The World Still Has Too Many Reporters
“What is actually dumber here… being a participant… or reporting on this like it’s a life-altering event?”
The Big List
“Many didn’t seem to display an understanding of feminist logic”
No, we fully understand feminist “logic”. I think the word she was searching for was “acceptance”.
Nonetheless, I’ll take it as a compliment.
What isn’t on display is an “understanding” that we have not granted women of the dysfunctional hard left permission to speak for anyone but themselves regarding so-called “women’s issues”.
And we sure as hell haven’t authorized their men to define them.
But here’s some good old-fashioned feminist advice, anyway.
If you’re a young woman who finds herself struggling with “gender equality”, you need to acquire three things – a calendar, a map, and a mirror.
In other words, if you’re falling short of your goals given the opportunities on offer in this time and place – maybe it’s you.
A “Get Smart” Movie Epiphany On The Bailout
(Speaking of which, if I had a nuke, I’d put it in a cardboard box instead of blowing up one of those expensive aluminum suitcases for no good reason. Kind of calls the whole “mastermind” assumption into question.)
Reader Tips
Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Twelve Days of Christmas shows and our regular Friday night old-time radio show, here are Mr. Bob Hope et al perforing his Christmas 1948 Bob Hope Show from Berlin, Germany, during the Air Lift (26:41). And for tonight’s flip-side, here are Mr. Milton Berle et al performing the Christmas 1947 Milton Berle Show (27:16).
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.
Dust My Broom
For those of you wondering where DMB has gone, Darcey advises that he’s in the process of changing hosting companies and should be up again in a couple of days.
Google Commemorative Logos You’ll Never See
That’s The Spirit
In recent weeks, police across the country have seen an uptick in the theft of trees from commercial lots. In Baytown, Tex., cops caught a man earlier this month trying to take several holiday trees off a lot. In Portland, Ore., police nabbed a man last week dragging a stolen tree down the street around 3 a.m. Officials in Hillsborough County, Fla., are investigating a Christmas tree crime spree, with more than 20 stolen from one lot owner alone.
‘Cause the nativity scenes will look naked without them.
Ha!
On the first day of Holiday, my true love stole for me…
One Nativi- tree…
If Oprah’s Ancestors Had Remained In Africa
Signs Of The Apocalypse
“Minnesota Sen. Norm Coleman’s lead over Al Franken has dropped to just two votes, after a canvassing board considered a pile of challenges.”
Reader Tips
Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Twelve Days of Christmas shows, here are the Bill Susman Trio performing Oh Christmas Tree (2005, 3:35). And for tonight’s flip-side, here is Mr. Mel Tormé performing Christmas Time is Here (3:49).
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.
“We live in an amazing, amazing world, and it’s wasted on the crappiest generation…”
(Trivia – When I first got on the net in 1999, I still had a rotary phone. Finally upgraded to touch-tone about two years later.)
Via Captain Capitalism
And Now For Something Completely Different
I’m starting to believe that corporations might just be evil after all…
“…an insult to all the queers and non-believers”
President-elect Obama chooses “eliminationist hate preacher Rick Warren to give the invocation at Obama’s Inaguration”
Our plan is falling into place…
Y2Kyoto: Death Valley Solar Photovoltaic Facility Dedication Event
“Because of the winter storm and several road closings in the area, the December 16, 2008 dedication of the solar photovoltaic system in Death Valley National Park has been cancelled.”
(Also postponed: What happens in Vegas and surfing in Malibu.)
The Sound Of Settled Science
“At first I didn’t believe it,” says THEMIS project scientist David Sibeck of the Goddard Space Flight Center. “This finding fundamentally alters our understanding of the solar wind-magnetosphere interaction.”
“Earth’s Magnetic Field Has Massive Breach – scientists baffled”
First we have the interplanetary magnetic field that took an abrupt dive in October 2005 and has not recovered since and remains at very low level:
Then we have the recent discovery that the ionosphere has dropped in altitude to unexpected and unexplained low levels.
We have a solar cycle 24 (driven by the solar magnetic dynamo) which can’t seem to get out of the starting gate, being a year late with forecasts for activity from it being revised again and again.
And finally we have this, this discovery that Earth’s magnetic field can be ripped open and our atmosphere laid bare to the solar wind, much like Mars.
Meanwhile, over at the Doomsday Shoe Media, reporters are scrambling to link this to SUV’s…
The Chicago Candidate
“The reporter who was chastised Tuesday by President-Elect Barack Obama for “wast[ing] a question” about Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich was none other than John McCormick, the Chicago Tribune’s deputy editorial page editor whom Blagojevich wanted fired from the Trib’s editorial board.”
Reader Tips
Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Twelve Days of Christmas shows, here is an old favourite of ours at SDA Late Nite Radio, the inimitable Miss Dolly Parton performing Smoky Mountain Christmas (2:03). And for tonight’s flip-side and for our friends even farther south, here is Mr. Louis Armstrong performing Christmas In New Orleans (3:02).
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.
What’s The Opposite Of Diversity?
To any experienced journalist there was always a strange subtext to the abrupt removal of Dr. Larry Reynolds from his posts as Head of the Department of Family Medicine and Professor at the University of Manitoba and Head of the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority’s Family Medicine Program. Something rang wrong in the alleged reasons his contracts were not renewed. And why he was given all of one month’s notice to clear out.
It took a while, but now we can reasonably conclude the real reasons he was axed. (Yes, we know, technically his contract was not renewed, but essentially he was dismissed from jobs he didn’t want to leave without an explanation.)
Watching the university launch a campaign of character assassination against Dr. Reynolds was one thing. But when they breached his legal rights to privacy by leaking bits of his personnel record, it was clear something was up.