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{ Monthly Archives } September 2004

Cameron Diaz’s Lunacy

The only thing missing from yesterday’s
“Voting Party” segment on Oprah was Lucy Liu. As they did in 2000, Cameron Diaz and Drew Barrymore made television appearances to promote the idea of getting out the vote (or else you die, apparently). Back in 2000, they appeared with Liu as well. I seem to recall that [...]

The New York Times: The I.P. Daily of American Journalism

I complained yesterday about the New York Times ad that claims they give you all the different angles of a story. Now, I’m hoping that the poor sap who had to write this interesting tale didn’t have to see it from…er…every angle.
This is why the Times coverage of technology will always be a laughingstock among [...]

Guns in the District

This one has been a long time coming for gun rights advocates. The House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved a bill to end the current gun ban in the District of Columbia. This move to allow citizens the freedom to arms themselves is already turning into the typical gun-rights-versus-gun-control circus, with some of the usual suspects [...]

Why I hate the New York Times.

I used to love reading the New York Times. Back in the old journalism school days, I believed then, as many do now, that the Times was the be-all and end-all of quality journalism. At one time in my life, I was also pretty liberal. Things change, even the Times. And I now have two [...]

Dems Switch Horses Late In Game

The new cartoon mascots for the 2006 Turin Winter Olympics were introduced to the public at a press conference yesterday in Rome.
In a surprising move, the Democratic National Committee announced that Neve and Glitz, the new Olympic mascots, would immediately replace John Kerry and John Edwards on the Democratic presidential ticket for the upcoming election.
The [...]

Orange Crush

An angry Marge Simpson fired out at presidential candidate Senator John Kerry today over his new orange skin tone.
Kerry’s campaign spokespersons claim the new coloring was the result of a touch football outing last week in Massachusetts.
Simpson, however, has other ideas. “He just plain stole my look,” the blue-haired television star complained today in between [...]

More winds blowing Florida: Hurricane Carter

You know, it’s bad enough have to put up with the destructive winds from natural forces such as the four hurricanes that hit Florida in the past two months. Now, another big blow is making its way across the state. The problem with this one is that there’s no long-range forecast and we’re not so [...]

Putting on the Ritz, Putting Up with Jeanne

You know there’s a potentially dangerous hurricane heading your way, one that will churn up the oceans and punch the land with high winds, torrential rain and possible structural damage. So, what do you do?
Head for the beach, of course.
Kelly and I had reservations at the Ritz Carlton Amelia Island this past weekend to celebrate [...]

Outside Looking In

I don’t know what I found more outrageous today — was it the whining, sniveling comments by John Kerry, made while Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi’s words still hung in the air over the Congress? Or was it the commentary of this man, published on the on-line site of an Egyptian news weekly?
I’m won’t even [...]

Here’s your fix.

I believe I’ve just discovered the next point of attack on the pajamadeen by the MSM: bloggers are all junkies.
That’s right. If you’re sitting out there reading this, you’re very likely hooked on Internet usage, according to a research study released by, of all organizations, Yahoo. Assisted by a marketing research company, they tracked people [...]

The Cat Stevens-El Kabong Connection

Washington, September 21, 2004 — Pop singer Cat Stevens, now a converted Muslim named Yusef Islam, was removed from a London-to-Washington flight today after his name was discovered on a government watch list. The flight was diverted to Maine, where Islam was taken into custody.
When questioned about the incident, an official at the Transportation Security [...]

They’re reading me at the Guardian. Woot!

Hey, I think I’ve made the big time.
I was browsing with vanity through my referral links this morning (or wading through the fake referrals from the liberal blogs, anyway) and discovered a link back to a page at the U.K. Guardian’s blog pages. Adam Jay decided to use a paragraph from this recent entry here [...]

Fox blockers?

I’ve never quite understood this claim that Fox New Channel is slanted to the right or that it’s the “conservative” news network. No matter how you look at it, Fox has done nothing more than try to balance their coverage, at least on their news shows. And by covering aspects of a story that other [...]

The Ketchman Defense

Here in Jacksonville, the official Jacksonville Jaguars web site is run by Vic Ketchman. Vic’s been around the NFL for a long time, having spent a couple of decades with the Steelers’ organization before coming to Jacksonville in 1995. In addition to acting as senior editor of the web site, Vic regularly appears on various [...]

No Christians, no scientists, and absolutely no monitors.

Just in case you didn’t know, there are actually folks in the military who don’t support President Bush.
At least, that’s what this article wants you to believe, but they fall a mile or so short of providing any convincing evidence. In fact, just as the author seems about to drop some revelation at your [...]

The Bush Doctrine, simplified for those fo you who still don’t get it.

The President addressed the United Nations General Assembly today. I believe his philosophy on the future of this planet is summed up pretty well in this paragraph:
In this young century, our world needs a new definition of security. Our security is not merely found in spheres of influence, or some balance of power. The security [...]

Kerry In Jacksonville

John Kerry will be making a campaign appearance in Jacksonville today at the Prime Osborne Convention Center. This visit will likely be a major letdown from the excitement of Sunday’s thrilling Jaguar victory over the Broncos.
So, what’s Our War Hero going to talk about at his “town hall” meeting? He’s allegedly going to tell [...]

More Hollywood backslapping

I didn’t watch the Emmy awards, but looking at the list of winners, I’ve come to some conclusions about what is necessary to win one of these television awards.

If your show is canceled, you will win many awards (Fraiser, Sex in the City)
If no one watches your show, it will win an award (Arrested Development)
If [...]

Steyn: The Hammer on the Nail

Since faking documents about the Bush Guard service backfired, and since John Kerry can’t maintain a position on anything, the new tact for the Left is to continuously point out how screwed up things are in Iraq. The press has tried doing this for nearly a year by focusing on the number of dead service [...]

This is from CBS, so it must be true.

The amount of influence that the weblog community had in breaking the faked Bush memo scandal simply cannot be understated. The MSM doesn’t want to admit that they were out scooped by a bunch of pajama-clad shut-ins pounding out this stuff in their bedrooms. (Actually, I’m sort of in my pajamas right now, but I [...]