Yeah, this hasn't exactly been a stellar week for my profession:
The fast-moving news out of Boston on Wednesday snared some of the most respected reporters and news outlets in the country into offering false or conflicting information about whether a suspect had been arrested — leaving CNN and the Associated Press, among others, scrambling to clean up their reports as the day went on.
This is one of the stupidest things you'll read all week:
Today is one of our favorite days to celebrate:
OK, I admit it. I'm a sucker for super heroes. "Man of Steel," the new Superman movie coming out in June, seems worth a try:
Oh my gosh, this seems like common sense in Congress:
A spokesman for Florida Sen. Marco Rubio says a hearing scheduled Wednesday in the Senate on the comprehensive immigration reform effort being pushed by the the Republican and seven other senators will be postponed until the end of the week.
Most asinine response to the Boston bombing so far. We have a tie. Hey, we have a three-way tie. First up, the obligatory celebrity babble:
Actor and comedian Jay Mohr waded into the gun debate on Twitter after Monday’s deadly terrorist attacks at the Boston Marathon.
They needed a study to discover what anyone who's ever been around a woman for five minutes already knows?
It's a cliché that men just don't understand women.
Now, new research suggests men really do struggle to read women's emotions — at least from their eyes.
I've been resisting the urge to add my useless chatter to all the useless chatter already out there about the Bost massacre, but I thought this worthy of comment:
President Obama said Tuesday that the "heinous" attack on the Boston Marathon is being treated as an "act of terrorism," while investigators try to determine whether the bombing was the work of a terrorist group or "malevolent individual."
One of the best allies we ever had, and this is the respect we show:
Friends and allies of Baroness Thatcher expressed ‘surprise and disappointment’ last night as it emerged President Obama is not planning to send any serving member of his administration to her funeral.
While Purdue wastes its time studying silly stuff like why some stutterers grow out of it and some don't, Indiana University picks up the slack with this truly groundbreaking research:
Just tasting cold, refreshing beer -- with no influence from alcohol -- make increase your desire to get drunk.
I think this even beats the guy calling in to police to report himself for drunk driving:
IONIA, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan judge whose smartphone disrupted a hearing in his own courtroom has held himself in contempt and paid $25 for the infraction.
The libertarian vision, explained in a single Tweet:
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (www.incnow.tv) – Confidentiality is the idea behind Gun Amnesty Day, an event coming up next weekend where FWPD will collect guns.
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Next Saturday (April 20), you can head to 2135 S. Hanna Street, at the Urban League parking lot, and turn in any ammunition and or guns, no questions asked.
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Listen up, fellow bloggers -- you, too, are journalists:
I know it's a risky prediction to make, but surely this will end up being the strangest thing I read the whole month:
Justin Bieber has caused outrage after leaving a 'tasteless' comment in the guestbook at the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam.
As someone who now consumes about half his reading material with dead-tree editions and half with e-readers, I found this interesting:
