Posts will be green today, in celebration. The beer, however, will not. Also, I’ll keep this post at the top all day, as a warning.
Half A Century
Of Buffalos.
Au Revoir
A French couple, husband and wife cryonicists, died when their freezer lost power.
And Now For Something Completely Different
A man has sex with a hog. Freepers comment, with hilarious results.
At least he didn’t fling his schlong (try saying that three times fast) at it.
[Update a couple minutes later]
What a shame.
The Free Republic moderator pulled the thread.
Oh, well. My comments section is still open. Just to get it rolling, I call porkback mountain.
Dogs And Cats Living Together
Hannity, Colmes and Greta are defending Larry King against his own management at CNN.
Which reminds me of his near interview with Osama a few years ago.
Schadenfreude
Moody’s is downgrading the Gray Lady’s debt ratings. And in a Mickey-Rooney/Shirley-Temple, “let’s put on a show” moment, employees of the San Jose Mercury News are putting up a web site to “save our paper.”
It’s dead, Jim.
Was Alcohol Involved?
This guy had to be either severely over, or undermedicated:
Fik, 33, cut off his own p3nis during a Northwest Side rampage Wednesday morning. When confronted by police, Fik hurled several knives and his severed organ at the officers, police said. Officers stunned him with a Taser and took him into custody.
Let the japery commence!
Exposing The Lies
Barbara Stock writes about a very courageous Arab woman:
Within Islam, there is no greater sin than to question the teachings of Islam or Mohammed, and to do so is considered heresy and blasphemy and is punishable by death. Dr. Sultan is now a marked woman and no one is more aware of this than she. She now receives daily death threats but takes them all in stride. She is a woman at peace with her decision to speak out.
As she put forth one accusation after another, the two Islamic scholars had no answers. Their only response was that they didn
The Unexamined Space Program
Jon Goff writes:
If space transportation was as free and healthy of a market as most other markets, I don’t think anyone would care about robots vs humans. It would be so obvious that the answer is “depends on what you want to do” that nobody would even ask the question. The saddest thing about the mainstream robots vs humans debate is that it isn’t really a robots vs humans debate at all, but merely people arguing over who gets the pork.
Yes. Unfortunately, we continue to fail to ask that fundamental question: what do we want to do in space?
Journalists’ Credibility
In comments to this post, John Kelly of Florida Today writes:
As for Ken’s contention that “blogs” are where facts go in and better facts come out, well, we like to start at the highest possible level of accuracy. We understand that we never have the whoe story when we publish and that the story can change when additional facts to come to life. This can lead to an admittedly more cautious approach to publishing than you see in “blogs,” where the assumption that the material is opinion protects the author against inaccuracies or even unwarranted criticism or allegations. It can always be protected as opinion and free speech. If we do that too often in our newspaper or on Internet sites owned and operated by our newspaper, we run the risk of losing credibility. I’m not saying this is the case with yours or any other specific blog, butI think in general there is as much a credibility problem with blogs as in mainstream journalism. Wouldn’t you agree?
That’s far too broad a statement to agree or disagree with. It’s like saying, “there is as much a credibility problem with people as there is with mainstream journalism.”
Some blogs have credibility problems. Some news outlets have credibility problems. In most cases, the respective bloggers and the news outlets brought said problems on themselves.
But the credibility problems rarely come merely from posting something early and mistaken, and then correcting it as new facts come to light. They come from publishing something wrong (sometimes with an obvious agenda), and then stonewalling about it (as CBS did for days, and really even to date), or denying obvious bias in their reporting or blogging. Once one gives up the pretense of “objective journalism,” and shows a willingness to quickly correct the record as prominently as it was originally reported (something that the MSM seems for some reason loathe to do, preferring instead to bury corrections to front-page stories deep in the food section), much or all can be forgiven.