Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Crime, Libel and hype Headlines below the fold

One author writing an "ain't she awful" book on Sarah Palin is threatening to sue another "ain't she awful" book author.

Why buy either one? as Salon puts it:

New book about Sarah Palin confirms what you know about Sarah Palin

"Ain't it awful" books are easy to write and sell: nuanced insightful books are such a bore...

As I wrote in 2009 it's the "Heathers factor"...

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Even Mordor can trash Aragorn and Frodo. download HERE.

Yeah, but this film already did it:



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Illegal small mining opersions contributed to the flooding and landslides in Samar.

I'm ambivalent about this: getting mining companies to invest will produce jobs and you can regulate them if they pollute, but corruption encourages regulators to look the other way and whistleblowers are easily "eliminated", so you have a problem:
because the alternative may not be no mining and pristine environment, but "do it yourself" mining that endangers both the miners and the environment.

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Who are the worst polluters in the UK? Old people, who take cars and taxis instead of walking, who keep the thermostat up in their large houses instead of living in a cold one room flat, and who eat at restaurants instead of cooking at home.

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USAToday has a post on the Jack Wheeler murder mystery.

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and Orange County remembers the good guys killed by Somali pirates ...

Another newspaper derided them as "Bible Thumpers", but a closer look shows they attended the same parish church as Martin Sheen and Brooke Shields (according toGetReligion)


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Hamas, for the second time, tries to eliminate male hair stylists from cutting ladies hair in Gaza.

Guess Pinoy hairdressers can cross Gaza off their list for jobs.


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Hackers one, hatemongers zero

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