The Journal Star and the local broadcast media have almost nothing local to report.
I want to keep posting every day, but I’m down to eye candy posts and Drew Barrymore updates. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
I’m not sure why I’m bothering. Unique hits are down to about 200 per day (from about 800 [...]

Peoria, send out a welcome to Paul Bixby’s Catastrophic Success, who recently added Peoria Pundit to his blogroll.
He’s a graduate of Western Illinois University, but nevertheless seems to be an intelligent, insightful blogger. Apparently, Eastern Illinois University turned him down, so he had to go with his second choice. EIU had a rep for being [...]

Via Yahoo! News: ‘Law & Order’ Star Jerry Orbach Dies

“Law & Order” star Jerry Orbach has died of prostate cancer at 69, a representative of the show said Wednesday.
Orbach died Tuesday night in Manhattan after several weeks of treatment, Audrey Davis of the public relations agency Lippin Group said.
When his illness was diagnosed, he had [...]

WHOI: DMV Fees to Change

The DMV has always had a negative stigma and now it is going to take more of your money, too.
Smile for the license camera.
Billy Halsted works with the DMV in Peoria.
He said, “With the financial state of Illinois right now, they have to find some way of getting revenue.”
State lawmakers [...]

According to this site, Festivus For the Rest of Us, now is the season for airing one’s grievances.
The problem is that’s pretty much what I do every day.
So, it was a little difficult to come up with this list of ten (mostly)all-new complaints and criticisms of the world at large. Luckily, I have many, many [...]

Jeff Trigg links to my post about a JS headlien that fails the objectivity test.
Thanks, Jeff.
He also links to a Neal Pierce column calling for drug law reform, as well as a Chicago Tribune article (r.r.) about a study in whether Ecstacy can help cancer patients.

First, Alex wrote about the wonderful messages found in the movie, “The Incredibles.” Of course, the movie is stuffed to the brim with libertarian and Objectivist philosophy.
Now, he uncorks this whopper:

As a member of a minority, I think I have every right to be critical of tha woeful practice called “Affirmative Action”.
If I (or any [...]

Journal Star: Law will make meth-making more difficult
Oh, it will? Says who? The politician who sponsored this bill? Of the opinion-holding headline writer responsible for this deviation from objectivity? Does the Journal Star headline writer believe the very existance of this law on the books in Illinois will make it harder to make drugs?
This [...]

Damn you, SondraK! Damn you!
I had intended to be the first blogger on the block to write about “The Incredibles.” I wanted to see it because I am a huge fan of Pixar and of the era of superhero comics that inspired the movie.
What I — and many other bloggera, apparently — did not realize [...]

The River City Times is doing that all good alt weeklies do. We’re running a Best of Peoria Contest.
Woo hoo!
The results will run in the first issue of 2005, which is scheduled to hit the stands on Jan. 6. The absolutely final deadline for entrants will be 10 a.m. Monday, Jan 3.
Get the latest issue, [...]

This site received exactly unique 132 hits on Dec. 26. Even less on the day before.
That’s down from more than 700 right before the election.
I think its a combination of the end of the political season and relocation of the site’s url twice in a 60-day period. Also, a lot of people browse blogs on [...]

Jessica Alba will appear at Sue Storm — the Invisible Girl — in the upcoming live action version of The Fantastic Four.
Here’s what Jessica looks at in a nearly invisible outfit:

From Editor & Publisher: ‘St. Louis Post-Dispatch’ Blogger Outed, Suspended

In his blog, Finney “took frequent, thinly veiled potshots against his employers and coworkers,” wrote Times reporter Ben Westhoff. “He also wrote about stories he was working on for the paper. An example: ‘Today was an absolute abomination. It began unwillingly at 7:30 a.m. when I [...]

Journal Star: Top 10 stories of 2004
There were no local news links to post yesterday. None of the broadcast media bothered to post articles to their Web sites, and the Journal Star, the newspaper of record for Peoria and some 22 counties of central Illinois, didn’t bother to publish on Christmas.
And there’s not much [...]

In 1993, DC Comics issued Green Lantern 48 and 49, labeled “Emerald Twilight.” It was the latest case of a the comics group making major changes in a popular character simply because the shock value would sell a few more books than usual that month.
That’s why they “killed” Superman and had Batman break his back [...]