Enough said. Bye, bye, W. Thomas Smith, Jr.

So, W. Thomas Smith, Jr., who criticized me for a post I made earlier this year by declaring his holier-than-thou reporting and fact-checking methods, seems to have run into quite a bit of trouble himself over his “reporting” in the Middle East. The story is all over the Web, but the Columbia Journalism Review blog [...]

Religious right wingnuts American Family Association are attempting to get the military to stop selling Playboy and Penthouse wherever fine reading material is sold on bases. By law, most skin mags can’t be sold in military stores. Playboy and Penthouse aren’t deemed scandalous enough to fall under those regulations, though. When I was in Air [...]

It’s a pissing contest to see who South Carolina’s favorite son really is! As CNN reports: Comedian Stephen Colbert brought his mock presidential campaign to the capital of South Carolina Sunday, where he was declared “favorite son” by the mayor of Columbia and given the key to the city. Colbert, a native of Charleston, told [...]

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that [Stephen] Colbert is preferred by 13% of voters as an independent candidate challenging Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Rudy Giuliani. The survey was conducted shortly after Colbert’s surprise announcement that he is lusting for the Oval Office. The result is similar when Fred Thompson is the [...]

A new poll looks at the support for Stephen Colbert’s faux presidential campaign among Democrats and Republicans: Public Opinion Strategies, a Republican polling firm, recently completed a national poll of 1,000 likely 2008 voters that included Colbert’s name in both the GOP and Democratic primaries. (He has announced his plans to run in both the [...]

What You Missed If You Didn’t Read Today’s NYTimes No need to worry about poor and elderly minorities being disenfranchised by new Voter ID laws. They’re disenfranchised by death before it becomes a problem, according to the Bush administration’s civil rights czar. The Marines get fashion conscious. The Maine Middle School Contraceptive Controversy: “It brings [...]

I don’t believe I’ve ever listened to the band The Thermals before, but I’m definitely going to have to now. As one story notes, “The Body, The Blood, The Machine,” the band’s third full-length, was produced by Fugazi‘s Brendan Canty, released by Sub Pop and tells the fictitious tale of a young couple attempting to [...]

So much for hating us for our freedom. As much as we hear about Middle Easterners hating Americans, they obviously don’t have a problem with our television, music and fashion: MTV Arabia, a new 24-hour free satellite channel, will begin broadcasting in Arabic across the Middle East on Nov. 16. The Viacom-owned network’s flagship show, [...]

What you missed if you didn’t read today’s The New York Times: In a story detailing problems with the Bush administration push for Medicare enrollees to utilize private plans for the new drug benefit comes this nugget: In March, Sierra Health Services ended drug coverage for more than 2,300 Medicare beneficiaries with H.I.V./AIDS, saying they [...]