This man could not have made himself a better target if he'd painted a bulls-eye on his face and went to the shooting range.

Just read this article: Rage-filled Tennessee minister is LIVID wicked women are donating to Planned Parenthood in his nameHe went on YouTube to rant and rave about someone donating to Planned Parenthood in his name-which he ( Read more... )

My friend Brooke marieoroumania* Binkowski, who is Managing Editor of Snopes.com, was on the front page of the New York Times on Christmas Day!

For Fact-Checking Website Snopes, a Bigger Role Brings More Attacks

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UPDATE 3:45pm: This is the response I got from Metro ExpressLanes:

As of November 10th, 2012 at 10:00 pm, all vehicles in the I-110 ExpressLanes were required to have a transponder. As of February 23rd at 12:01 am, 2013, all vehicles in the I-10 ExpressLanes were required to have a transponder. If you used the ExpressLanes after that time without ( Read more... )

There won't be another “21 Ways” essay today. The next one won’t be published until Tuesday at the earliest.

However, I read this op ed piece on the New York Times website, and I found it quite compelling.

“Young, Gifted, and Neglected”

When I was going to school, I needed one of these schools. As it was, I got into the LAUSD’s Magnet program, ( Read more... )

Continuing the analysis of the Yahoo! Finance article 21 Ways Rich People Think Differenly, a condensed “interview” with Steve Siebold, author of How Rich People Think.

4. Average people think the road to riches is paved with formal education. Rich people believe in acquiring specific knowledge.“Many world-class performers have little formal ( Read more... )

Continuing the analysis of the Yahoo! Finance article 21 Ways Rich People Think Differenly, a condensed “interview” with Steve Siebold, author of How Rich People Think.

1. Average people think MONEY is the root of all evil. Rich people believe POVERTY is the root of all evil.“The average person has been brainwashed to believe rich people are lucky ( Read more... )

There was an article recently on Yahoo! Finance (reposted from Business Insider) that really made my stomach churn. Oddly enough, it did exactly the opposite of its supposed intent, which (I infer) was to make “rich people” seem less like elitist assholes.

21 Ways Rich People Think DifferenlyWritten by Mandi Woodruff, it’s presented as a condensed ( Read more... )

This is a list of people who influenced my life, for good or ill, all of whom have died in the year 2012, so far:

1. Mark Adams, Jan 26
   
2. Jan Berenstain, Feb 24
   
3. Davy Jones, Feb 29
   
4. Ralph McQuarrie, Mar 4
   
5. Robert B. Sherman, Mar 6
   
6. Moebius, Mar 10
   
7. Jim Duffy, Mar 23
   
8. Earl Scruggs, Mar 28
   
9. Mike Wallace, Apr 7
   
10. Dick Clark, Apr 18
    
11. Levon Helm, Apr 19
    
12. Maurice ( Read more... )

I have a little gizmo that shows me the top three stories from CNN.com at any given time*. The top story is always accompanied by either the story's first paragraph or an abstract thereof. But today, it was obvious that the person writing the abstract was a little ... abstracted.

From the actual article:

India suffered its second huge, crippling ( Read more... )

“Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed. Everything else is public relations.”

-attributed to George Orwell
(though I was unable to find the source)