I was one of those who believed there was no Deep Throat — that Woodward and Bernstein simply made Deep Throat up out of a composite. But it turns out W. Mark Felt was Deep Throat. The weird thing is that Felt apparently kept his secret because he believed that Deep Throat was perceived as…
May, 2005
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After Newsweek’s debacle about the Koran-in-the-toilet incident, Glenn Reynolds wrote an article about what the incident meant for the mainstream media in general. But what does it mean for blogging, in general, when Reynolds himself uses sourcing methods that make Newsweek’s look like the gold standard of journalism. I’m referring to this Instapundit post, JOE…
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Little Green Footballs notes that a Memri transcript has an idiot from Newsweek appearing on Al Jazeera after to effectively whitewash its retraction of its story claiming that interrogators at Guantanamo Bay flushed a Koran down a toilet, Host: But there is no proof that it did not happen either… [NewsweekÂ’s Washington Bureau Chief Daniel…
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For the past couple months I have been very distracted and not keeping all of my websites updated because my grandmother has been in and out of the hospital for most of the year. My father died about 15 years ago, followed by my grandfather, leaving my brother and I the only close relatives she…
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Bill Maher recently dissed the American military by alluding to the reported problems the Army and other branches have had recently in meeting their recruiting goals, More people joined the Michael Jackson fan club [than the military].We’ve done picked all the low-lying Lynndie England fruit, and now we need warm bodies. My biggest problem with…
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Ran across this story about the Brooklyn College Sociology’s Department electing Timothy Shortell as its chair. Shortell has a number of defects, but the one I’m interested in here is that he is one of these annoying fundamentalist atheists that I’ve talked about previously. The sound bite being repeated is that Shortell referred to religious…
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Funniest thing I read this week courtsey of the student newspaper at the university I work at, The original Earth Day celebrations for April 23, which were canceled due to snow and freezing temperatures, have been rescheduled for Saturday, May 21. Still has me laughing out loud. Source: Earth Day to raise fair trade awareness.…
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This may seem like an odd thing to say, but I’ve always been a huge fan of the Star Wars universe, if not the Star Wars films. I saw all of the first three films when they came out as a kid and, of course, had all the action figures, the ships, the playsets, the…
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Rocky Anderson, 24, recently plead guilty to kill a 10 year old boy while he was driving while intoxicated. The judge is apparently proud of this creative sentence, A man who admitted to driving drunk when he hit and killed a 10-year-old boy was sentenced to spend Christmas Day, New Year’s Day and the child’s…
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According to this ABC News story about the ongoing controversy over filibustering of judges, The filibuster has been used historically by the minority party, which can’t win with a vote count. Democrats have opposed the filibuster before — in the 1960s, they accused Republicans of using it to block civil rights legislation. According to the…