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Can we just be done with this? Sure, Mel had his clown costume on that night.
Who hasn't done something so embarrassing that they cringe when they recall it - sometimes years later?
We can all stipulate that Mel was a fool. Now, is there a good baseball game on?
Commented Oct 6, 2009 on Mel Gibson's 2006 drunk driving conviction expunged [Updated] at L.A. NOW
Mel Gibson's 2006 drunk driving conviction expunged [Updated]
A judge today agreed to expunge Mel Gibson's conviction that followed an infamous Malibu drunk driving arrest in which the actor made anti-Semitic comments to a sheriff's deputy. As part of his 2006 conviction, Gibson agreed to attend Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, perform in public service an...
I've lived in the desert for 40 years, and I like the tortoises.
Are they going to help kill al Qaeda and the Taliban who, as we all recall, declared war on the US 10+ years ago?
If not, let us do our level best to keep them out of harm's way.
Commented Aug 11, 2009 on Army seeks to move more than 1,100 desert tortoises at Greenspace
Army seeks to move more than 1,100 desert tortoises
As it prepares to expand training operations at Ft. Irwin in the Mojave Desert, the U.S. Army is again proposing to move more than 1,100 threatened California desert tortoises -- an unprecedented number of an endangered species that has not fared well during previous relocations. The Army i...
Jeez, buddy, you and the Times need to just get over yourselves.
This attitude that a news organization owns the franchise on communicating a news event is at the root of all the problems that you people have.
Your secret is out: you people possess no special training, no exclusive gift to qualify you as a conveyor of information.
The public is willing to accept the risk that something being reported electronically might be wrong, or at the least, premature. The Jackson story is 92% gossip anyway. So who cares if they would have gotten it wrong?
Commented Jun 29, 2009 on How would we have reacted if TMZ had been wrong about Michael Jackson's death? at Comments Blog
How would we have reacted if TMZ had been wrong about Michael Jackson's death?
As news outlets sprang into action to report on Michael Jackson’s condition June 25, users on social media sites were whipped into a frenzy: He’s not breathing! He’s in a coma! He had a heart attack! And then a Facebook status update, made at 2:21 p.m., that Jackson had died. Of course, 23 mi...
The list of no-tax states focuses my retirement daydreaming a little better. I wouldn't go to Washington state on a bet, but I have had a thing for Texas since I spent a summer on a ranch in Duval County when I was 7. Arizona, where I live, is not the West.
My loving wife bought me Kindle 1 for my birthday when it first came out. I read about all the so-called 'problems' with it and I have to say they don't bother me. My Kindle goes everywhere with me. I think the big huge new Kindle (the $500 model) is a little too much, altho I wouldn't mind trading up for Kindle 2.
Absent an offer, I'm sticking with my original Kindle. It. Just. Works.
Commented May 20, 2009 on Capital Goes Where It's Welcome at Forbes.com: Digital Rules By Rich Karlgaard
Capital Goes Where It's Welcome
Bravo Art Laffer and Steve Moore for writing this (“Soak The Rich, Lose The Rich”) and demonstrating Wriston's Law in action. The gist: “With states facing nearly $100 billion in combined budget deficits this year, we're seeing more governors than ever proposing the Barack Obama solution to bala...
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