Bill Drake; RIP Radio Programming Wiz

From Radio Buddy Scott Fybush, we get news about the passing of one of the key players in Radio duing my time in that business:

Bill Drake spent most of his career out west, but the wizard of streamlined

We see by way of the Halifax Chronicle-Herald that Ted Rodgers has died.

Ted’s father was a radio pioneer at CFRB. As a result of Ted’s leadership, and some luck of course, the company now owns most of the big

From Fox, we get this important news:

The chairman of the British Lap Dancing Association, speaking at a legislative hearing Tuesday, made an odd assertion, given his livelihood — a lap dance is “not sexually stimulating,” he said, the

And as if by magic, or perhaps more correctly by way of some evil curse, 175 ballots show up in the Franken Coleman race, giving Franken a net gain of 37.  Total difference, ~50 or so.

Forgive me, but I

WordPress v2.7RC1 is up at the WordPress and looking pretty good.

If you’re a blogger, and want a peek here’s where to look behind the scenes.

It’s quite a change from the interface WP has had for the last few

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• December the second, already. That means only 22 shopping days left until Christmas. Always assuming the war on Christmas doesn’t succeed. I’ll get to

Fox’s SPECIAL REPORT last night:

Six members of the Congressional Black Caucus may have violated House ethics rules by attending a three-day conference paid for by a number of powerful corporations early last month on the Caribbean island of Saint

Finally… There is, occasionally, justice.

BAGHDAD -Fox- A special Iraqi court sentenced Saddam Hussein’s notorious cousin, “Chemical Ali” Hassan al-Majid, to death Tuesday after convicting him of crimes against humanity for his part in crushing the 1991 Shiite uprising in

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• First day of December, today is.  Yeah, I know you know this. I’m saying it out of wonder at the passage of time.

From Channel 13 in Birmingham Alabama:

Andrea Lindenberg and Rod Carter
Published: December 1, 2008  Birmingham Mayor Larry Langford was arrested Monday and the 101-count indictment against him has been unsealed.

This morning, U.S. Attorney Alice Martin announced that

I remakred the other day  about “Baby P”

As an update for you…

The BBC dryly reports what little consequence has come out of this horror

Three people have been suspended on full pay from Haringey Council after a “damning”

From the American Thinker today, comes Larrey Anderson:

Conservatism needs a fresh start. It is losing arguments … and it is losing elections. One person, more than any other (even more than John McCain), has caused this: President George

The London Daily Mail’s Ian Gallagher:

The only terrorist captured alive after the Mumbai massacre has given police the first full account of the extraordinary events that led to it – revealing he was ordered to ‘kill until the last

To a conservative, anyone who advocates building an ideal society by the use of reason-based theories is a ‘Utopian liberal’ because following Burke and Russel Kirk they do not believe in the unlimited power of reason.
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Some of Clark’s

I wish this guy issued transcripts.