep in the trunk of his […]
You can see video of NBC reporter Andrea Mitchell on Friday night's "The O'Reilly Factor" here. I watched the video on my DVR Saturday night and I must say that the two quotes highlighted by Mark Finkelstein over at Newsbusters doesn't really do the video justice. Mitchell on Chris Matthews: "I don't think he's a […]
I wrote last week that the New York Times was guilty of journalistic malpractice. Behind-the-scenes efforts by anti-abortion advocates and even its own public editor, Byron Calame, failed to remind the paper's editors about those antiquated ideas of honesty and accuracy. However, the full light of public scorn that comes with an article in The […]
So, I haven't been writing as much because I've been catching up on some TV watching. A couple of people at work finally got me hooked on the TV show "Veronica Mars" and I've been making my way through the DVDs of the first two seasons before catching up on the current season. I should […]
There's word that Iraq's most wanted police captain may have been found -- no thanks to the Associated Press. Read all the details here. Now the real fact-checking can begin.