Silly kids.

From the AP today:
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) – College students from Missouri to Oregon are urging their schools to stop using coal-based electricity in favor of cleaner energy sources ranging from wood chips to geothermal power.
On Wednesday, students at the University of Missouri and other schools nationwide mounted a Sierra Club-led campaign targeting coal-based power at [...]

Behind the Times.

Sometimes I feel like I’ve been tied to the whipping post, and oh Lord I feel like I’m dying.
Here’s another daft NY Times reporter who thinks that the entire history of the world began on the day she graduated J-school.
Countering criticism of another Jewish building project planned for Sheik Jarrah, Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, [...]

Represent.

From the “if we don’t want it, what are our elected officials doing pushing for it” file, comes this latest Rasmussen report:
The health care reform legislation working its way through Congress has lost support over the past month. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that 44% of U.S. voters are at least somewhat [...]

Fleet Scribbler.

Here’s Jonathan Weisman from the Wall Street Journal this past Saturday:
WASHINGTON — Republicans launched a political offensive against President Barack Obama’s handling of the economy after weeks of reticence, emboldened by Friday’s report of a surging unemployment rate.
Political strategists have been pushing GOP lawmakers to attack Mr. Obama’s $787 billion stimulus plan and to challenge [...]

Hungry like the . . . cow?

More titillating wordplay from the AP:
PALMYRA, N.Y. (AP) – Two unemployed, hungry men stole a calf from a neighbor’s barn, shot it with an arrow and slit its throat before roasting its meat, police said.
David Lochner, 21, and Timothy Welch, 18, were camping outside Palmyra, 20 miles southeast of Rochester, several weeks ago when a [...]

But what do readers think?

It seems that the NY Times is retiring its stand-alone “City” section–an event which inspired a sentimental retrospective in yesterday’s NY Observer.
Last week New York Times executive editor Bill Keller announced that the paper would be restructuring its Sunday Metro section to incorporate pieces that previously would have appeared in the stand-alone City section, and [...]

About face.

Variations on the anti-establishment theme that seems to be obsessing me a bit today. This from Bob Krumm:
This is the speed of the modern internet.  Instead of needing the establishment to give credibility to a movement–be it political or cultural–the establishment needs those movements to keep them relevant.
Let’s be bipartisan here.  Before there were Tea Parties [...]

Take the quiz.

Remember, it’s your job as a voting American to stay informed, but it’s also the job of the American media to report the information accurately. We’re not in Washington. Or the Middle East. We work at our own jobs and pay these institutions (in the form of cable bills and newspaper/magazine cover prices, etc.) to [...]

Fascinating.

Please, everyone, even if you’re not that “into” politics, I beg you, do not think that there isn’t an agenda behind every word you read in your local paper or see on your local newscast.
Witnesseth:
The following headlines have appeared in newspapers within the last 24 hours. This is not an inclusive list.
• Third of [...]

Are you experienced?

UPDATE—-here she is, in the flesh. Easing the transition from awkward big-headedness to sleek doe-eyedness for tweens everywhere.

So by now I’m thinking you’ve all heard of the new model they’re about to break out for Dora the Explorer?
They’re keeping us guessing as to the details, but they’re hoping we’ll all be titillated enough by this [...]

You can’t make this stuff up—wait a minute, apparently you can!

They Never Learn: CNN Withdraws Apparently Faked Video of CPR Attempt on ‘Dead’ Palestinian Child | NewsBusters.org.
I’ve got nothing to add to this. Just read it (and watch it) and weep. It’ a race to the bottom now, and we’ve got front row seats. The hope is that not too many innocents get dragged down [...]