Numerous media outlets are reporting that the FBI is searching a horse farm about 30 miles northwest of Detroit, Michigan. Hoffa disappeared in 1975 and most certainly will look different than he did 30 years ago–especially if he has spent some or all of the at time buried underground.
Independent Sources’ staff artists […]
This is how it all started on May 13, 2003:
My name is Kevin Roderick. I am an author, a journalist, an Angeleno and wear assorted other labels. I suppose I’m also now a blogger. This will be a place where I file occasional tidbits, observations and hearsay about Los Angeles. The emphasis will be on […]
“Marijuana for sale” not the wisest text message say experts.
Why is this man so sad?
Jacob Lyman, 18, is sad because he was just arrested on two counts of distribution. Lyman was sending out text messages that said, “Marijuana for sale.” After a tip, investigators said they contacted his phone and purchased pot from the fledgling […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)Securities class action firm Milberg Weiss is in the news again (as in, the law firm that might be indicted for conspiracy — that Milberg Weiss). And this Milberg Weiss:
Fraud-Tainted Law Firm Is #1 Source of Law Biz Contributions To Barbara Boxer
Many Democrats Received Funds From Law Firm Targeted By Grand Jury
Milberg Weiss announced […]
In Seattle schools, you’re racist if you have a Type A personality, are libertarian, or believe there is such a thing as “proper English.” From the definitions page of their “Equity and Race Relations” website:
Cultural Racism: Those aspects of society that overtly and covertly attribute value and normality to white people and Whiteness, and devalue, […]
A proposal to allow self-serve at New Jersey gas stations has run into vociferous opposition from people who cite — along with job losses — safety concerns. Apparently New Jerseyites are less intelligent than the residents of 48 other states, or their cars are designed differently:
… Critics of a shift to self-service say pumping their […]
Via: VideoSift
Video is about ten minutes and worth watching through to the end.
Daniel Blanchard, a California high school student thought it’d be cool with his homies to post a picture of himself smoking pot out of a bong on MySpace. Unfortunately for Blanchard, a Placer County Deputy Sheriff came across the picture. This sheriff is also the School Resource Officer assigned to the teen’s high school and […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)A new factoid should add to broadcast network paranoia about the internet.
An online poll of internet users found that “only one in four 12- to 34-year-olds can name all four major broadcast networks.”
Yes, the poll was conducted online, and it wasn’t random, so it skews toward internet users. But: one in four.
The most popular use […]
Straight-laced Salt Lake has a secret. But it’s out — a new tool shows that when Salt Lake Dad is on the computer, he’s not downloading bank statements!
Yes, the country’s 45th largest metro area ranks near the top when it comes to searching for pictures of women without their clothes on.
Google’s new Trends tool compares […]
As an update to our story “Richard Hatch Loses Immunity Challenge Against the IRS,” we are oh so happy to report that the ever-annoying jackass Richard Hatch was sentenced to 51 months jail time for failing to pay the IRS on his Survivor earnings. 51 months is what they give killers (at least in LA), […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)Truly from the Department of You’ve Got to See This.
The BBC apologized to viewers for a mix-up that resulted in a interviewee for a data center job mistakenly appearing on camera as an expert on Internet music downloads and commenting on the Apple Records vs. Apple Computer lawsuit.
IT expert Guy Kewney had been due to […]
The video below is one of the two newly released videos of the terrorist attack on the Pentagon released today by the DoD. Conspiracy theorists have been citing the lack of release of this video as “proof” of a massive government cover-up.
Now that the video has been released, the conspiracy theorists will switch […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)The University of Colorado report on Ward Churchill’s research misconduct is out. The investigating committee unanimously found that Churchill committed deliberate falsification, fabrication, and plagiarism in his published work.
A three member majority of the five member panel thought Churchill’s conduct egregious enough to warrant revocation of tenure, and dismissal; of them, two recommended a five […]
New supercomputer simulations show that a rupture on the San Andreas fault will cause minutes of severe “roller coaster” shaking in the Los Angeles Basin.
Researchers at the Southern California Earthquake Center simulated two scenarios: a northeast to southwest “zipper” rupture, and the reverse. It is said to be “the biggest and most detailed simulation of […]
