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NBC News reporter Michelle Kosinski wanted to dramatize the flooding in New Jersey brought about by seemingly never-ending rains, so she climbed into a canoe and rowed down a city street in Wayne, N.J. And then a couple of guys in hip-waders walked between Kosinski and the camera -- and revealed that the water was […]

I originally saw this during my blogging slowdown, and so I'm just catching up on it now. It is Aug. 31, and Sen. [Carole] Migden is lobbying on the Assembly floor for her bill, which would require cosmetics manufacturers to advise the state if their products contain cancer-causing ingredients. Migden's presence is typical. Senators routinely […]

Over at Mediacrity, a letter from New York Times public editor Byron Calame regarding the curious silence on Chuckaquiddick -- and the first reporting of it buried in a horse race story. Dear XXX: The editors said the story fell between the cracks, with one part of the paper assuming another part of the paper […]

Or rather, when he speaks it is torture. Former Vice President Al Gore said Wednesday he had no intention of ever running for president again, but he said the United States would be "a different country'' if he had won the 2000 election, launching into a scathing attack of the Bush administration. "I have absolutely […]

Travis County, Texas, District Attorney Ronnie Earle today issued a subpoena for various phone records of Rep. Tom Delay (R-Sugar Land), his daughter and his campaign office. I am not a lawyer, but don't you usually gather this sort of evidence before you indict someone? I don't think that DeLay has much to worry about.

Robert Jordan's latest book in the Wheel of Time series, "Knife of Dreams" came out today. Blogging will be sluggish until I can finish it. I first started reading this series when I was in college -- and the end is finally in sight. This is the penultimate installment. I'm approximately halfway through, and I […]

In light of last week's especially dishonest piece of journalism on Chuckaquiddick (the scandal surrounding two DSCC staffers' illegally acquiring a probable GOP senate candidate's credit report). I got to thinking about how Bill Keller's propaganda rag would have covered Tom DeLay's indictment in Texas if they leaned to the right as far as they […]

New York Times executive editor Bill Keller opened his mouth and again cut into the little remaining journalistic integrity his paper still possesses. At a conference in Phoenix, Keller lashed out at bloggers, Bill O'Reilly, Rush Limbaugh, The Wall Street Journal and anyone else who annoys him while laughably lauding his own work. Keller pointed […]

The New York Times tries, unsuccessfully, to give credence to the unctuous Juan Cole's suggestion that journalist Steven Vincent was part of an honor killing. If you read far enough into the Times article, you notice a couple of things that put the suggestion of an illicit affair to blame for Vincent's killing to rest. […]

But is it just me or if this guy had been a Republican, would this have Halliburton II?