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Archive for December, 2007
Monday, December 31, 2007 Happy New Year! By Steve Sebelius We were going to blog more today — really, we were. But events at CityLife just got in the way. It’s a lot more work to put out that paper than you might imagine. In any case, we’ll be back on Wednesday with all-new blogs (just as Law & Order returns with all new episodes [...]
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Monday, December 31, 2007 Uncommon decency By Steve Sebelius Everybody knows the Review-Journal is a family newspaper. Ward Cleaver’s family, in fact. (After all, the newspaper in 1993 refused to publish For Better or For Worse when that comic strip featured a 17-year-old character coming to terms with the fact that he was gay.)
But we were still surprised to see R-J editors redact [...]
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Friday, December 28, 2007 Oh, now that’s just embarrassing By Steve Sebelius You know that one bitchy girl at work who’s always telling you how to do your job, like you totally don’t already know how to do your job? Well, imagine if everybody at work was like that! And then imagine they totally gabbed to the entire world about how you suck at your job! Picturing [...]
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Friday, December 28, 2007 More reasons a gambling tax might pass By Steve Sebelius Look, we’re not saying we support an increase in the casino tax. But if we were making a list of the reasons it might pass, well, we’d naturally turn to the In Business Las Vegas Book of Business Lists. Wouldn’t you? It’s full of listy-type information.
Anyway, the list that casino companies might be concerned [...]
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Wednesday, December 26, 2007 Let’s hope 2008 brings some changes By Len Butcher As we near the end of 2007, it’s probably as good a time as any to look back over the past year at some of the major issues that we faced and still face, hoping that 2008 may bring a change. I have listed those that I feel, if solved, can make for a much [...]
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Monday, December 24, 2007 Merry Christmas to all… By Steve Sebelius If you’re like us at Various Things & Stuff, you’ve still got some last-minute Christmas shopping to do, last-minute DVR programs to watch and last-minute cigars to smoke. So we’ll dispense with the blogging today to pause and wish everybody a merry Christmas and happy new year.
Let’s all give thanks for the Internet, and [...]
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Friday, December 21, 2007 Mitt Romney is a lying sack By Steve Sebelius Some journalists might use the term "parsing," here, but not us. We’re bold that way. We came across a little item today that further reinforces our view that former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney is a lying sack who will say anything to get elected president of the United States.
The latest flap is this: In [...]
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Thursday, December 20, 2007 Give the media a C-minus By Len Butcher Novelist Jeffrey Archer in his work The Fourth Estate made this observation: “In May 1789, Louis XVI summoned to Versailles a full meeting of the Estate General. The First Estate consisted of 300 clergy. The Second Estate, 300 nobles. The Third Estate, 600 commoners. Some years later, after the French Revolution, Edmund Burke, looking up [...]
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Wednesday, December 19, 2007 Harry Reid is quotable By Steve Sebelius It’s no "don’t tase me, bro!" but U.S. Sen. Harry Reid made the most memorable quote list of 2007, according to a Reuters piece on Yahoo! News.
Reid’s deadpan remark about Vice President Dick Cheney — "I’m not going to get into a name-calling match with somebody who has a 9 percent approval rating." — [...]
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Wednesday, December 19, 2007 Why do Republicans hate due process? By Steve Sebelius So it turns out — in a development as unsurprising as the news that another Spears daughter is pregnant — the AFL-CIO is going to challenge ex-Assemblywoman Sharron Angle’s Petition to Wage War on Hardworking Public Employees. (That’s the short title, right?)
Well, why wouldn’t they? The petition, although re-written from an earlier version filed [...]
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