I met a couple of co-workers at a bar Tuesday night for trivia night. I managed to contribute two answers (“Futurama” and Friday the 13th) but was useless during the SuperBowl round. Anyway, the best part of the whole night was hearing the other teams’ names. The two best? • Liar, Liar, France on Fire • Baptist Went Down on Me While The Med Watched That’s good stuff.
Oh my god. Fergie from the Black Eyed Peas is Stacy from “Kids Incorporated.” I learned this from Nashville blogger Christie, who loves the Black Eyed Peas’ lumps song. I can’t say I share Christie’s sentiment about the song, but I’m so glad I happened to click through to her blog via NiT to learn Fergie’s true identity. So freaking weird.
Over at the Huffington Post, Zachary Karabell poses the question: “What if the Supremes overturned Roe v. Wade?” His answer? The Democrats would be better off. Yes, Zachary — can I call you Brother Zachariah? — the Democrats would surely be better off if the Republicans were allowed to claim a major political and “moral” victory, which would certainly galvanize their followers and give them something with which to taunt the already pathetic Democrats who…
Fern Greenbank, now the former Sidelines adviser, penned the following letter to the Scene: Standards deviation I am writing in response to your “Let the Kids Be” blurb in the Nov. 3 Desperately Seeking the News column. While I “get” the gossip nature of the column, I did think consideration of facts was given to those columns, such as the facts I relayed to you during a phone conversation but which seem to have been…
Tonight PBS’s “Frontline” will air an episode called “The Last Abortion Clinic.” It’s about Mississippi’s only remaining abortion clinic in Jackson, the state capitol, and how anti-abortion groups have successfully tweaked Mississippi’s laws and created their own “preganancy crisis” centers to the extent that, one by one, clinics throughout the state have closed down, leaving the Jackson clinic to stand alone. According to Salon’s Heather Havrilesky, “Working strategically within the boundaries of the law, antiabortion…
One of our photo assignment editors, Michael McMullan, has a photograph in the Today’s Show’s “Search for the Perfect Kiss” competition. I’m told he’ll be on the show Friday when they announce the winners, and if he wins, he gets a trip to Hawaii. If you’ve got a minute, click here to see the finalists and vote for Mike’s photo. It’s the third one down, of Stacy and Don.
This weekend was kind of a bust. Getting called in to work Sunday sort of threw my whole plans (1. Do nothing 2. Don’t feel guilty about doing nothing) off kilter. That’s not to say I won’t enjoy the slightly beefier paycheck (which I’ll turn around and hand off to my car insurance company, the bastards). So Monday, I worked out and waited for Phil to get off work at 2 so we could go…
Getting called in to work overtime on a gorgeous Sunday. Bummer!
Editor and Publisher is reporting still more significant drops in circulation for the country’s major newspapers. Gannett’s readership is down 2.5 percent, Knight Ridder’s is down 2.9 percent, and the Tribune Company’s is down 4 percent, McClatchy’s is down 1 percent. Scripps isn’t mentioned, but I think it’s safe to say it’s struggling too. The Boston Globe‘s circulation plummeted about 7 percent, while the New York Times reported a small 0.4 percent increase in its…
Laughing is good for you. Hat tip: Len Cleavelin
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