The MLB commissioned Mitchell report is useless. In the AP Styleguide's libel section, the mention of AP v. Walker said that the case was just one of many that went to the Supreme Court, and the SCOTUS said, "...Walker was a public man in whose public conduct society and the press had a legitimate interest."
Baseball players are public figures, so if Roger Clemens (the little dear) wants to sue for libel, he'll lose.
As for the report itself, it's as helpful to the Republic as any other time you can recall a senator waving a piece of paper with x number of names on it. Next stop, Capitol Hill where the Congress will hold special hearings with MLB Bud Selig and MLB union head Donald Fehr. That will be in the same committee that can apparently hold hearings on especially important problems that require our legislature's immediate attention. Like sports.
Which are your favorite sites for shopping online?
Blackwater Online ProShop
http://proshop.blackwaterusa.com/
What are your irrational fears?
Submitted by Dan Culhane.
Fred Durst losing the Presidential race.
The Golden State Warriors moving to San Jose.
An obsession with Fluvog shoes.
Losing my obsession with Magic Johnson.
Being a woman and Knick Executive and Hall of Fame point guard Isaiah Thomas developing an obsession.
Google's obsession with the winning the FCC frequency lottery.
People who, when under oath before the Senate Judicial Committee, obsessively wagging their fingers.
Disappointing Clivus Multrum.
- Total number of NSL requests from 2000 (prior to passage of the Patriot Act): about 8,500.
- Total number of NSL requests from 2003-2005 (after passage of the Patriot Act): 143,074.
- 2003: 39,346
- 2004: 56,507
- 2005: 47,221
- Percentage of NSL requests generated from investigations of U.S. Persons:
- 2003: about 39%
- 2004: about 51%
- 2005: about 53%
- Type of investigation connected to NSL requests (2003 through 2005):
- Counterterrorism: 73.6%
- Counterintelligence: 26%
- Foreign Cyber Investigations: 0.4%
[pdf] Full document is available at: http://www.usdoj.gov/oig/special/s0703b/final.pdf
From the Committee for Concerned Journalists, here a fairly useful list of ethics standards of various publications:
http://www.concernedjournalists.org/tools/filter/64
I especially like Bob Williams article from the Raleigh News and Observer comparing his ethics to his underpants:
http://www.concernedjournalists.org/ethics-journalisms-underpants
Write your own Wikipedia entry for yourself (or share the link if you already have one).
Matthew Margolin (b. 13 September 1966) is an American editor for the World Wide Web. A controversial figure when he arrived on the Internet scene, since his days of refusing to give more than 40% and his occasional supercilious need to expound about his theory, "Quantity is Job One."
Following a weekend retreat at Bohemian Grove with Clivus Multrum, Margolin had a spiritual awakening. He returned to work and vowed to give 42% from then on.
Like all white, liberal educated, males of his age, Mr. Margolin could not qualify for his bachelor's degree without playing the guitar and performing in several band. Although some say he should have quit after writing his first song "Guitar Shop Dude" in 1987, later his band the Smokin' Rhythm Prawns released "All You Can Eat" (Big and Smelly 001). No matter the faults or merits of this album, Mr. Margolin became very good at spelling the word "Rhythm" over the telephone. Later he joined Black Kali Ma, a motley crew made of a Lakota Sioux, a Pole, lilly-white fingered Jewish boy (Margolin), and the pride of Palestine, TX, Gary Floyd (Dicks, Sister Double Happiness).
Black Kali Ma became the first band on their label Alternative Tentacles to be reviewed in Rolling Stone magazine. The album sold five thousand copies. Margolin learned that major labels release 30000 albums per year, and that if you sell five thousand you are in 95% in sales.
Currently, Margolin continues his prolific creative and professional output and recently quaified for the IOCC Slacker Olympics.
I was walking down the street with my mortgage broker cousin in LA over Thanksgiving. He said, "You know, I grew up in Ohio and am forbidden from crossing a picket line. But I don't get this strike. You don't know where the money's gonna come from? Then do a percentage. Right? I'm no expert but it just seems too easy."
The offer to the writer's for hour long episodes aired on the Internet? US$250. They offered a percentage. No dice.
I don't know anything about a lot of things, but I really don't know anything about entertainment law. But this smells like a fart sandwich.
Huelga anybody?
He looked me in the eye and said, "you can walk out of this press conference and buy a nano at any apple store." I did (because I loved the nano so much), but the Apple store had none of them or any of the other iPod family. Months passed. I bought one on eBay.
Then I bought a new MacBook from the Apple store. I paid for overnight delivery. After a few weeks passed, I checked my order status: a) first time "order status" was down (fair enough), b) second time it said that my order for _two_ macbooks hadn't been shipped.
I canceled my order and went yesterday to the Apple store in Emeryville and bought my MacBook (and I love it).
Reve Robs, however, I do not love.
And he's one Presidential campaign ad away from joining the real rogues gallery. It's the the Silicon Valley Pantheon of Entrepeneurs alongside Larry Ellison, John Chambers, Meg Whitman, and the others who appeared in the 2004 television commercial only aired in swing-state Ohio entitled, "Silicon Valley Entrepeneurs for Bush."
If you could perform alongside any artist (actor, dancer, musician, etc.), who would it be, and what would you perform?
Submitted by Kristin.
I would fill out a musical ensemble with Bill Clinton and John Ashcroft. I would then use my understanding of Pythagoras and loud amplification to cause noises that would give them irritable bowel syndrome.
For anyone who plans to fake a press conference, I advise avoiding the pitfalls that FEMA narrowly escaped not plummeting into. FEMA set up a press conference about the Southern California fires and invited the press-- to dial into the video teleconference.
Lo and behold, some of the actual reporters noticed that they weren't at the press conference. The listeners got to hear tough questions about "how happy are you with FEMA's response to this crisis" from people who to their lights appeared not to be members of the press at all. The teleconference was foolproof though, because FEMA set up the meeting so that journalists could listen in but were prevented from asking questions. See? Easy.
According to the New York Times, "John P. Philbin, until last week the agency’s public relations chief, was supposed to start work Monday as the new director of public affairs for the nation’s top intelligence official, Mike McConnell.
But he learned instead that he would not."
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