“Boy, this hand lotion sure is cold …”

But Midwest Pundits has a
funny post .
Saddle up.

Just for the heck of it, I’m bringing back *Newsbytes*, a segment in
which I post links from Peoria media Websites. The links are posted in
now particular order and are chosen on my whim. My whim being that the
links be about Peoria news, not Bloomington, Bartonville, Morton, Dunlap
or any stupid suburb.
*WHOI:*
? Cut Phones Causing Problems

? Farmer’s […]

Yesterday, the Journal Star’s Jennifer Davis reported that City Council member Chuck Grayeb is annoyed at being left out of secret meetings with
Peoria Civic Center board members in which the use of hotel, restaurant and amusement taxes would be used to “save” two downtown businesses.
Today, Mayor David Ransburg denies the story … sort of. He […]

/”Bush cost me my job, my kids and my houses
“Thank you for giving me the opportunity to speak my mind. I lost my job
this past year. When Clinton was president I was secure and prosperous,
but in the last year, we had to close our operations. We simply could
not compete with foreign labor. This foreign labor […]

I hear from my friend/co-worker Alex
that the word “Peoria” translates into the word “portal” in several
Basque dialects.
So, when Basques visited my site looking for Alex’s guest post
about the Basque
nation, many were thrilled to have discovered a Basque-language version
of Yahoo or MSN.
Instead, they found a 40-year-old former journalist’s rantings and
rumblings about his small, midwestern […]

I’m just too doggone busy.
I’ll have something on Saturday.
Thanks for stopping by …
… you know, if I had a co-blogger, this wouldn’t happen.

Dispatch from the Star Chamber
? Grayeb wants openness in Downtown discussions

/Private meetings between Mayor Dave Ransburg and select Civic
Center Authority members about using taxpayer dollars to somehow aid
two private historic Downtown businesses aren’t illegal, but it
looks bad, says at-large […]

Jeff Jarvis has this to say
about the the
Hutton report
,
which blames BBC reporter Andrew Gilligan for essentially making up
facts that supported his belief that Britain had no business going to
war in Iraq:
/But the more I saw of Gilligan, as a symptom of the disease, and
the more I […]

The Community Word , that
is. The City of Peoria’s only locally-owned general interest newspaper
has hit the streets. It contains two pieces written by yours truly.
? The Referendum on Future Elections in Peoria: How Will You Vote?
; as well as
? City Beat: Mea Culpa
Roger Monroe also has a few things to say
about local politics
and […]

There’s a lot of criticism of Al Franken for tackling a heckler at a
Howard Dean event. The theme is that Franken violated the poor soul’s
1st Amendment rights. I’ve seen posts to that effect at Curmudgeonly &
Skeptical , Cut on the
Bias ,
Blogosferics
and North
Georgia Dogma
.
With all due respects: Bull.
The Dean people organized the event — probably […]

It’s official: Marlena Evans is the Salem Serial Killer. It must be
true, ’cause today’s episode is the scheduled big reveal.
Huh? She’s the star of the show! She’s the one who always gets kidnapped
and has to be rescued? She’s the one who constantly prods the other
castmates to do the right thing!
So, how will Days of Our […]

Tuesday Twelve
Every Tuesday, my day off, I get in my brand new used 1991 Chevy Lumina
and hit Interstate 74 and begin a quest for wit and wisdom in the real
world. I get about about halfway to Bloomington when I realize there
isn’t any. I turn around and head for home and my DSL connection so I
can […]

For about an hour. I just got the word.
That’s why you are not able to read my blog right now. I wanted to get
this posted so people would know why the site wouldn’t load.
Why do I feel like Les Nessman getting on the air to announce that WKRP
was off the air?

Phil Coons has removed the
Howard Dean button from his blog.
So that explains the piercing, agonized scream heard today coming from
New Hampshire …