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Category: In the news
The future doesn’t need us
I happened across this encouraging tidbit while reading an accounting of 10 lesser-noted trends of 2003: 2. The U.S. began to massively export white-collar jobs. Despite the high productivity of America’s 130 million employed workers, companies of all kinds discovered…
Putdown of the day
Foes of a certain former governor are calling his henchpeople Deanie Weenies. (Something made me think, what’s going to happen when everybody starts calling them “Deanie Weenies,” so I put the words in Google and found out, yep, they already…
Just had an earthquake
Sitting here staring into my big terminal, which all the sudden starts weaving slightly back and forth. Word on TV is it was magnitude 6.5, based in south/central California. That’s strong enough to do major damage, but it sounds like…
Paris Hilton for prez?
Well, she’s already getting better ratings than the one we’ve got now. Come to think of it, what harm could it do to send Dubya to a farm in Arkansas for a month?
Talk about a scoop
The Virginian-Pilot tells how it broke the news of the Wright Brothers’ first successful attempt at powered flight. Even in 1903 the Wrights knew the value of manipulating the news: they wanted to give the exclusive to the paper back…
Hunter Thompson breaks a leg
In my quest to link every scrap of Hunter S. Thompson news I happen across, I share the following: He’s back in Colorado nursing the leg he broke when he slipped on the bathroom floor of a Hawaii hotel. Thompson…
Dreaming of Saddam
Seems Tim Russert had a dream about Saddam too. But he got to reveal his dream to George Tenet, director of the CIA.
Saddam caught
Now what? True story: Thursday night I had a dream in which I was in a large room with Saddam and George W. Bush. Seemed like it was a press conference. Saddam’s trying to be cute in a Gollum-like way;…
The Jessica Book
Rick Bragg’s narrative reviewed in the New York Times. Some reviewers have questioned whether, without the exploits initially attributed to her, there could be any power in Lynch’s narrative. (Though Bragg does not say so, the early error had a…