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Microsoft and Acer collaborated to send review PCs loaded with Windows Vista to certain bloggers which they can keep, gift to readers (yeah, right) or return to Microsoft (yeah, right, right). Just a note to the Microsoft marketing team: I can be bought. Cheap.

ESPN's Bill Simmons lists some presents that should be given out for Christmas and I would like to echo #5: 5. Five HDTV trucks and accompanying camera equipment Note: That's just for CBS. (Seriously, CBS, you're a major television network. Move into the 21st century and show all of your football games in HDTV. It's […]

Jon Henke over at QandO went slogging through the sewers over at conspiracy nut (how's that natural gas pipeline in Afghanistan going?) and hater/cartoonist Ted Rall's site and came up with this gem. [You might have to scroll down, the permalinks don't appear to be working.] A reader responding to my column "When is a […]

Just to make sure the Earth was still spinning properly on its axis I poked my head in over at DailyKos to see what the nutjob left take on the death of President Gerald R. Ford was. There are a few thoughtful posts. There are a few serious, well-crafted analyses of Ford's pardon of Nixon […]

McClatchy -- a company that owns numerous newspapers nationwide -- yesterday sold the Minneapolis Star-Tribune for $530 million. What's scary for anyone working in newspapers today (read: me) is the fact that McClatchy bought the paper in 1998 for $1.2 billion. How in the h-e-double hockeysticks does a newspaper drop more than 50 percent in […]

The Democrat Party, old media and a plethora of pundits have been decrying for years the commonly held, but incorrect, belief that Iraq had something to do with the 9/11 terror attacks. President Bush has been accused of perpetuating this falsehood because he'll say something about terrorism in the same speech that he says something […]

The only person in U.S. history who served as both president and vice president without having been elected to either post, Gerald R. Ford, died today at 93. Rest in peace.

The Los Angeles Times reported last week that federal Judge Manuel L. Real (about whom I wrote about here) that a judicial discipline council has recommended that he reprimanded. That's the least the council could do. More needs to be done, he needs to be impeached.

An ombudsman is also occassionally knowns as the "reader's representative," they are someone in newspaper newsrooms who is the first contact for the public and is not supposed to be wedded to the company line. Unfortunately, it appears Washington Post ombudsman Deborah Howell has abdicated this duty to the readers first, the paper second. The […]

For the past decade it's become a trite saying: What Would Jesus Do? Christians of all stripes have had bracelets or necklaces or other adornments with the "W.W.J.D.?" on them. Unfortunately, for too many people, Jesus' position on any given issue just happens to coincide with what the bracelet's wearer would like to do. This […]