… by pointing out this “>story:
The strangest aspect of the Matthew Hale case — one that many media reports yesterday either glossed over or completely misrepresented– is that the white supremacist leader was convicted of soliciting the murder a federal judge who had ruled in his favor.
Zorn is absolutely right. The judge Hale was convicting [...]

? The Tech: Tech Independent Critic Impeached, EIC Resigns

/Following a three-week-long internal dispute among managing board
members concerning the role of the ombudsman at The Tech, Brian Loux
?04, the Editor in Chief of The Tech, resigned last Friday, and John
A. [...]

http://peoriapundit.com/images/anorexicchick.jpg
Yeah, I gotta get together with /her/. Although, I am concerned she
might break on contact.
I’d have to buy her a sandwich first, though. What happened, was she
stranded on a dessert island without food for two weeks? Did the people
who rescued her rush to the catwalk?
Women, listen to me: THIS IS NOT ATTRACTIVE! Eat a cheeseburger [...]

The death of columnist Mary McGrory prompted these comments
on recent
cases of journalists exposed as plagiarists:
/How does this happen? For all the human reasons: greed, fear, lust
for promotion, eagerness to do what the boss wants, faster, and on
the cheap. Chains and conglomerates increased [...]

A quick after-hours review of Yahoo News found these pics:
http://peoriapundit.com/images/scarlett.jpg
We took a poll at work and decided that this young actress, Scarlett
Johansson, is one of the hottest around. Not a typical bunny type, she’s
got one of those faces — and a very nice bod — that draws guys’ attention.
http://peoriapundit.com/images/bpeters.jpg
Quick! Name one movie, besides “The Jerk,” [...]

Via Tom Mangan , I came across
this link:
The Iraq Reader: Bloggers are editors, not journalists

Ack! I have always maintained that editors — especially copy editors –
are Xacto-wielding pig dogs. But I am a blogger, and if bloggers are
editors, then I am an …
I can’t even say the words. I love blogging because I have no [...]

http://peoriapundit.com/images/racistprick.jpg
A jury has found Matt Hale guilty

of trying to solicit the murder of the judge had ruled against the World
Church of the Creator. More as this story develops.
*UPDATE:*
/White supremacist leader Matthew Hale, whose gospel of “racial holy
war” was linked to a follower’s deadly shooting rampage five years
[...]

The number of visitors has jumped this week. I think it was the “smelly
hippy” stuff, and the articles about the BBC. I’m always glad to see
more visitors than usual. I’ll admit it: I’m a link whore. I want as
many hits as possible. SondraK’s linkage
brought in a bunch of visitors.
It’s funny, because I really haven’t [...]

? BBC: Kuwait sex-change case upheld

/A Kuwaiti court has said a 25-year-old man who underwent sex-change
surgery can be officially regarded as a woman.
The unprecedented ruling came after the court was told of the
plaintiff’s physical and mental torment since childhood [...]

? BBC: People feel loyalty to computers

I knew there had to be a reason people still bought Macs.

WHOI just broke into regular coverage to report that the United Auto
Workers voted to reject Caterpillar’s contract offer.
UPDATE: WHOI: UAW Rejects Cat Offer

/In a news release issued Sunday evening, the UAW noted that the
current contract, which was extended by mutual agreement, will
expire at [...]

? Associated Press: Israel: No imminent plans to kill Arafat

/Israeli leaders on Sunday backed away from Prime Minister Ariel
Sharon?s latest threats against Yasser Arafat, saying there are no
immediate plans to kill the Palestinian leader.
Sharon declared in a television interview [...]

Added to my blogroll: Qur’an Blog . If
he’s going to comment on my posts and take pictures
of stuff happening

in Peoria, then I might as well link to him.

I cannot say that I don’t make spelling errors. Hell, I make a LOT of
them. It comes from trying to type with fingers that are about as limber
as pan-fried sausage links and from trying to edit with lousy eyesight.
But, when I know there’s a spelling error, I fix it. That’s why I like
the ‘Net. I [...]

Fridays are notoriously busy days for me. I’m usually wrapping up a
weekly writing assignment in the morning, then I’m off for work by 3
p.m. — which leaves me an hour or two to do personal business. I had
wanted to and planned to go downtown and take some pictures and absorb
some — atmosphere — from the [...]