Today’s news: Linkage
Here’s some links to keep readers amused as I look for a guest for Sunday’s radio show about litter:
From Chef Kevin’s site, this email he received about the downtown museum:
 ”…seems to me if they can’t do the marketing and promotions to raise enough money to BUILD the museum, why should anyone expect they’d be able to market and promote the museum once it’s built??? Wow, I’m all a-tizzy from over here; no wonder you’re pissed.”
No kidding.
And from iVoryTowerz, reflections on another newspaper snatched up by GateHouse:
With the buyout will assuredly come a move away from the local focus and personal touch that defines the current coverage. Just like the droves of tourists that now overwhelm the Lower Cape in the summer, the Banner’s replacement will likely be a distanced, mass produced paper unconcerned with the roots of the area and its interests. The slow erosion of the Lower Cape’s unique culture may go as unnoticed as the Banner’s demise.
Merle Widmer doesn’t think much of the Jim Les era at Bradley University:
Jim Les returned to this community promising a return to the greatness of many years past. As a longtime observer of Bradley basketball, I have not seen a fulfillment of that promise nor do I see it in the future.
Also, unanswered is not only whether or not a player is guilty of assault or speeding while drinking, but why were they “messing” around in the early morning hours especially the day of a nationally televised game? All indications are that the athletic director and the coach do not have the respect of some of the players or rules are lax or both.
Scott Janz is all a-twitter about drugs in the drinking water:
The Associated Press reports it’s only parts per billion, but the mere fact they reported it, must mean there is concern somewhere.
I call bullsh*t. Travel back in time 200 years, or even as recently as 100 years ago. There probably weren’t drugs in the drinking water, but I’m certain that healthy, drinkable water was much, much harder to find. We’re living longer than ever, and as a result, we get bent out of shape at microscopic risks, or risks we’ve invented out of whole cloth, like the vaccine-autism boondoggle.
And finally, from Dan Johnson-Weinberger, a bit of clarity:
The idea that an asset worth a billion dollars owned by one of the wealthiest men in Illinois should get government money is so preposterous on its face that I’m a little sad that we have to argue whether or not we should put Sam Zell’s Chicago Cubs on welfare.
Hat tip to The Capitol Fax Blog.
Billy Dennis is a former reporter and editor at small daily and weekly newspapers in Illinois and Missouri. He comments on media, news and politics. He also owns and operates 
