The Howard Cosell Award: Boston Globe

The Howard Cosell Award for sheer arrogance in ignorance goes to the Boston Globe:

The Hamas campaign to eradicate Fatah from Gaza is certainly not the sole cause of Gazans’ misery. They long suffered from Israel’s suffocating occupation, and

No, Bitsblog has not become a Star Trek board and this is not the latest version of Al Gore.  For those who with the immense good sense not to watch Star Trek: The Next Generation, Odo, pictuired, was a Shape

Brian, Iowa Voice, has a story of some Broward County, Florida politicians who when given a choice between their emergency broadcasts, i.e. hurricane information, being heard on the area’s broadcast leader, or some other weaker station, opted for

Television executives are paid to be smart, or at least feign the appearance of same.  CBS executive Leslie Moonves is not playing the part of a smart man.  Moonves is now attempting to blame the audience, or better yet the

Don Herbert, television’s “Mr Wizard” has died at age eighty-nine.  Lynn Elder, AP Television reports:

LOS ANGELES — Don Herbert, who as television’s “Mr. Wizard” introduced generations of young viewers to the joys of science, died Tuesday. He was 89.

WRAL, Raleigh, reports on the Mike Nifong trial:

RALEIGH, N.C. — A Durham police investigator testified Tuesday afternoon that during an initial briefing with Mike Nifong that the district attorney brought up inconsistencies in the Duke lacrosse accuser’s story

I pulled the article from Don Surber‘s paper, by design.   Kind wonder why Don skipped this one over.  Oh well.

One major difference between real folks, with common sense, like the writers here, and the media and political aristocracy

I don’t mean to be cute about it. OK, I do. By the standard that’s been applied to President Bush, the Democratic Congressional leadership is toast.  Hamstrung and hogtied. Sorry, insensitive choice of words. How about pistol-whipped. Bitchslapped. Lame. L-A-M-E

The National Rifle Association has some 4.3 million dues paying members, for which it is referred to by the main stream media as the “gun lobby.”

In stark contrast, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has about 1,700 dues

Classic Economics says that if price goes up, then demand goes down.  Yet leftards have been trying to ignore economic reality by mindlessly demanding that the price of murder be ignored so as not to offend their sensibilities.

Liberals oppose

Allahpundit, Hot Air, has the video of Dennis Miller trashing Dirty Harry Reid.

H/T: Michelle Malkin.

What I do not like are ignorant bigots who oppose Scouting.  On the other boot, what I love is eternal human spirit that glows when events are the darkest.  The Anchoress has heart warming story about ‘Scouting in Baghdad

Don Surber has outdone himself and posted a one writer circus.   Go read it here.    It seems it was a good week after all.  Here’s hoping Don makes this a regular feature.

I like to hike, a lot, but I just do not understand this:

Outdoor adventurers call this pastime speed hiking. It combines the muscle-building benefits of altitude gain with fast-paced aerobic activity, which keeps heart rates high. Fast hikers usually

The Quote of the Day, and from the be careful for what you wish department, comes from Hassan al-Bazam, 20, resident of the Gaza Strip,  in reference to his Fatah kidnappers:

“These people are real murderers, […] Even the Jews