I just came across a book (albeit from 2001 so I’m kind of slow to the mark on this one) called Will They Fly a Plane in our House? It is about teaching kids about terrorism. As you can imagine, it alternates between inane and ridiculous. Every family is different but we are going to […]

Here’s a prime example of “Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus” offered by an English professor from the University of Phoenix:
The professor told his class one day: “Today we will experiment with a new form called the tandem story. The process is simple. Each person will pair off with the person sitting […]

If you’re writing about “weaponized weather control,” don’t you want to establish the credibility of your primary source a little better than … this?
It’s late fall of 2004. Fred McKenna surveys his beloved radionics equipment with sorrow. “I am expecting a visit from the boys in black,” he sighs to me. Because he has been […]

From Editor and Publisher:
A newspaper company, like a public broadcaster, could be organized as a not-for-profit, tax-exempt corporation. It could still sell papers and advertising, it could still develop new Internet revenues, it would still pay market wages and salaries (or maybe better), it could re-invest in improving its own staff and facilities and operations, […]

I remember the first time that I heard of Richard Pryor. He had an album cover of him about to be burned at the stake by people in robes with the title “Is It Something I Said?“. It doesn’t get funnier than that. Stated simply, he was a Redd Foxx that my generation could understand. […]

Zimbabwe’s “President” (for life) Robert Mugabe called a United Nations envoy a liar for his criticism of humanitarian conditions in Zimbabwe. Given the massive food shortages caused by Mugabe’s racist policies that have decimated Zimbabwe’s once productive farming sector not to mention the fact that the UN and its donor nations are feeding six million […]

LAObserved brings us up to date on local TV personalities maximizing their exposure.
Posed for Playboy: former KCBS / KTTV sportscaster Lisa Guerrero:

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Said to be next: Fox 11’s Jillian Barberie (according to Blogging.LA)

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Has offered, but no takers yet: KNBC himbo Paul Moyer

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Update Here’s someone we wish would pose for Playboy …
and if […]

As Defamer so aptly put it: Jennifer Aniston’s Rack Strictly Off Limits
According to Defamer, the Smoking Gun obtained a letter sent by Jennifer Aniston’s lawyers to a number of publications a subject line: “Jennifer Aniston/Invasion of Privacy.” At issue are topless photographs of Jennifer sunbathing at her home.
And what does the photographer have to say […]

The Sun Online - News:
BROKE Michael Jackson will be homeless in less than two weeks.

The singer has missed repayments on a £156million loan and has been told to pay back the full sum by December 20.
If he doesn’t come up with the cash he faces losing his Neverland ranch and his lucrative Sony Beatles catalogue.
Those […]

The Los Angeles Times’ Michael Hiltzik takes offense when Hugh Hewitt uses “uncivil language” — the word “lie” — to describe one of his posts:
“Now, jumping my statement up to a “lie” is a pretty extreme reaction, and would certainly get Hugh an “F” from anyone favoring civil discourse in America. It barrels right through […]

That’s Sacramento Bee columnist Dan Weintraub’s apt description of California Republicans who want the state party to reconsider last summer’s endorsement of Schwarzenegger in 2006.

Technorati Tags: 2006 Election, Republican, Schwarzenegger

Marginal Revolution: India fact of the day
A bone-marrow transplant costs $2.5 million in the United States. Doctors in India can do it for $26,000.
There was a time not long ago where American computer programmers looked down on their Indian counterparts and believed that American companies would never trust mission critical IT to Indians. No longer. […]

“Why are there 11 teams in the Big Ten?”
- Congressman Joe Barton (R-TX) to Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delaney during Congressional hearings yesterday on the BCS.
According to Barton, “the current system of determining who’s number one is deeply flawed,” and apparently we need Congress and its noted problem-solving skills to fix it. Barton should […]

The Los Angeles Times is concerned that — gasp — individuals have to decide whether to return to New Orleans:
Lost amid continued talk of billions in federal aid is the fact that most homeowners and businesses are being left to make the toughest calls on their own. Lost is that New Orleans’ recovery — which […]

Steve Lopez called us hackneyed, Michael Hiltzik used non-kid friendly terms to describe our analysis of his columns, and Annette Haddad would probably like us beaten with a pole or better yet a spunk stick. In general the L.A.Times has been hard on Independent Sources treating us like ding dongs and weinies without any meat […]