STINGER ALERT AIRLINE SCANDALE FBI MANUEVER I am nervous enough about flying as it is, but the latest warning and footage on CNN this morning didn’t help ease my anxiety. I am off to a conference in Berlin later in the day, and so really didn’t need to see and hear what I did. The [...]
OZZIE FANS CHEER BUSH JET LAGGED MEDIA FEEDS GLOBALIZATION Important matters first. Nuclear war may be threatening between India and Pakistan, the US will likely be delaying its highly vaunted peace conference initiative for the Middle East and the FBI has announced a reorganization with its Director admitting that they coulda, woulda, shoulda done more [...]
BROKAW’S OUT OF HERE CONSPIRACIST COMPLAINTS AMNESTY REPORTS STOP THE PRESSES. Hold the Front Page, big news from the world of news, US news that is, is breaking. Today is a media anniversary. On 1912 on this day, fifteen young women who worked for the Curtis Publishing company were fired for dancing the “turkey trot” [...]
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