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All the news I feel like posting, when the mood strikes me, or when a news event grabs the attention of my obtuse, twisted mind, and I can think of a relevant, or witty, or sarcastic, or skeptical, or off-color, or paranoid comment to attach to the headline/blurb.

j jackson, editor-at-large
(nope. they haven't caught me yet.)

Saturday, August 30, 2003 / 01:32:49 PM

BORDER DISLOGIC
"The Saudi government challenged the Bush administration Tuesday to prove its claims that Saudi citizens have traveled to Iraq to fight American troops, and said U.S. forces have failed to secure their side of the border." [Yahoo] {If no one's going there, then why do there have to be secure borders?}

MMMM. TASTY.
A Massachusetts' man is sentenced to eighteen months for sneaking up behind a woman in grocery market and licking her feet and toes. {Now, c'mon. Even though it was his third offense, I mean, eighteen months? No wonder there's a crisis in prison space. Couldn't they have sentenced him to do community service in a shoe store or something while wearing a muzzle to prevent him from licking women's feet? What better punishment than that?}



Tuesday, August 26, 2003 / 12:31:46 PM

THE LIBERAL PRESS MYTH
We [journalists] reached our intellectual adulthood with daily close-ups of the inequality in a nation that was founded on the commitment to equality for all. So we are inclined to side with the powerless rather than the powerful. If that is what makes us liberals so be it, just as long as . . . we adhere to the first ideals of good journalism. (Walter Cronkite) [Salt Lake Tribune] {But now, a growing number of journalists are siding with the powerful, belying the waning "truth" that journalists are liberal, turning it into just another urban myth and undermining the tenets of "good journalism."}



Monday, August 18, 2003 / 11:51:07 AM

BY ANY OTHER NAME
"Joe Lieberman is on the presidential campaign trail, embracing his inner centrist. Wherever he goes, he calls himself "an independent-minded Democrat." His rivals, he says, are big spenders, weak on defense - or both." [USA Today] {Independent-minded Democrat? Yeah. In these here parts we call that a moderate Republican.}



Friday, August 08, 2003 / 12:45:27 AM

MEXICAN FOOD
A trained hawk, used by the Parks Dept. in NYC as a control for pigeons, attacked a Chihuahua in Bryant Park and sunk talons into it. Bystanders separated the animals and the owner hustled it off to a vet. A park falconer said "I sincerely believe the bird mistook it for a rat because it was in the shrubbery." As a result of this incident officials have put the hawk program on hold. {Oh. c'mon now. What's the big deal? A Chihuahua is nothing more than a big rat anyway.}



Tuesday, August 05, 2003 / 06:28:31 AM

A MAN OF THE PEOPLE
Former Gov. Howard Dean will attend the court appearance of his teenage son today on charges he was one of several teens involved in a scheme to break into a country club and steal alcohol. [Barre Montpelier Times Argus] {Yep. He's a man of the people all right.}

DEAD DOG WALKING
"Amid talk he's being urged to jump back into the presidential race, Al Gore has arranged to speak out on Iraq to a large anti-war group at New York University on Thursday. (NY Post) {Oh, God. Ain't that dog dead yet?}

DEADLY FAT
The RAC Foundation announces that if you're fat, you're chances of being killed or injured in a car accident are double that of thin people, for three reasons: overweight people are more likely to fall asleep while driving; they are harder to rescue; and car design does not favor heavier drivers. The article quotes Edmund King, executive director, as saying "Generally, it would be fair to say that it comes down to the survival of the fittest as fitter occupants are more likely to survive a crash." [BBC]{Yeah, well, it is a matter of survival of the fittest, but that's not what the scientific theory is about.That's the wrong kind of fitness. Anyway, who cares? Maybe it's just "nature's" way of telling us something's wrong. If you're fat, you don't need to worry so much about car accidents; you should start worrying more about your general health.}

CARING SLEAZE
"Calling himself a 'smut peddler who cares,' porn king Larry Flynt on Monday formally announced his bid for California governor but acknowledged that voters might not be able to stomach his sleazy background." [Yahoo] {I don't mind. I'd vote for him. Hey, Larry. Need a campaign worker? E-mail me.}





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