Print: Dying. And The Net: No Future?

Mariotti Abruptly Quits Sun-Times
Star Sports Columnist Says He Wanted Out Before Newspapers Die Out
CHICAGO (CBS) ― In a bombshell announcement in the world of sports journalism, star columnist Jay Mariotti has abruptly resigned from the Chicago Sun-Times.
Mariotti told the Chicago Tribune he decided to quit after covering the Olympics in Beijing because newspapers [...]

Yo, Obama: Those Eggs Ain’t Hatched, Turkey

HuffPo, of all people, says ‘Obama can’t win’
4) ‘Everybody’ believes Obama is going to win. Especially Obama.
This is ALWAYS dangerous. ‘Everybody’ thought stocks could only rise in early 2000. ‘Everybody’ thought there was no way to lose money in real estate a few years ago. ‘Everybody’ thought the idea of a successful terrorist attack on [...]

Reference: Presidential Candidate Skeletons

Over at SHAMblog, I’ve upset (as usual!) several people with my “I’m voting for Nader!” schtick (as usual!) and one of them posted a link to this site:
The Skeleton Closet
All the Dirt on All the Candidates for President –Since 1995– Because character DOES matter.
Oh, there’s plenty there about Ralph Nader.
And John McCain.
Very, very strangely, little [...]

Jesus Saves, But Satan Collects Interest!

The God Of Money
[A]n associate pastor of a Presbyterian church declared that God is a Capitalist.

I Watch & Tweet The Rick Warren Obama-McCain Thing

It wasn’t until Steve Salerno mentioned it that I even knew there was some sort of (un)debate that happened with Obama and McCain.
I had no interest in seeing it because Nader has my vote.
But then I posted about Peggy Noonan’s column today in the Wall Street Journal and that whetted my appetite. She really [...]

Bank Collapse Watch: Number Nine Falls

Columbian Bank and Trust of Kansas Closed by U.S. Regulators
Aug. 23 (Bloomberg) — Columbian Bank and Trust Co. of Topeka, Kansas, was closed by U.S. regulators, the nation’s ninth bank to collapse this year amid bad real-estate loans and writedowns stemming from a drop in home prices.
The bank, with $752 million in assets [...]

Quote: Writer Warren Ellis

Wrong Fun For America’s Top Slaves!*
Learn to love the taste of water rats, America.

The Video Will Surface. I Am Patient.

It’s not yet on YouTube, but it will be.
“Why is Neil Kinnock the only one in his family to attend university?”
“Why is Joe Biden the only one in his family to attend college?”
Paraphrased. But that’s the gist.
The video exists.
I remember it from back then.
It will rise from the vaults, baby.
Previously here:
Jive-Ass Turkey Picks Jive-Ass [...]

Jive-Ass Turkey Picks Jive-Ass Plagiarist

Joe Biden. Joe “Hey, look at me steal Neil Kinnock’s speech!” Biden!!!
Are all of you too young or too stupid or too desperate that you’d ignore his record?
Politics and Plagiarism
Joe Biden wikipedia:
Then in September 1987, the campaign ran into serious trouble when he was accused of plagiarizing a speech by Neil Kinnock, then-leader of [...]

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