January 17, 2011
Your laugh for the day

Clairvoyant Fail I still prefer this Deepak Chopra one.

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January 11, 2011
Empty gestures

We’ve truly come together as a nation in the wake of last weekend’s tragic shooting that left 6 dead and Rep. Gabrielle Giffords  and others wounded with some bipartisan stupidity on the part of lawmakers. Let’s remember that Jared Loughner, the accused shooter, is a nut. He is not an angry, enraged partisan. He is […]

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January 5, 2011
Honoring a bigot

The Society for Professional Journalists is considering whether or not to remove notorious anti-Semite Helen Thomas’ name from the organization’s Lifetime Achievement Award at its executive committee meeting this weekend. The SPJ’s magazine, Quill, has published pro and con letters on the subject and I wanted to draw attention to Lloyd Weston’s defense of keeping […]

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December 16, 2010
Where’s Children’s Services?

McDonald’s is being sued. A California woman is suing McDonald's claiming the fast-food giant uses toys to market directly to young children. Monet Parham, a Sacramento, California, mother of two small children filed the lawsuit Wednesday in San Francisco along with health, nutrition and food safety advocates Center for Science in the Public Interest . […]

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November 6, 2010
Dangers of punditry

Maybe it’s because some of them appear on so many TV shows for far too many minutes. But lots of pundits just can’t stop the stupid.   She [Sarah Palin] did have a pretty good night, and I certainly defend her, and anybody, endorsing a candidate not on the pragmatic grounds that they are going […]

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November 1, 2010
It’s like “Jay-walking” only better

Morons at Saturday’s “Rally for Sanity”.

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November 1, 2010
Not a conspiracy

Late Saturday night a story broke in the Alaska Senate race about some reporters at the Alaska CBS affiliate KTVA suggesting that there would be a child molester at a rally for Republican nominee Joe Miller or maybe a fight. The audio was obtained after a KTVA staffer failed to successfully hang up the phone […]

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November 1, 2010
Journalism 101

If you turned in this article in Professor Hoy’s journalism 101 class, you’d get an F. Single-payer coverage sought by doctors The government is the only insurance provider in such a system, touted by some local physicians By Bob Cuddy | [email protected] These are gloomy days for those who believe President Barack Obama’s health care […]

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October 28, 2010
Vote Yes on Prop. 23

Proposition 23 in California will suspend the state’s global warming law until the state unemployment rate falls below 5.5% for 4 consecutive quarters. The one thing you don’t want to be doing in this economic environment is raising costs on consumers and businesses. (For the record: The stupid law ought to be repealed wholesale, but […]

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October 12, 2010
Videos of the day

First, we have the Democratic Senate candidate from South Carolina, Alvin Greene. The only thing funnier than O’Donnell’s ridiculous questions are Greene’s ridiculous answers. You want some evidence the media leans left? Greene has received just a fraction of the attention for his wackiness that Christine O’Donnell has.   Last week there was a big hubbub […]

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