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  Monday, 31 October 2005


Bill O'Reilly called himself a Coward!


Bill O'Reilly called himself a Coward!

That's right, it's not only me that thinks Billie boy is a coward after he refuses to confront Media Matters while he attacks them. He admits as much himself. Let's read what he has to say from the Nit Picker: January 5, 2004 "Finally, the mail... John Wright, "The Herald Journal," Logan, Utah, "I graduated from one of the best journalism schools in the country, the University of Florida. You, Bill, are not a journalist. You spew propaganda.

"For example, you said the journalism professors from Rutgers and Lehigh were cowards because they would not come on THE FACTOR. That's not true. Maybe they simply didn't want to appear."

Well, I'm sorry, Mr. Wright. If you attack someone publicly, as these men did to me, you have an obligation to face the person you are smearing. If you don't, you are a coward. Wise up, sir.

The NP has many more of Bill lampooning himself. Good job. What say you Bill, are you a coward, a liar or does your logic only apply to other people? Am I smearing you or are you smearing yourself?

[Crooks and Liars]
11:37:24 PM    
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Ralph Franke joins Gumbo Ya Ya


Tenor sax player Ralph Franke has joined Gumbo Ya Ya, replacing Terry Jones.
Ralph is a great player I first met in 1979 or thereabouts. He has a history with some Gumbo members who were Rhythm Willie alumni, Charli Holoubek and John (Johann) Coultas. He also played in the Z-Brass, the horn section for the highly influential Vitamin Z for which Eric Stevenson was the singer.

11:23:08 PM    
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Quit urges total ban on indoor smoking


The anti-smoking lobby group Quit says it is disappointing that South Australians will have to wait another two years for total smoking bans in pubs and clubs.

I hate smoking. Having said that, I've waited all my life for a smoking ban; I can wait two more years if I have to.

[ABC News: Health]
10:56:24 PM    
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Bad Mags: compilation of really bad magazines



Cory Doctorow: Bad Mags is a website companion to a forthcoming (?) book of the same name, which catalogs gross-out girly, drugsploitation, true-crime and biker mags from the golden age of such things:
The main reason I wrote Bad Mags was because I wished I had had something comparable when I started looking for and collecting these magazines--a guide if you will. Because Bad Mags attempts to cover such a large selection of subject matter any chapter included in it could have been its own book. Bad Mags is not a complete listing of the magazines and tabloids covering these particular subjects (if such a thing were possible), but is an attempt to give a more complete picture of what was published concerning them at the time.

Beyond that Bad Mags is a book devoted to strange, bizarre and peripheral magazines because the back alleys of the publishing industry have been little explored in print. In most cases there isn't any information readily available, limited only to the information given in the periodical itself.

Oh, yeah, this is bad - or good.

NSFW Link

(via We Make Money Not Art) [Boing Boing]
10:49:48 PM    

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Gates pledges millions to fight malaria


Microsoft founder Bill Gates has pledged $US258.3 million ($A343.7 million) for research and development to combat malaria, including new cash to test the world's first vaccine against the mosquito-borne disease.

Onya Bill.

[ABC News: Health]
10:37:12 PM    
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