The Washington Post, New York Daily News and Newsday are among a group of publications that refused to run The Boondocks last week. The series spoofed “The Apprentice,” with Russell Simmons hosting a new reality show called “Can a Nigga Get a Job?” Universal Press Syndicate gave papers the option of running the strip with the hyper-offensive “igg” replaced by

My baseball team back in Colorado, the Denver Bears, beat The Shack 5-2 to win the league championship yesterday. I got this e-mail from Shane, the team captain, just now: Hi Sammy, You’re RIGHT! Great game! It was 1-0 our favor going into the bottom of the fifth inning and the Shack scored 2 to make it 2-1 in favor

Jimmy Carter uncorked on Zell Miller in a letter pubbed in the Atlanta Journal Constitution recently. While I’m not overly impressed by the “loyal Democrat” litany at the top (I don’t much hold with the idea that you remain loyal to something if you believe it has gone to hell), the “had the decency to become Republicans” part is dead-on.

It’s a damned shame it’s gotten this ugly. (Thanks to Jim at Pulling Out the Savoy Truffle…..)

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Our legions are marching on the City of Rain, our bleeding bare feet, bone against concrete, tearing ruts in the King’s highway. We remember the lash and the hole. We remember Babylon Ballroom, silver trays of cheese and meats and candy liqueur, the splay of light tinkling wine-filled crystal, and later, hunched over our books and tearing at stale bread,

Here’s at least a piece of the puzzle, offered up by my friend Jennifer Angliss, who’d LIKE to keep being a teacher, if only the damned system would let her….:

1. I hear voices, Father. I hear choirs – sopranos and altos and tenors and bass, their thousand voices like angels praising me into Paradise. I can’t stop hearing their glorious voices commanding that I drown my daughters hold their heads beneath baptismal waters until they kick and spew forth the light of Heaven, float limp in the ecstasy of

In today’s NY Times: Barbarians at the Digital Gate — How spyware, a program that creeps onto a computer’s hard drive unannounced, is wrecking the Internet. The parasitic files that have beset Mr. Self and other frustrated computer users are known, in tech argot, as spyware and adware. The rapid proliferation of such programs has brought Internet use to a

From the Denver Post editorial page: “Lawyer-bashing is as old as the hills and as fashionable this election season as ever. So it comes as no surprise that leaders in both state political parties couldn’t keep a straight face when they received a letter from the Colorado Bar Association asking politicians to refrain from making disparaging remarks about lawyers and

Dr. Denny Wilkins, my esteemed colleague in the J/MC program here at SBU, sent this around a few minutes ago: Glimpse at the future looks neither fair nor balanced But the squall that took everybody by surprise isn’t named Ivan or Frances or Charley, and it had nothing to do with Dan Rather. It was Fox News Channel, which rolled

I don’t know koaloha, but she is my new hero. http://www.livejournal.com/users/koaloha/29646.html

So many of our friends have written to ask how we’re doing here in our new home. I would have answered all those queries before, but I feel like there’s so much to say and there has been SO little time. I’m working longer hours than I’ve ever worked over any kind of extended period, and I’m only half joking

Coroner finds nine drugs in Rick James’ system Cocaine, methamphetamine, valium and vicodin, to name a few. Then there’s this line: “His family attributed his death to natural causes…” Damn, I reckon so. Dying because you pumped all that into your system would be PERFECTLY natural. Sad….

The other day I posted my answer to a question posed by the Journalism/Mass Comm School here at St. Bonaventure. In a nutshell, all of us were asked what three things we think it’s essential that our students know when they graduate. The full list of faculty answers has now been compiled, and I thought I’d share it with you.