Thursday, March 5, 2009

Getting It Out of the Way...

I would like to humbly apologize to Rush Limbaugh for all the negative things I will be saying about him in the coming weeks and months here. In most cases, my remarks will be taken out of context and/or grossly misunderstood.

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Recommended Reading

Fox News Polls are usually slanted a bit in their questioning, the better to get responses that support the network's agenda. Most polls connected with any sort of idealogue sponsor do this to some extent but the Fox News polls are especially interesting in that they don't always yield the kind of results that the network wanted. Take a look at this blog post by Eric Kleefeld, noting how a new survey says that America is happier with Barack Obama's economic policies than they would be with Ronald Reagan's.

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Today's Video Link

Just in case you haven't seen this: It's a computer animation re-creation of the infamous Flight 1549 that landed in the Hudson River...

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Past Times

The L.A. Times has a blog that offers nuggets of Los Angeles history, usually in the form of scans of old newspaper clippings. There's lots of good stuff there including a look at how the Times comic strip page looked in January of '59 and news stories on the deaths of Raymond Chandler, Ernie Kovacs and Lou Costello. You might also like to read about how Dalton Trumbo revealed he'd written under a pen name while blacklisted and how Mary Astor admitted to her affair with playwright George S. Kaufman. Have a look around.

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