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If there's an original thought out there, I could use it right now... and by the way, I stole that too.

Fox News infested by bed bugs. Fox News’s senior vice president for operations and engineering, Warren Vandeveer, admitted to the New York Times yesterday that Fox’s Midtown Manhattan newsroom was recently infested with bed bugs.

John 'Foreign Policy Expert' McCain Unfamiliar With Sunni/Shia Roles in Iraq Sen. John McCain, traveling in the Middle East to promote his foreign policy expertise, misidentified in remarks Tuesday which broad category of Iraqi extremists are allegedly receiving support from Iran.

March 17

“ What our service men and women have accomplished over there has been nothing short of astounding. Though you never hear about it in the media. God has not abandoned us. More targeting the base: God is backing the United States in Iraq.

Targeting the base. From Tony in our office.

March 16

Via FakeSteve… God I wish this was a parody.

Trying the Times LC Style

I’m giving up my RSS feed habit for the morning, and am going to try reading the NYTimes online like Lindsay does, “cover to cover”.

I love reading the paper version this way, but have never tried it online. My pre2k eyes are just not used to consuming that quantity of written word on a computer screen linearly. I’m a browser, a scanner.

But I love me some Sunday NYT, so we’ll see how it goes.

Interview with the creator of the new John Adams series on HBO

imarks:

Unwinding at the imeem party after our MobLogic launch extravaganza!

March 15

lindsaycampbell:

I’m proud of this episode. I think we succeeded, though the show and the comment board, at getting some people thinking about this issue who didn’t know “The Decider” was primed to veto it.

In Alabama, a Crackdown on Pregnant Drug Users Over an 18-month period, at least eight women have been prosecuted for using drugs while pregnant in this rural jurisdiction of barely 37,000, a tally without any recent parallel that women’s advocates have been able to find. The district attorney, Greg L. Gambril, acknowledges the number puts him at the “forefront,” at least among Alabama prosecutors. Similar cases have come up elsewhere, usually with limited success. But Alabama, and in particular this hilly, remote terrain just above the Florida Panhandle, is pursuing these cases with special vigor.