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I was reading this story and was stunned by the following quote. “What kind of campus promotes an environment that allows people to think it’s acceptable to target people for their ethnicity, gender or sexuality?” said Corey Matthews, one of about 200 mostly minority UCLA students who held a lunchtime rally. “It’s something about the tone [...] Ok, I’m hoping that that post title will get someone’s attention over in the NBC Offices. Olympic coverage has always had a high schmaltz to action ratio, but this Winter Olympics from Vancouver is especially craptastic. Please NBC, stop bidding on the Olympics. Even the critics that eat this shit up agree: I’ve been saying this for so long, it’s about time someone “in charge” said it too. In an interview on MSNBC this morning, newly retiring Sen. Evan Bayh declared the American political system “dysfunctional,” riddled with “brain-dead partisanship” and permanent campaigning. Flatly denying any possibility that he’d seek the presidency or any other higher office, [...] ROCHESTER — The following items, based on entries in the Rochester Police Log, were selected from 1,120 calls for service from Jan. 4 to 10: Taken from Foster’s Daily Democrat, the original is here. Monday, Jan. 4 7:10 a.m. — A woman reports that last evening she was jumped by two men and two women and robbed [...] Those of you who have been reading these know they are pure gold. Those of you new to this blog who might wonder wtf or think tl/dr, here’s why we read this: 12:32 a.m. — There is a report of five men on North Main Street yelling “Niger.” This is more likely to be a racist [...] I think I caught the website Failbooking in its first or second week. It had a few moderately funny exchanges. I went back today to see what was what and laughed my ass off. Check their website out here. Rochester police log Taken from Foster’s Daily Democrat, Wednesday, January 20, 2010. Original is here. ROCHESTER — The following items, based on entries in the Rochester Police Log, were selected from 1,337 calls for service from Dec. 21 to 28: Monday, Dec. 21 I stood in line on Christmas Day, scarfing down Chinese food at the IMAX theater in Palm Springs, California, waiting to see Avatar with my family. We skipped the presents and the commercialism this year and opted for family time. Might as well also see this new movie… we all loved it. I have been [...] Due to the tremendous popularity of last week’s post, I went back and got some back issues of the Rochester Police Log and picked through them to find some highlights. You can read more of them here. The Rochester police log is compiled by Rochester Times Editor John Nolan. Monday, Nov. 16 Back in the early days of the Cold War, when the US and the Soviets had atomic weapons, scientists came up with a “Doomsday Clock” as a metaphor for how close the world is to self-destruction. As with most metaphors brought to life, this one gets dusted off every so often and trotted out to remind [...] |
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