Thursday, January 15, 2004
Cut the Losses, get the votes?
Cut the Losses, get the votes? Bush's self-serving Iraq war exit strategy is examined by Rick Perlstein in "Last Copter out of Baghdad." (Village Voice)
U.S. Soldiers' Suicide Rate Is Up in Iraq (ABC News)
Related reading: "21 Suicides: U.S. Soldiers in Iraq are killing themselves at a high rate" by Chuck Bennett on the cover of today's amNewYork free paper (no weblink available).
Word is Carole Moseley Braun has dropped out of the race for the Democratic nomination for president and is throwing her support to Howard Dean (at least according to the news on, ahem, The Howard Stern Show) but I can't find any articles online confirming this.
Image courtesy: HipHopGame.com
The Eminem-cover Source w/ the infamous 20 second snippet of his racist teen raps is on stands now? Do I need to really cop that? (UPDATE: I guess not, The Source article is now available, via HipHopGame.com, by clicking here)
Buy the Beastie Boys' Grand Royal record label via auction for $10,000. Damn, I think copies of issue 1 of Grand Royal magazine might be worth more than that on eBay. Related reading: The Beastie Boys' label up for grabs online. (Ananova)
Related reading: Radio Sees Nirvana of the 90's in Its Future. (New York Times)
I never thought there would be any reason ever that I would go to a Britney Spears show. Until now. (EURWeb)
Feargal Sharkey, lead singer for legendary teen pop-punk band The Undertones, has become a suit (and for the government, no less)? (Guardian UK)
Teenage girl's x-ray vision baffles scientists. (Ananova)
Media news:
'USA Weekend' Prints Unintended Racial Slur: A racial epithet was inadvertently embedded into the background text of an illustration in the upcoming edition of USA Weekend, according to the publication. (Editor & Publisher)
From the No-Surprise dept.: Did CBS News Buy Another Story? Jilted ABC Says Yes, They Did. (New York Observer)
Roger Ames also catches a bad one over at the Warner Music Group. (New York Post)
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U.S. Soldiers' Suicide Rate Is Up in Iraq (ABC News)
Related reading: "21 Suicides: U.S. Soldiers in Iraq are killing themselves at a high rate" by Chuck Bennett on the cover of today's amNewYork free paper (no weblink available).
Word is Carole Moseley Braun has dropped out of the race for the Democratic nomination for president and is throwing her support to Howard Dean (at least according to the news on, ahem, The Howard Stern Show) but I can't find any articles online confirming this.
Image courtesy: HipHopGame.com
The Eminem-cover Source w/ the infamous 20 second snippet of his racist teen raps is on stands now? Do I need to really cop that? (UPDATE: I guess not, The Source article is now available, via HipHopGame.com, by clicking here)
Buy the Beastie Boys' Grand Royal record label via auction for $10,000. Damn, I think copies of issue 1 of Grand Royal magazine might be worth more than that on eBay. Related reading: The Beastie Boys' label up for grabs online. (Ananova)
Related reading: Radio Sees Nirvana of the 90's in Its Future. (New York Times)
I never thought there would be any reason ever that I would go to a Britney Spears show. Until now. (EURWeb)
Feargal Sharkey, lead singer for legendary teen pop-punk band The Undertones, has become a suit (and for the government, no less)? (Guardian UK)
Teenage girl's x-ray vision baffles scientists. (Ananova)
Media news:
'USA Weekend' Prints Unintended Racial Slur: A racial epithet was inadvertently embedded into the background text of an illustration in the upcoming edition of USA Weekend, according to the publication. (Editor & Publisher)
From the No-Surprise dept.: Did CBS News Buy Another Story? Jilted ABC Says Yes, They Did. (New York Observer)
Roger Ames also catches a bad one over at the Warner Music Group. (New York Post)
