Independent Sources has obtained this exclusive photograph of Britney Spears endangering her baby:
Link to the video flap here.
Editorial note: Independent Sources received the above photo from an unimpeachable source who has asked to remain anonymous. Despite claims of forgery made by bloggers in pajamas, we believe the source to credible and that the preponderance of […]
We go to the Sacramento Bee for more evenhanded coverage of state politics than we get from the Los Angeles Times. Three prime examples popped up in our RSS reader this morning.
First, Dan Weintraub quoting John Kurzweil in CPR Online:
California Republicans have spent most of the past decade trying to bring about a revolutionary reversal […]
Marginal Revolution points us to a paper that reports
Using data from three waves of Add Health we find that being very attractive reduces a young adult’s (ages 18-26) propensity for criminal activity and being unattractive increases it for a number of crimes, ranging from burglary to selling drugs.
We’d like to add the Independent Sources corollary, […]
Technorati chief David Sifry’s most recent “State of the Blogosphere” post is up:
Technorati now tracks over 27.2 Million blogs
The blogosphere is doubling in size every 5 and a half months
It is now over 60 times bigger than it was 3 years ago
Technorati tracks about 1.2 Million new blog posts each day, about 50,000 per hour
Over […]
Robert Joseph Pfeifer, 50, (who was typically referred to as “Bob Pfeifer”) has been jailed in connection with the wiretap and conspiracy prosecution of former Hollywood private investigator Anthony Pellicano (who Pfeifer reportedly referred to as his “godfather”).
Pfeifer had allegedly previously fled to Canada when he believed an indictment was imminent. In a custody […]
Spotted at Kenneth Hahn Regional Park:
The smaller print under the symbol says “Think before you act.”
We’re waiting for the ACLU to file suit opposing this blatant discrimination against criminal’s right of self-expression.
Technorati Tags: crime, Hahn, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)If the Los Angeles Times wants an example of the type of reporting that drives its non-lefty critics nuts, they only need to look at this morning’s paper. Here’s how coverage of the new unemployment figures was reported elsewhere:
The Washington Post: Jobless Rate Drops To 4.7%
(subhead: 193,000 Jobs Added As Unemployment Hits 4 1/2-Year Low)
“The […]
Business 2.0 magazine has published its’ annual 101 Dumbest Moments in Business list. Taking a page from Esquire’s perennial Dubious Achievement Awards, some of our favorites include:
Bollocks the yellow moons and green clovers. Get yer fat arse down and be givin’ me 50 push-ups, boyo.
Amid a rising tide of child obesity, General Mills launches a […]
CBS wants viewers to use CBS.com to download “Survivor” episodes for $1.99, cutting Apple’s iTunes out of the distribution channel (see this piece in the Los Angeles Times).
Now we know where the record company execs who devised crippled music downloading schemes a few years back went after they were fired — they now draw CBS/Viacom […]
With Google stock off nearly 20% in the last three weeks, can cuts to the California state budget be far behind?
Capital gains on GOOG have been credited with boosting California’s tax collections. Other technology and new-media firms have also done their part. Dan Weintraub wrote recently that
$5.5 billion in unexpected tax revenues have flowed into […]
The Economist ($) gets a little Defamer-style snark when it considers Senator John Kerry …
WHERE do Democratic presidential candidates end up? The answer, to judge from recent headlines, is that they go to global gabfests in posh skiing resorts. Al Gore was at Sundance the other week with the likes of Robert Redford, Paris Hilton […]
Two months ago we wrote about the already-qualified 2006 initiative for funding development work for a LA - San Francisco bullet train. We weren’t enamored with the notion of spending public money to get to the Bay Area slower and at higher cost than we can using Southwest.
Now it looks like the idea may get […]
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa won’t commit to running for a second term in 2009, according to recently published reports.
Perhaps that’s because he doesn’t own the domain names he’d want: villaraigosa.com and antonio2009.com.
Click through and you’ll see who does.
Technorati Tags: Los Angeles, Villaraigosa
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