Month: June 2006

Glenn Reynolds at Instapundit has a post up with plenty of links concerning Jerome Armstrong, Markos Moulitsas, and what appears to be an effort by blogs to smother MSM reports with silence. If blogs can impact MSM coverage by widening the discussion and sometimes breaking and doing the groundwork on a story, can they also kill a story just by ignoring it?

630pm UPDATE: Shaun’s got a brief take on this.

Also, to tie this in with Virginia, Jerome Armstrong heads up the internet strategy side of of Mark Warner’s Forward Together PAC.

6/22 922am UPDATE: Chad had some good info on this back on Tuesday as well as it’s potential impact on Warner.

White Sox Manager Ozzie Guillen was kinda upset the other day:

Angry with a recent column by Mariotti critical of Guillen’s handling of recently demoted relief pitcher Sean Tracey and upset with Mariotti with columns of the past, Guillen said to reporters when referring to Mariotti before Tuesday’s game with the Cardinals, “What a piece of [expletive] he is, [expletive] fag.”

In his defense:

Guillen said that in his native Venezuela, that word is not a reference to a person’s sexuality, but to his courage. He said he was saying that Mariotti is “not man enough to meet me and talk about [things before writing].”

Guillen also told Couch that he has gay friends, attends WNBA games, went to a Madonna concert and plans to go to the Gay Games in Chicago.

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Wow.

In summary:

He didn’t quite hit that mark Tuesday, though he took a heck of a whack at it in the form of a particularly expressive attack on one of his favorite media targets. In the span of 102 seconds, Guillen leveled 25 words one generally cannot read in a family newspaper at the Sun-Times’ Jay Mariotti.

For those scoring at home, there were 14 variations of the f-word, five s-words, three a-words, a b-word, a G.D. and the straw that broke the camel’s back, a three-letter reference either to Mariotti’s sexuality or British slang for a cigarette.

It also means he’s a coward in Venezuelan slang. They forgot that part.

Majority Votes to Legalize Whaling

A slim majority of nations on the International Whaling Commission voted Sunday in support of legalizing commercial whaling.

The vote—33 for and 32 against, with one abstention—fell short of the three-quarters majority needed to overturn the 20-year ban on commercial whaling.

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“Many species and stocks of whales are abundant and sustainable whaling is possible,” the motion read.

Pro-whaling nations argue the abundant whale populations are depleting fish stocks important to the livelihood of small island nations.

“That carries virtually no scientific credibility,” Read said.

Frighteningly hilarious. Found via Home Slice.

Todd Alcott has some very interesting thoughts on super villany.

…you sue it for $30 million. Since MySpace is supposed to be a parent now can I ask it for an allowance?

Lauren Gelman, associate director of the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School, said she does not think MySpace is legally responsible for what happens away from its site.

“If you interact on MySpace, you are safe, but if a 13-year-old or 14-year-old goes out in person and meets someone she doesn’t know, that is always an unsafe endeavor,” Gelman said. “We need to teach our kids to be wary of strangers.”

Yep.