Archive for the 'The Law' Category

Ahhh Normalcy

Tuesday, June 13th, 2006

After a Manic Monday, we dissolve into a Tuesday that doesn’t seem hell-bent on making me panic and beg like a victim of Perverted Justice. It seems like everything is going back to normal, the way we’re all used to it. To recap:

Karl Rove is still bulletproof.
The lede for a Rueters story this morning: “On […]

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Horse Apples

Monday, June 12th, 2006

Song goes into iTunes, iTunes goes into the market, consumers are in the market; our consumers. So why are a bunch of Norwegians pissed about the revolutionary digital music service? Apparently because you can only play iTunes songs on Apple’s iPod* which puts a bee in the bonnet of those who fights the good fight […]

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TVP - Television vs. Predator

Wednesday, June 7th, 2006

If you haven’t heard of or watched the NBC Dateline series “To Catch A Predator,” you are seriously missing out. As the New York Observer chronicles today, reporter Chris Hansen (a literal smarm magnet) acts in concert with activist group Perverted-Justice to ensnare potential sexual predators by pretending to be underage trollops and requesting they […]

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Cause and Effect

Wednesday, May 31st, 2006

If I were to make a sweeping generalization, I would say that journalists tend to be thin skinned. Not like total whiners, but kind of like that one scene in Sideways when Paul Giamani’s character is talking to Virginia Madsen and he gives that whole monologue about the pinot grapes and how sensitive they are, […]

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