Entries from July 2009

Wednesday, July 29th, 2009

FOX News goes full retard (again)

Yesterday, on a FOX News morning program, Glenn Beck finally went full retard and called Barack Obama “a racist”.
Oh, yeah. He came right out and said it, too:

Naturally, this provoked outrage among … all the folks Glenn Beck provokes outrage among every day. And a bunch of other people, too. So FOX pretty much had [...]

Monday, July 27th, 2009

Slow News Day

I have been an editor for long enough now that I appreciate a slow news day.
Everyone’s relaxed. Nobody really cares too much if the placement of stories doesn’t quite work. Because none of the stories are breaking, you’ve got them all well before deadline. And in yesterday’s case, the only story worth having wasn’t ending [...]

Sunday, July 26th, 2009

There’s fun yet to come

These are, typically, the weeks of the year when nobody aside from true fanatics gives more than a moment’s thought to games played on ice in cold arenas.
Normally, I would count myself among those who ignore hockey through the dog days of summer. However, since ’summer’ in this city so far can be justly summed [...]

Thursday, July 23rd, 2009

We’re on the way back

It was a long, hard road back … but we’re finally about to post regularly again.
Actually, it was a nice vacation, and we were also busy wrting other things, but it amounts to the same nonetheless.
My city is still filled with garbage, the NHL is still on summer hiatus and even though Sarah Palin quit, [...]

Tuesday, July 7th, 2009

Mourning Bell

Sarah Palin is dead. Politically speaking, anyway. And I am sad.
But not too sad. Because I refuse to believe she will ever really go away. Whenever the wind whispers the word abortion in a pregnant teenager’s ear, Sarah Palin will be there to Fight For Life. Wherever presidential candidates are palling around with terrorists, Sarah [...]