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Before Christmas, Tory election team honcho Doug Finley sent out a fundraising letter to the faithful claiming he was shocked — shocked!! — that a CBC reporter has been accused of passing questions to a Liberal MP to ask Mulroney about Schreiber. From the CP story via CTV.ca: Finley's letter mentions two other CBC reports [...]
Mon, December 31 2007 » Main Page, Media » Comments Off
From a memo by Cincinnati Post editor Mike Philipps to his newsroom staff on what will happen today, the last day the 126-year-old afternoon newspaper will ever publish: John Vissman will arrange for food, beverages and treats for all as we get the last editions out, clean out our desks and say good-bye. But . [...]
Mon, December 31 2007 » Main Page, Media » Comments Off
It will be the 30th anniversary of Boney M's immortal tune Rasputin. I have it on iTunes. It just kicked earlier this evening in after Tennessee, a Bob Sinclar tune. For some reason, I Googled Rasputin and saw that Rasputin was released in 1978 — and it has been part of the wedding DJ's canon ever since. And [...]
Sun, December 30 2007 » Main Page, Minutiae » Comments Off
The Dead Kennedys officially formed in June 1978, but they didn't start to hit the relative big-time (in the context of being a snarly, snotty, highly political underground punk band) until 1980. That year, the group released its debut LP – Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables. And my world was never the same again.* :) [...]
Sun, December 30 2007 » Main Page, Minutiae » Comments Off
From the BBC: The Malaysian government has reversed a decision to ban a Christian newspaper using the word Allah to refer to God. The government had threatened to refuse to give the Weekly Herald a publishing permit if it continued to use the word. The paper's editor said the word had long been used by [...]
Sun, December 30 2007 » Main Page, Media » Comments Off
I just phoned for a cab and had the following exchange: Dispatcher: Where you going? 9 Channel Nine? (i.e. CTV) Me: You read my mind. Dispatcher: Well, I used to work for a psychic line.
Sun, December 30 2007 » Main Page, Minutiae » Comments Off
This story, datelined Bremerton, Wa., moved across the wires today and greatly amused me: A 25-year-old woman was arrested for investigation of second-degree assault for getting into an argument with her boyfriend over whether his dog should be in the bathroom while the couple were taking a shower together. A police report said the 26-year-old man [...]
Sun, December 30 2007 » Main Page, Minutiae » Comments Off
Longtime Turkmenistan dictator Saparmurat Niyazov — the eccentric, self-styled Turkmenbashi, or father of all the Turkmens — checked out about a year ago. Now, energy-rich Turkmenistan is still largely a dictatorship, but a normal one — one where people look down on Uzbekistan. From the BBC's Natalia Antelava: Tatyana, an attractive, 36-year-old single woman, told [...]
Sun, December 30 2007 » * Big Picture Stuff, Main Page » Comments Off
From the NYT: William Kristol, one of the nation’s leading conservative writers and a vigorous supporter of the Iraq war, will become an Op-Ed page columnist for The New York Times, the newspaper announced Saturday. Mr. Kristol will write a weekly column for The Times beginning Jan. 7, the newspaper said. He is editor and [...]
Sun, December 30 2007 » Main Page, Media » Comments Off
From the Star: Ian Urquhart, a former managing editor of the Star and currently Queen's Park columnist, will take over as editorial page editor, publisher Jagoda Pike announced yesterday. Bob Hepburn, the Star's current editorial page editor and an award-winning veteran of the paper, is to become director of community relations and communications. … (Hepburn) will [...]