A lesson in why one should be careful how much detail one spills, and about whom.
Click here to see why many federal workers didn’t get bonuses or pay raises in time for the Christmas holiday.
Does the Associated Press not hire writers and/or editors who can actually write proper English?
While reading this article about Interior Secretary Kempthorne touring the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, I was horrified to run across the following sentence in the third paragraph down:
His flight from Deadhorse, 120 miles to the west, had been turn backed [...]
In an otherwise okay little article on the CNN web site about how gangs are up online and how cops are using that to their advantage, there was this little gem:
“In order to understand any subculture, be it al Qaeda, witches, devil worshippers or gangs, you have to be able to know their own language,” [...]
Christian Conservatives are now suing for the right to discriminate.
I think this was the most telling comment from the article:
By equating homosexuality with race, Baylor said, tolerance policies put conservative evangelicals in the same category as racists. He predicts the government will one day revoke the tax-exempt status of churches that preach homosexuality is [...]
Too many items to comment on today, but here’s the roundup of my favorites:
Montgomery County, Md, ‘Homeland Security’ officers try to police porn in local library; librarians successfully kick them out. One wonders what color their shirts were (brown, anyone?).
Virus targeting Macs is slowly spreading. My favorite quote: “One software expert who examined [...]
In case you live in DC and missed it, taxi fares went up today.
Rosa Parks to lie in honor at the Capitol.
Rosa Parks, the African American seamstress who refused to give up her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Ala., 50 years ago and lent a spark to the beginnings of the modern civil rights movement, will make history again as the first woman ever [...]