Olle Johansson, Sweden … [Read more...] about BACK FROM SCHOOL
Growing the Journalist-Blogger Relationship
My old friend Will Bunch is one of the best bloggers around. This is in no small part because he is a very fine reporter and writer and has honed his Pulitzer Prize-winning skills breaking big stories over two-plus decades in the newspaper business. Will never has been content to rest on his laurels. He has worked tirelessly not only to save his own imperiled newspaper … [Read more...] about Growing the Journalist-Blogger Relationship
Dr. Supreme
RJ Matson, The St. Louis Post Dispatch … [Read more...] about Dr. Supreme
Building a Wall
A good post over at The Newshoggers about the astonishing news that the US military is building a wall in northern Baghdad in an effort to make it impossible for Shi'ite terrorists to commit terrorist attacks against Sunnis. The modern version of the 'Iron Curtain'? Cernig writes: The new counter-insurgency manual emphasizes the importance of information, of "hearts … [Read more...] about Building a Wall
School Lockdowns Multiply Amid Fears Of Virginia Tech Copycats
It was 10:10 a.m. Thursday morning and I was 15 minutes away from finishing my second performance with a No Bullying theme in my non-blogging incarnation at an elementary school in Torrance, California. The kids were laughing because I had just gotten five volunteers up to the stage and the students had just put on ratty wigs and were JUST about to lip-sync "Tutti Frutti" while … [Read more...] about School Lockdowns Multiply Amid Fears Of Virginia Tech Copycats
Total Recall
John Darkow, Columbia Daily Tribune, Missouri … [Read more...] about Total Recall
Just When You Think Things CAN’T Get More Barbaric
Shootout at NASA’s Johnson Space Center
The mysterious situation in Houston TX has turned into a murder-suicide. MSNBC Houston Chronicle: 2 dead in JSC hostage standoffA gunman and one hostage, both men, are dead after a confusing incident at Johnson Space Center today, Houston Police confirmed today. A second hostage, a woman, survived with no injuries. … [Read more...] about Shootout at NASA’s Johnson Space Center
Cho’s Family Speaks Out, Apologizes
AP via MSNBC: BLACKSBURG, Va. - The family of Virginia Tech gunman Cho Seung-Hui told the Associated Press on Friday that they feel "hopeless, helpless and lost," and "never could have envisioned that he was capable of so much violence." "Our family is so very sorry for my brother's unspeakable actions. It is a terrible tragedy for all of us," the family said. … [Read more...] about Cho’s Family Speaks Out, Apologizes
Virginia Tech and A Grisly Historic Footnote
The massacre of 32 students this week at Virginia Tech University was not the deadliest act of mass murder in a school in U.S. history. That long-forgotten distinction belongs to the Bath Township (Michigan) Consolidated School, where 45 people were killed and 58 injured on May 18, 1927 in a dynamite explosion set off by school board member Andrew Kehoe. Kehoe was upset … [Read more...] about Virginia Tech and A Grisly Historic Footnote
Sanjaya Memorial
Mike Lester, The Rome News-Tribune … [Read more...] about Sanjaya Memorial
Dutch Corporal Killed by Taliban
A 21 year old Dutch corporal was killed in Afghanistan by the Taliban. While on patrol, a bomb exploded. The 21 year old Dutchman died instantly. His remains have been brought to Kandahar, his body will be flown back to the Netherlands next week. He is the sixth Dutch soldier to die in Afghanistan, but the first to die due to 'violence of war'. He was a member of the … [Read more...] about Dutch Corporal Killed by Taliban
It’s all News
Another great round-up by Jules Crittenden... good news, bad news, odd news, it's all news. … [Read more...] about It’s all News
Stop Me – Virginia Tech Shootings
Daryl Cagle, MSNBC.com … [Read more...] about Stop Me – Virginia Tech Shootings
The Event: Chapter 15
Mick LaSalle published chapter 15 of The Event. Go and read it! … [Read more...] about The Event: Chapter 15
Alberto Gonzales, George Bush, Karl Rove, Arlen Specter, and “The United States of Greek Tragedy America
Will Alberto R. Gonzales become the newest Icarus of this Administration, I mean, this ancient Greek tragedy, now? It can be a terrible thing to love a father so much that even though you are falling fast, your father only cheerily bids you to flap harder... The young Icarus so trusted his father Daedelus, that he believed him when his father said, “Here just put on this … [Read more...] about Alberto Gonzales, George Bush, Karl Rove, Arlen Specter, and “The United States of Greek Tragedy America
al-Maliki Warns Turkey Not To Intervene in Iraq
Cernig points out this article in the Guardian, accompanied by the words ‘Hooooo boy, things are getting “interestingâ€? - as in the old Chinese curse style of “interestingâ€?.’ What’s so interesting? Iraq’s Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has warned Turkey not to attack the PKK in Iraq. Any incursion would be met by a “united Iraqâ€?: “Iraq is a sovereign … [Read more...] about al-Maliki Warns Turkey Not To Intervene in Iraq
Center of Attention
Today's Center of Attention... Andrew Sullivan on abortion, states rights, libertarians, classically liberals, conservatives, etc. Balloon Juice's Tim F. explains why George W. Bush "irritates people": "Again the unique Bush gift goes beyond making a plainly stupid argument to some ethereal plane of counterproductive mendaciousness. A sworn enemy of the United States … [Read more...] about Center of Attention
The Koran and Israel
The Jerusalem Post reports that "former PA foreign minister Mahmoud A-Zahar of Hamas said Friday that recognizing Israel contradicts the Koran." In an interview with a Hamas-affiliated Web site, Zahar also said that "Hamas had not given up on the principle that all of Palestine is Muslim land." Or to put it more bluntly: the Jews have got to go, according to this man of … [Read more...] about The Koran and Israel
NRA
Cam Cardow, The Ottawa Citizen … [Read more...] about NRA