Okay, let me make sure I have this right: the US Justice Department will be launching a criminal investigation into the apparent leaking of info about Bush’s double-secret-probation (and potentially illegal) spy op on American citizens on American soil to the NY Times, right? Good. And here’s hoping they employ the same full-discosure, whole-truth-at-any-cost full-court press tactics that we’ve seen

Okay, by now you’ve probably all seen that a NM judge lifted the restraining order against David Letterman. What I’d like to know is what in the name of Justice Thomas was going through that wingnut’s head to issue the order in the first place? Let’s review: Woman claims Dave has been sending her secret coded messages over the airwaves

‘I am a fascist, not a racist,’ [Paolo] Di Canio told the Italian news agency ANSA on Friday. ‘I give the straight arm salute because it is a salute from a ‘camerata’ to ‘camerati’,’ he said using the Italian words for members of the late dictator Benito Mussolini’s fascist movement. ‘The salute is aimed at my people. With the straight

Here’s wishing you a joyous Solstice, Christmas, Hanukkah, Ramadan, and Secular Shopping Season! View Solstice card – Sam, Angela & Ronan ____________________________ …it’s a lonesome thing to be passing small towns with the lights shining sideways when the night is down, or going in strange places with a dog nosing before you and a dog nosing behind, or drawn to

First, beastofbourbon passes on the news that a grand jury done gone upside Joe Nacchio’s head, indicting his corrupt ass for 42 counts of insider trading. A federal grand jury indictment, released today by prosecutors, accuses Nacchio of making 42 illegal trades of Qwest stock between Jan. 2, 2001, and May 29, 2001. The charges each carry a maximum penalty

There’s an editor at the Roanoke paper who is my new journalism hero.

You may have heard by now that Philly NAACP president J. Whyatt Mondesire played the Rush card on Eagles QB Donovan McNabb in a November 27 “editorial” in the Philadelphia Sun.

Went to see the Deacs and DePaul last night. If you saw the final score (84-81) do not be deceived – this game was nowhere near that close. Wake couldn’t have guarded a decent high school team. Gray has gone from being a really good shooting guard to being a utility player who alternates between being a bad point guard

I’ve had it. No more goddamned political correctness. From now on, give me that old-time religion. The real old time religion. It ain’t the “holiday” season, folks. No, by Goddess, it’s the solstice season. Just say no to people who deny the true reason for the season. Yule love the way it makes you feel.

Comedian Richard Pryor dies at 65 Saturday, December 10, 2005; Posted: 6:16 p.m. EST (23:16 GMT) (CNN) — Just days after his 65th birthday, groundbreaking comedian Richard Pryor died Saturday of a heart attack, his wife told CNN. I hope others have comments to add on this. ________________________ Richard Pryor was a performer who made it easier for a country

In my last post, I asserted that Bono is the John Lennon of the early- to mid-Gen X, and suggested that Kurt Cobain was sort of the late-Xer analogue. Nobody put up much of an argument about that, and it got me to thinking about how ungodly shallow music culture has gotten lately. So I’m wondering – who is the

When Lennon died, I really didn’t get it. I mean, I certainly knew who he was, and at an intellectual level I knew it was a big tragedy. But getting it in your head and getting it in your gut are different things, and I was young enough that The Beatles were more history than lived experience for me. When

No, seriously. How stupid are they? Here’s a hint, taken from a story on ABC’s choices to replace Peter Jennings: ABC is the second of the three main networks to decide its direction following the departure of the long-running anchor troika of Jennings, NBC’s Tom Brokaw and CBS’s Rather. CBS is reportedly actively seeking NBC’s Katie Couric as the replacement

Gary Barnett calls Mack Brown his “best friend in coaching.” Which leads us to the old cliché about “with friends like these, who needs enemies?” CU was badly overmatched, and Texas could have easily – easily – hung 100 on them if they’d felt like it. By the mid-point of the 3rd quarter the Horn offense was pretty much “put

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