The Los Angeles Times has disciplined sock-puppeteer columnist Michael Hiltzik.
For traditional media, his crime was pseudonymous posting. That was the gist of most of the published stories about the controversy, including the initial reports in his own paper. And that got wrapped up in LAT ethics policy (”We do not misrepresent ourselves and we do […]

Overwhelming support for Westly at polls means naught to Democratic Party insiders who throw support behind the organized labor pick. Once again the Dems consider their own voters to be dupes too easily manipulated by television ads, an assessment trumpeted by the Los Angeles Times.

This Democratic-voters-are-easily-manipulated attitude appears to be supported by the […]

Can the republic survive the “National Day Without Labor”?

OK I know that is a bit over the top, but with any legislative effort at immigration reform stalled in congress and sensible discussion hijacked by the pundits we are facing the potential of mass walkouts from school and work tomorrow. The question is what does […]

When given a choice between preserving the view from his kid’s play area and allowing the development of retail shops and a restaurant that would provide about 50* jobs to hardworking Angelenos, actor Johnny Depp votes against the people getting paid by the hour.
The Los Angeles Times reported that Depp is seeking to obstruct development […]

LA Observed is reporting:

Editors at the Los Angeles Times have stripped Michael Hiltzik of his Golden State column in the Business section and suspended him as punishment for posting anonymous arguments on his blog and those of critics. He also loses the blog and will be reassigned to unspecified duties after his suspension, via a […]

Some people are just destined to never get a break. After spending 12 years in jail for a crime he did not commit, Dan Young Jr., 45, was killed in a hit and run accident.
“He always wanted to talk about his new life and what he would do once he got his clemency money,” his […]

President Bush said Friday the national anthem should be sung in English — not Spanish — in a blunt rejection of a new Spanish-language version. However he was quiet on whether or not it could be sung in Ebonics (lyrics below).
National Anthem
(”otay buh-weet”)
Yo, say can ya see,
By da sun’s f’early lightin’,
What up proudly we’s be […]

NCAA declines 3 appeals on Indian mascots
Using its strong arm tactics to applease even its most politically correct critics, the NCAA has rejected appeals from North Dakota, Illinois, and Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
“The NCAA has a responsibility to make sure its events are treated with respect for all and making sure that the environment […]

Skype is now bigger than France.
Skype just passed 100 million registered users, a milestone reached in roughly 30 months. Even more remarkably, it has nearly doubled in size since last September.
Meanwhile, France which has been around for several hundred years longer than Skype has just 68 million users and is barely growing. If […]

Hillary mulling what to do with her middle name

According to CNN:
Most Americans’ feelings toward the Democratic senator from New York change depending on which name is used, according to a recent poll conducted by Opinion Research Corp. for CNN.
Including Hillary Clinton’s maiden name increased her approval rating among Republicans polled to 23 percent. “Hillary Clinton” […]

The San Diego Union-Tribune reports that strange things have been going on far out in the ocean:
A group of local scientists has uncovered some clues to the source of a mysterious disturbance that rattled San Diego County on the morning of April 4, shaking windows, doors and bookcases from the coast to the mountains.
The scientists, […]

Thanks to Hype Tracker we are able to see that the interest in immigration is not simply the result of the latest demonstrations. This is an issue that has building in importance for several years.
The HypeTracker graph shows the number of times in which the keyword “immigration” has shown up within news articles on various […]

Let’s face it, Snoop’s been slipping. Gone mainstream. An elder statement of rap, boring. Just like Tony Soprano did a few weeks ago when he worried that he looked weak to his crew, Snoop orchestrated a fight to show who’s boss. Snoop is no fool and picked a country where the cops don’t carry guns […]

Two teenage girls fight. One gets pummeled over and over for 7 minutes. Mother of one of the girls watches on and does nothing. That would be a definition of “very bad parenting.”
Video of the whole thing here, compliments of MySpace.
h/t: Ace of Spades
tags: cat fight chick fight

Chad weighing in on “what are the government’s most harmful programs”. (See this link to the first post on this series and Insider’s list).
I basically believe that all government programs at the federal level outside defense (including border enforcement), foreign policy, interstate commerce regulation, and revenue collection are basically harmful. Specific programs […]