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January 10th, 2005 The new backgrounds are really old backgrounds from a set called Propaganda. The entire set can be found here, but be forewarned - its 51 megabytes. I like them, and will be showcasing them as backgrounds for the rest of the year, one per week. I'll try and rotate the banners as well, but there's no promises made with those. So the CBS Memogate report actually exists, unlike Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster. Most people are going to be bloviating today about how it shows the MSM (oh how I hate that moniker) is out of touch, how Dan Rather should have been fired, how its a whitewash, how it shows just how slow the old media is, etc. etc. ditto ditto. So I have a question for those hoping for a modicum of transparency: What were you expecting, and why? This is the CBS internal version of MonicaGate, with a media bias twist: a lie is perpetrated, the truth is proclaimed, the lie defended, the truth realized in full, the lie backed away from, with no real effect in the short term but a lasting effect in the long term. CBS took the story and ran with it - Clinton lied about having sex. The blogs researched and exposed the story - Monica Lewinsky and Linda Tripp came forward. CBS defended - Clinton denied. I could go on but I think you get the picture by now. This will not do anything to CBS in the short term, but will permanently degrade their effectiveness as a news source for the long term. Just as Bill Clinton will be remembered as a general failure 20 or more years from now. CBS has, of course, missed a real opportunity for internal reform and the consequential image repair. The blew it, but should you have really expected cathartic behavior from a company whose bias was in favor of someone who was not cathartic when his problems came to the forefront? The Unknown Blog feature is going to become a regular "column" of
sorts, on Wednesdays. Every day I'll have something
It was the gun Tom Selleck used in the movie Quigley Down Under. The NRA and Tom Selleck are giving away the Quigley rifle, as in the one from the movie. The movie rifle is a replica of the original 1874 Sharps, which had a 30 inch barrel. The replica adds four inches to that length, making for one very powerful firestick. It shoots a big cartridge - a .45 inch wide bullet launched by the equivalent of 110 grains of black powder. The cartridge is almost four inches long and almost half an inch wide. If you're wondering what that kind of damage that much flying lead can do, take a look at this. That was a bowling pin shot with a .45-70 at 20 yards. The .45-110 has a touch (okay, almost two-thirds) more powder, and therefore power, behind it. Here's the in-kind link to Kim du Toit and his insane gun predilection. If you want some heavy-duty gun coverage, check him out. The Sharps name was very big in the post-Civil War arms business. They had provided arms to Mr. Berdan's sharpshooters in the war and were innovators in the muzzleloader-to-cartridge arms changeover in the late 1860s and 1870s. Original Sharps rifles are highly prized collectors items. A history note: Today in 1776 Common Sense was published. Read it, and wonder again that people think there is a separation of church and state when the inspirational documents for the Constitution denounce public control of the church and encourage church oversight of the state. Home & Garden TV is one of those stations you watch when you are extremely bored (if you don't own a home) or extremely enraptured (if you do own a home). Saturday Jen & I spent the mid-day making decorating plans and prepping the backyard. We're planting grass this spring, and we have to figure out where we're going to put the trees, gardens, roses, and observatory. This is where HGTV comes in - they broadcast, on the hour, every hour, the same how-to show on remodeling your backyard. They tweak the shows - a different host, a different title - but its the same people with the same houses in the same part of the country. They insert various little bits that are customized for the situation, and its these bits that we addicts watch for, like a heroin addict looking for his dealer's pimpmobile. We think oh, that chair with the seat cut out and replaced with a planter box would look wonderful in the backyard, right next to the bamboo awning. Despite the fact that we live in a place with winds that would knock over said awning, spilling the said useless chair. Oh, to be the person with editorial control over those shows. That would be fun. |
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