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There was quite a bit of brouhaha last week when computer science grad student Virgil Griffith created a program which allowed users to correlate changes made to wikipedia and who owns the computer which made the changes. For the left side of the blogosphere, the outrage was directed towards corporations like Wal-Mart that edited their […]

No one should be surprised. When presidential adviser Karl Rove announced last week that he would be leaving at the end of August, people attending the news (not editorial board) meeting of the Seattle Times cheered. Don't think that this was the only newsroom where this sort of thing happened. It may not have happened […]

Richard Paey is serving a 25 year sentence in Florida for possessing 100 Percocet pills which he used to dull the chronic pain with which he lives. Two years into Paey's 25 year sentence you could see his feet twisted, his hands trembling and his body failing. An old car accident ruined his spine and […]

If there really are two Americas, John Edwards lives in the one that you and I aren't allowed in. This story's a little stale, but it's illustrative of a larger point that you don't want to lose sight of: Whether they're liberal or conservative, every single person running for president is "a better person" than […]

For those of you who haven't been following The New Repbulic's "Shock Troops" fiasco closely. When last we left what was once a semi-respected political magazine, they claimed their man in Baghdad was being prevented from contacting them because of the Army's investigation. This past weekend, The Weekly Standard was able to confirm that that […]

A few weeks ago I mentioned the case of two seventh-grade boys who were charged with 10 sex crimes for slapping girls on the butt -- including five which, if they were convicted, would require them to register as sex offenders. After tons of outrage, five felony sex abuse charges were first reduced to misdemeanors […]

The New York Observer called CBS "newsman" Bill Plante to ask him about his comment after the announcement of the departure of Karl Rove (which I lambasted earlier, with video): "If he’s so smart, how come you lost Congress?" Plante's explanation: Reached by phone at his home in Washington D.C. on Monday night, Mr. Plante […]

I took Democrat senator and presidential aspiriant Barack Obama to task yesterday for running his mouth without first checking with his brain. If you will recall, Obama said: We've got to get the job done there and that requires us to have enough troops so that we're not just air-raiding villages and killing civilians, which […]

The sad thing is, I could probably write a roundup of idiocy by journalists far and wide just about every day -- certainly every week. First, CBS News' White House correspondent channels his inner jerk: You have to listen carefully, but Plante's question can be made out: "If he's so smart, how come you lost […]

Don Imus, a jerk, is getting sued by one of the Rutgers University women's basketball players because he ruined her good name. If you can name any Rutgers University women's basketball player -- past or present -- then your daughter plays on the team. This is silliness.