In the half-decade or so that blogging has been taking off on the World Wide Web, bloggers have envied the mainstream media for its power and influence while at the same time excoriating the mainstream media for its arrogance. The bloggers have been making continuous progress catching up on power and influence over the last few years. Now they take a big step toward catching … [Read more...] about Catching Up With Mainstream Media, But Not In a Good Way
Clown Captured in Chicago
I just spotted the headline in Yahoo news: Reputed Mob Boss Captured in Chicago A mobster, in Chicago? Say it ain't so! Why would a mobster in Chicago be big news? Unless... They did write "Mob Boss"... Could it be...? Holy Crap! They caught Joey "The Clown" Lombardo! Lombardo has had kind of a strange reputation for years. Apparently, he was not a very flashy guy by … [Read more...] about Clown Captured in Chicago
This May Explain A Lot…
Shoe Fetish
Buffy has a special (and slightly disturbing) relationship with my shoes, especially right after I take them off... … [Read more...] about Shoe Fetish
Finding Truth
Earlier this week I blogged about the retesting of DNA evidence in the murder of Wanda McCoy. Roger Keith Coleman was executed for the crime 13 years ago, but various people have been insisting he was innocent and asking for the evidence to be re-tested. Now it has, and the results were about what I predicted: The DNA matched with 19-million-to-one odds against an accidental … [Read more...] about Finding Truth