Common Folk Using Common Sense

From Lawrence Solomon at the Financial Post:

All told, (U.K. scientist and Green Party activist William) Connolley created or rewrote 5,428 unique Wikipedia articles. His control over Wikipedia was greater still, however, through the role he obtained at Wikipedia as a website administrator, which allowed him to act with virtual impunity. When Connolley didn’t like the [...]

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Via FOX News:

ABC didn’t cover it. CBS didn’t either. And NBC apparently wouldn’t go near it.
The network news broadcasts have ignored a growing scandal over evidence of a potential climate cover-up — and now they’ve even been scooped by the fake news at Comedy Central.
“The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” produced its “reporting” on Climate-gate [...]

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The Rockdale Tea Party, scheduled for Saturday, Oct 3, 2009 and to be held at the Whistlepost Tavern in Conyers, GA @ 2pm. Flag waving and sign protest to be held on Hwy 138 next to Taco Bell from 10am-1pm.
Live music, guest speakers, picket parties, and more. Speakers to include Gubernatorial candidates Ray McBerry [...]

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From cnet News:

Internet companies and civil liberties groups were alarmed this spring when a U.S. Senate bill proposed handing the White House the power to disconnect private-sector computers from the Internet.
They’re not much happier about a revised version that aides to Sen. Jay Rockefeller, a West Virginia Democrat, have spent months drafting behind closed doors. [...]

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Via the Buckeye Firearms Association:

The most recent issue of the National Shooting Sports Foundation newsletter, Bullet Points, observes that the faux gun group known as American Hunters and Shooters Association (AHSA), has endorsed the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor for Supreme Court Justice.
As former NRA President Sandy Froman recently pointed out, Sotomayor has a narrow [...]

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Obama unveiled a new TV advertisement. It begins with the date “1982,” a picture of a disco ball and footage of McCain in clunky glasses from his first year in Washington. “Things have changed in the last 26 years, but McCain hasn’t,” explains the announcer. “He admits he still doesn’t know how to use [...]

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Says the American Journalism Review:

More than 70 percent of the political journalists surveyed by communications firm Brodeur in May said they spent at least an hour per day reading blogs and other online media. AJR asked seven political writers and reporters to name their must-reads.
As part of a Brodeur study of reporters and social media, [...]

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From The Radio Equalizer:

Quick, what’s the most disgusting potential way to attack the McCain-Palin presidential ticket? After two weeks of conspiring to destroy Sarah Palin and her family, often through dishonest means, what could be worse than what we’ve already seen, right?
Well, if you thought the left side of talk radio and the blogosphere had [...]

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From Mozilla:

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIF. – June 17, 2008 – Mozilla today released Firefox® 3, a major update to its popular and acclaimed free, open source Web browser. Firefox 3 is the culmination of three years of efforts from thousands of developers, security experts, localization and support communities, and testers from around the globe.
Available today in [...]

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From Breitbart:

Danish authorities on Tuesday arrested three people suspected of plotting a cartoonist’s assassination for his depiction of the Prophet Muhammad wearing a bomb-shaped turban that enraged Muslims two years ago.
Three of Denmark’s largest newspapers said they would reprint the cartoon on Wednesday to show they would not be intimidated by fanatics. It was one [...]

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Pee & Poo – Plush Toys, t-shirts, underwear and more.
“Pee & Poo – Escapees from the bathroom. The unconventional and popular Pee and Poo plush toys are available in a duo pack. They also have their own clothing range with T-shirts, underwear, socks as well as keychains and temporary tattoos. Suitable for children and adults [...]

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From Editor and Publisher:
For the six-month period ending Sept. 30. Preliminary figures as filed with the Audit Bureau of Circulations.

Newspaper
Monday through Friday% change
Sunday% change

USA TODAY
+1.04
N/A

WALL STREET JOURNAL
-1.53
N/A

NEW YORK TIMES
-4.51
-7.59

LOS ANGELES TIMES
+0.50
-5.11

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
-1.73
-6.81

NEW YORK POST
-5.24
-5.10

WASHINGTON POST
-3.23
-3.89

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
-2.90
-2.14

HOUSTON CHRONICLE
-0.13
+0.09

NEWSDAY
-5.62
-4.33

ARIZONA REPUBLIC
-3.75
-4.64

DALLAS MORNING NEWS
-7.68
-7.64

SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
-2.29
-0.66

BOSTON GLOBE
-6.66
-6.54

STAR-LEDGER OF NEWARK
-2.78
-5.57

PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER
+2.31
-2.92

STAR TRIBUNE OF MINNEAPOLIS
-6.53
-4.34

CLEVELAND PLAIN DEALER
-0.81
-0.15

DETROIT FREE [...]

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From TechRepublic:

Jean-Luc Picard (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
James T. Kirk (Star Trek)
Han Solo (Star Wars)
Kathryn Janeway (Star Trek: Voyager)
Malcolm Reynolds (Firefly)
William “Husker” Adama (New Battlestar Galactica)
Bruno J. Global (The Super Dimension Fortress Macross)
Turanga Leela (Futurama)
Jacob Keyes (Halo)
John J. Adams (Forbidden Planet)
Wilhuff Tarkin (Star Wars)
Christopher Pike (Star Trek)
Creideiki (Startide Rising)
David Bowman (2001: A Space Odyssey)
The Doctor [...]

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Hat Tip to fellow People Of The Gun member J. Weer’d Beard:
One of those online political test thingies: The Politics Test

Yeah, some of the questions are too vague, some need to be expanded, etc. But I believe the test nailed my political beliefs pretty well. Check it out for yourself and see “what [...]

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“With mixed emotions I announce: John and I will no longer be producing editorial cartoons.”

And with this the absolutely fantastic editorial cartoons produced by Cox & Forkum are no more.

“For better or worse, I’ve always had to approach the editorial cartoon work as a “part time” career. I never quit my “day job” as co-owner [...]

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