Year: 2006

Bengals v. Steelers v. Colts

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Mike Kremzar, whomever he may be, appears to be so bitter over the Steelers 31-17 wild-card playoff win Sunday over the Cincinnati Bengals that he is complaining to me. While I was born and raised in Pittsburgh, and of course ...

The Commons Blog: Protecting Nessie

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"I am sorry to bother you with an inquiry which will no doubt be greeted at first glance with gales of laughter." So began an official British inter-governmental inquiry into how to protect Nessie, the Loch Ness Monster, should she ...

Global Warming Research Not Too Hot

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The New York Times examines "quirky tools" used to educate the public on global warming. Gotta admit the heat-sensitive coffee mug is a cute idea -- but, as the New York Times story itself notes, the research that went into ...

New York Times a Criminal Organization?

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If top editors and reporters of the New York Times were to be convicted and sent to a federal penitentiary, as the lawyers writing at Power Line speculate could happen, would that make the New York Times a criminal organization? ...

Regret The Error: Miner Story Corrections

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The often-hilarious Regret The Error blog, which reprints corrections from newspapers, has a post up January 6 revealing how various publications explained misreporting the miner story to their readers ...

Equal Number of Complaints Dodge is My Media Pet Peeve Number One

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One of my top media pet peeves is when a journalist explains away criticism by saying something along these lines: "We got an equal number of complaints from liberals and conservatives, so we aren't concerned." Think again, dweebo. It may ...

Global Warming Meets Genealogy: A Post for a Saturday Night

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Hat tipped by this interesting post on global warming on The Political Dogs blog, I ran into this detailed post also on global warming on the Fundamentally Right blog. Whereupon, I saw that the proprietor of Fundamentally Right is descended ...

Black Activists Demand Congressional Black Caucus Release Katrina Aid; CBC Foundation Admits Holding Back Money Raised as Early as September

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Citing the hypocrisy of Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) members in criticizing federal relief efforts in the wake of Hurricane Katrina while their own nonprofit foundation held onto hundreds of thousands of dollars of corporate donations intended for rebuilding the shattered ...

Herbs and Shrubs Abandon Schwarzenegger?

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A John M. Broder January 6 New York Times article contains this: Mr. Schwarzenegger used the speech to propose policies intended to appeal to working families and moderate voters, who all but abandoned him last year as he pursued a ...

Washington Post Radio

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Proving once again that it is comfortable with letting its writers pontificate without the intervention of fact-checkers and editors, the Washington Post announces the creation of a Washington Post radio station, which it will use to promote itself ...

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