Recently Mitch Albom was caught writing about things that never happened in the Detroit Free Press. He also used quotes and other information from newspapers, TV programs, and other sources without crediting the source. The newspaper conducted a lengthy investigation into the entire mess and ended up disciplining Albom and a couple of other writers [...]
Archive for May, 2005
Tuesday, May 17th, 2005
Apparently, George Lucas thinks George W. Bush is the current-day equivalent of Darth Vader: “In terms of evil, one of the original concepts was how does a democracy turn itself into a dictatorship,” Lucas told a news conference at Cannes, where his final episode had its world premiere. “The parallels between what we did in [...]
I recently had to install QuickTime to play some content from a blog I was visiting. When I went to the Apple download site to get it, I discovered that in order to get QuickTime, you also had to download iTunes. No problem, I thought, when I do the install, I’ll choose custom and then [...]
Looks like Andy Rooney, Dan Rather, Michael Moore and Oliver Stone have a new member for their conspiracy club: Keith Olbermann. Or would somebody rather play politics with this? The way Craig Crawford reconstructed it, this one went similarly to the way the Killian Memos story evolved at the White House. The news organization turns [...]
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Yet another example of why no one likes the French: PARIS: France’s media council has sharply reprimanded a private television channel for satirising Pope Benedict as “Adolf II” and saying he blessed Catholics “in the name of the Father, the Son and the Third Reich.” The Superior Audiovisual Council (CSA) warned Canal Plus that it [...]
…talking on cell phones while driving would be punishable by death in the public square by the most painful method possible. On my way home from work yesterday, fully 85% of the other drivers on the road had a cell phone welded to their ear. A lot of them had the phone in one hand [...]
PETA has long advertised itself as an organization that helps animals. Turns out, it kills approximately 78% of all animals that are located at its Norfolk, Virginia headquarters: From July 1998 through the end of 2003, PETA killed over 10,000 dogs, cats, and other “companion animals” — at its Norfolk, Virginia headquarters. That’s more than [...]
Exactly how bored would you have to be to come up with this idea? BANGKOK, May 10 (TNA) – The fashion among teenagers for injecting their penises with olive oil to boost their size could cause misshaped members and even permanent erections, the Director-General of the Department of Medical Services, Dr. Chatri Banchuin, warned today. [...]
As if anyone cares, Barbra Streisand is shooting off her mouth again regarding things which she knows little or nothing about: President Bush and the Religious Right’s greatest political weapon has been perpetuating fear. Because of the heightened climate of anxiety coupled with religious fervor, they have been successful in stripping Americans of their personal [...]
This award goes to Sploid: White Man Wins Basketball Award
Another reason to secure the borders: The Bush administration said yesterday that it would start paying hospitals and doctors for providing emergency care to illegal immigrants. The money, totaling $1 billion, will be available for services provided from today through September 2008. Congress provided the money as part of the 2003 law that expanded Medicare [...]
