From a USA Today “opinion” piece by Marvin Kalb about Katie Couric’s first week at CBS News: “Her interviews with New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman and talk show host Rush Limbaugh catered to the far left and far right,…
“The fighting is extraordinarily intense. The intensity and ferocity of the fighting is far greater than in Iraq on a daily basis,” Brig. Ed Butler, the commander of British Forces in Afghanistan, told British ITV news. The quotation is from…
41 minutes and 42 seconds. That’s how long I stayed on hold with the office of Fulton County Tax Commissioner Arthur Ferdinand’s office before hanging up the phone. In that time, I probably could have seceded and built my own…
Who: Me What: A Judge Where: The Queen of the Strut pageant at Mary’s in East Atlanta — part of the East Atlanta Village Strut When: Sat, Sept 9, 2006 Why: Because Carmen asked me to and she has a…
I received the following e-mail this morning from a reader of Columbia, South Carolina’s Free Times, which runs my Don’t Panic column. The font, color, italics and stray apostrophes are in the original:Pieces written by a pile of Dog Shit…
As you read, listen and watch Hurricane Katrina anniversary coverage, you will hear several people imply or flat-out say that New Orleans was destroyed by a hurricane. It was not. The destruction of New Orleans was a man-made disaster. The…
Osama Bin Laden apparently has a thing for Whitney Houston. From today’s NYPost. I enlarged the best bits. Kola Boof, 37, the Sudanese poet and novelist who claims to have once been bin Laden’s sex slave, writes in her autobiography,…
“I just want to remind everyone that it’s what’s inside that really matters.” -Jessica Alba, upon receiving her “Choice Hottie” award at tonight’s Teen Choice awards. Runner-up stupid comment (so far): “This crowd just needs a little booze.” Pre-show host…
Two months ago, I wrote about someone else writing about how the U.S. government was making an anti-suicide bombing TV commercial for broadcast in Iraq. Here’s the commercial. Below is my original post on the subject: According to Newsweek, the…
