From a Dutch talk show (all props due I-Man) (warning explicit lyrics nsfw whatev):

I just found this:
The Local: Sweden's News in EnglishI am posting this one link here in this one place because, really, I wanted to email the article "Swedish women turn to moose hunting" to various of my friends, and then I saw the headline "World's first seal cookbook launched in Sweden" above "Wild boar threaten Swedish drivers" and "Death ( Read more... )

Time to play today's edition of What's Wrong With the Scott McClellan Quote, courtesy of NYT:Alert to the [UN] report's conclusions from news accounts circulating based on a draft and reacting quickly to its publication today, theWhite House suggested the investigators had based their conclusions on disinformation deliberately spread by terror ( Read more... )

NYT letters page had some zingers today. I'll start with one very much in the vein of yesterday's post:
To the Editor:

As a father who recently introduced my 12-year-old son to the sport of hunting, I would like to thank Dick Cheney for providing such a great example of what not to do while hunting.

I sat my son down yesterday to review all the ( Read more... )

Retriever Weekly: Cousin J landed the big murder story of the week at UMBC this week.

Um, I feel like "Good for you, Cousin J," is sort of inappropriate, but you know what I mean.

ETA: Now that I've actually read the article, I can in all fairness commend it as an exceptional piece of journalism and news writing. Good work, Cousin J.

WaPo today took wide aim at wisecracks about the VP's shooting of a fellow hunter/geriatric millionaire lawyer.

Wonkette, already in the shotgun seat of the bandwagon, fired off a round of its own.

But seriously, folks...

The Smoking Gun has the accident report.

NYT, in quite properly diagnosing the incident as further indication of the ( Read more... )

My superhero Dad wrote the following letter to the New York Times today (reproduced here with his permission):I am very distressed to find that your November 9 article "Mountains of Corn and a Sea of Farm Subsidies" does not include the word "waste". Instead, the article's author describes American agriculture as "efficient". Is it efficient to ( Read more... )

NYT editorial: President Bush's Walkabout

The NYT editorial staff's gloves finally seem to be off:After President Bush's disastrous visit to Latin America, it's unnerving to realize that his presidency still has more than three years to run. An administration with no agenda and no competence would be hard enough to live with on the domestic front ( Read more... )

SpiegelOnline (English) (liberated from members-only Salon.com, hooray): Exaggerated Stories of Hurricane Chaos in New OrleansNEWS FLASH: The Superdome was not filled with rape and murder, nor were there scores of bodies in a freezer, nor were people downing helicopters ( Read more... )