Charles Osgood, the host of CBS’s Sunday Morning Show, is a member of and donor to The Nature Conservancy. For the uninitiated, working journalists should not be members of organizations that attempt to shape public policy. The Nature Conservancy does just that. It favors increasing the amount of wetland. The Nature Conservancy is no Greenpeace. [...]

Some GOP members of Congress recently sent letters to the Public Broadcasting Service that stressed their objections to the introduction on Sesame Street of a new Muppet character who happens to have HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. Thay worry that kids at that age are too young to be presented with such informaiton. What [...]

Ariana Huffington gives George W. some hell over his handling of the Harkengate matter.
“If Bush were serious about sobering up corporate America, he would go cold turkey. That means, for starters: supporting the Sarbanes bill just passed by the Senate; authorizing the SEC to release all documents connected to his Harken deal; demanding the resignation [...]

Eric Alterman in the Nation takes Cokie Roberts to task for her general lack of reporting skills and conventional punditry. Cokie is simply a lousy journalist. Of course, Cokie’s work as a reporter-turned-pundid for National Public Radio doesn’t make her popular with the right-wing nutcases. Rodger Schultz, of course, takes Alterman to task for criticizing [...]

George W. could have elected pope after the Sept. 11 attacks. But Americans are finicky people. Only a fool tries to predict the outcome of an election more than two years away, but things aren’t looking too good for Bush right now. But then, we must remember that Bush is not the people’s choice in [...]

Double Click Dailies has a good take on Ann Coulter, the sexy-as-all-Hell Democrat basher who can’t get her facts straight. What is it with conservatives anyway? Don’t they have any issue as important to them as whether there are too many so-called liberals in the media? Rodger Schultz, as usual, comes to her defense. The [...]

… Former Nixon staffer (and current Nixon apologist) Ben Stein is actually a pretty decent guy. He is a sentimentalist at heart, but he also retains a strong pro-capitalistic streak. In Monday Night at Mortons, he writes about life as a “A-list” celebrity (l’d rate him a B+, byt why quibble?) for E! Online. His [...]

George W. Bush lost the popular vote in the general election. There was no clear winner of the Electoral College vote. The GOP desperately needed to not only get the courts to rule in their favor on all recount issues, they needed to stop votes in areas of Florida where they might lose. This wasn’t [...]

In “Whose Side Is Bush On?“, Jonathan Alter makes a lucid point about the greed of the ’90s. Now, as a capitalist and lower-case “L” libertarian, I believe greed is good. But honesty is important too. Alter writes: “This corporate greed thing is big. How big? Well, did you know that roughly one third of [...]

Has it ever occured to anyone that it’s not the %&$*ing government’s job to prop up the stock market? It is govenrnment’s job to provide a basic framework and establish what behaviors are crimes and punish those who committ them. Why should the president take to the airwaves and reassure the public that the market [...]

This minister was conducting church-authorized scholarly research, yet ended up in hot water anyway because of unyielding prosecutors. Luckilly, things worked out.
pornography

… you think that the economy is a zero-sum game.
… you think that the only reason socialism hasn’t worked is because the right people haven’t done it yet.
… you think that welfare has failed because we haven’t spent enough money on it yet.
Just to name of few of the great lines.
liberals,you might be liberal if

Congratulations, Peoria City Council. Your hard work to eliminate fun of any kind is appreciated at the Dumb Laws Web site. Visitors will have to scroll down and see what is listed for Peoria.
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Dave Barry, is a great columnist for the Miami Herald. I found this column on the trouble newspapers have
attracting readers to be especially funny, perhaps because I find myself wondering how to do just that every week.
Dave Berry,newspapers,newspaper readers

I found several references to a William Dennis Of Orleigh during my search for my namesake. He was the sheriff of Devon, and the coat-of-arms may refer to that title. The site where I found this information did not really give much information about him, other than he lived in the 15th (and maybe the [...]