“The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There’s also a negative side.”
–Hunter S. Thompson
This doesn’t seem right:
A Manhattan jury said yesterday that the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey was negligent in safeguarding the World Trade Center before the first terror attack on the twin towers, the 1993 bombing that killed six people and injured 1,000. …
In order to reach a verdict, at least five of [...]
Independent Sources just added Joe Sherlock’s View Through the Window to our blogroll last week and if you haven’t checked it out yet, here is an example of what you are missing:
Bad Idea #1346: Ford is turning to employees for ideas to help guide a major turnaround of the company’s North American operations. Salaried employees [...]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)This site estimates how much a blog is worth, using the Technorati’s link count multiplied by the value per link ratio from the AOL / Weblogs Inc. deal.
Here’s our current value. You can test your own. Or your enemies:
Sounds about right.
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H/t: Marginal Revolution
Last week we challenged the Los Angeles Times’ Steve Lopez’s contention in the opening salvo of his look at Skid Row that “roughly 10,000 people flop on skid row streets each night …”
Look at the earlier post for all our reasons, but among them was that the oft-cited 10,000 figure includes 10,000 homeless and at-risk [...]
Barbara Boxer’s novel “A Time To Run” is out, and it should be no surprise that conservatives don’t come off well in it. What they may find interesting is that she explains why people become conservative — and it has nothing to do with principle.
The novel features heroic liberals Josh and Ellen, who Los Angeles [...]
Remember 10 or so years ago when OJ Simpson’s Time magazine photograph was doctored up to make him look guilty? (Imagine that? Of course they should have just painted specs of blood on him for the same effect).
Well, it’s USA Today’s turn and they’ve decided that since they could not find sufficiently evil photograph of [...]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)13-year old Horace Mann Junior High School student, Daun’ne Land, is suing the Los Angeles Unified School district because she doesn’t want to wear a uniform to school as is the school’s policy. The policy is aimed at keeping students from wearing gang colors, quite a problem in the South LA area that [...]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)From Defamer:
Based on that $490 million in equity, we estimate that the first round of layoffs will probably arrive in June of 2006.
Of course Defamer is also calling for Dakota Fanning to be cast as Rosa Parks.
On the CBS2 6 pm newscast tonight, Los Angeles anchor Paul Magers promoted the station’s new website touting that is “always on.” Wow, this is really a differentiating factor against those other web sites that close down at 10 pm. And in case you didn’t immediately understand the importance of “always on” they said it [...]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)On August 5th, 2005, Independent Sources went to press with this well-received posting:
Having Killed Laci, Scott Peterson Sets Sights on Killing Wristband Fad
On October 26th, CBS2, the Los Angeles affiliate of CBS News aired the exact same story (without our wit mind you). And what did then learn in the 82 days since we reported [...]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)The passage below is from the early 70s but it sounds an awful lot like what is being said today:
Prisons became the issue of the Left, particularly in California, where prisons had been radicalized early. In the radical Bay Area Left, a dangerously indiscriminate credo evolved: that prison inmates, by virtue of their suffering alone, [...]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)Democrats are working on a new slogan, and … they can’t decide what it is. From The Hill:
House Democratic leaders are holding a closed-door meeting with members of their caucus this afternoon to discuss a new slogan for the 2006 midterm elections: “Together, We Can Do Better” or “Together, America Can Do Better,” according to [...]
Presumed California gubernatorial candidate Phil Angelides unleashed a Jib-jab style animated short today that his website says “expos(es) Schwarzenegger’s relationships with some of the most prominent right-wing figures.”
What it exposes is a lack of taste in the Angelides campaign.
In the ad, which knocks off Sesame Street, the “Governor” sings “These are the people in [...]
Pop quiz: Can you pick out the child killer of the group below?
Answer: It was a trick question as they have all been arrested (or convicted) of killing their children. Since perpetrators of multiple homicides typically earn nicknames, Independent Sources has issued temporary names until the media coins them. From left to right Holly Ashcraft [...]
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