Archive for August 23rd, 2009
Late Night Video: Beyonce’s Single Ladies Spoof
This spoof by Nic Billington of Beyonce’s Single Ladies is great. Here’s a link to Beyonce’s video if you’ve never seen it, but trust me, you don’t need to watch it. Goth’s dancing to Beyonce is enough for anyone. h/t Randy Thomas.
Around the Horn Sunday
The News Journal says our blogosphere is small. I dunno, for our state’s size, there are a lot of good writers out there with a variety of opinions, some good, some horribly misguided. I see that every week in compiling this column. And a lot of people in these blogs are doing the work the […]
Bill Maher Covers the Health Insurance Debate
Smart, funny and some of the language is NSFW. Dana Gould really hits the heart of what passes for the debate on this right now — lots of yelling a spittle on whatever the wingnut fear and resentments are and then there are the people just trying to take care of themselves.
If Loving Bush Was Wrong, Marc Ambinder Doesn’t Want To Be Right
Journalist Marc Ambinder reacts to the news that Tom Ridge admitted to politicizing terror alerts by giving the DFHs (the people who were right about Bush) another kick. The news this morning that former Department of Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge believed that President Bush and his top advisers manipulated the terror threat alert system […]
Read All About It In the Sunday Papers-Aug. 23 Edition
LEAD STORY-Miami Herald: How Cyberthief Committed ‘Heist of the Century’ Nobody does crime reporting like the Miami Herald does crime reporting. Albert Gonzalez stole to his heart’s content, while on the Secret Service payroll. What happens when snitches go terriblyterribly wrong: On May 7, 2008, federal agents swept through Miami-Dade looking for evidence that one […]
President Obama Highlights a Favorite Cause of Bloggers
At his Town Hall at the DNC the other day, President Obama took notice of how dysfunctional the media’s role has become:
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