Raycom’s greed is going to cost them viewers, market share and retransmission revenue. Do they think this game of broadcast chicken is going to get them anything?

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According to a February 28, 2009 article in National Geographic, Mars Hints at Solar, Not Human, Cause for Global Warming. From the article:
Habibullo Abdussamatov, head of space research at St. Petersburg’s Pulkovo Astronomical Observatory in Russia, says the Mars data is evidence that the current global warming on Earth is being caused by changes in [...]

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I hear that Bush Street in San Francisco was temporarily renamed to Obama Street.  This is just plain silly and somewhat vindictive.  In this day of casual Friday, or even casual Monday – Friday, some respect is still due to our leaders.  I’m 100% for free speech, but I just don’t understand some people.   Thankfully [...]

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This story has two attractions for me.  The headline was enough for me to get my dumb-ass pen going, but the real question for me was simply this:  What is a “hooning offence”?

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[Updated 11/13/2008 from another news article]
Sometimes the pictures make the news by themselves.  Alcohol-related just jumps to mind before we even know any other details.
There is not much to do in Idaho sometimes.  Brutsche-Ely (the name speaks volumes too) evidently had about a dozen too many drinks.  She tried to hit a security guard.  Finding [...]

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Following up on my article of two years ago on Christmas gifts for the hard to buy for, here is some ideas on what not to buy–unless they are really hard to buy for. But first, a question:
Q. Why is Santa always so happy?
A. Because he knows where all the bad girls live!
As we [...]

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CNN has a photo and story about 2 guys driving their pick-up truck with two nooses hanging off the back of it. Unbelievable. It gets worse. The passenger was 16, and he said that his family were KKK members and he has KKK tattooed on his chest. He tells this to [...]

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I haven’t done a Dumbass of the Day in a long while, so I guess it is not really “of the Day”.  Regardless, this story about Jesse Jackson made me think of the word “Dumbass”.  Then there is the category for “Stupid things people do”.  I guess I’ll have to put this down under both, [...]

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As I’m sure everyone knows, the Johnson & Johnson (hereafter referred to as J&J) conglomerate has sued the Red Cross for using it’s trademark, the red plus sign. The reason is that the two organizations have an agreement that dates back to the late 1800’s where the Red Cross would get perpetual, free use [...]

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