Eventually, the courtiers at Versailles got too witty for their own good. Tired of our Villagers and their inability to speak with honesty and self reflection? Try this instead. It’s totally possible to love someone you’ve never met, and to be made a romantic again by a single post…

I HAD WANTED in some way to remember Lt. Ehren Watada, as this anniversary of the Iraq Invasion passed us. Remember him? Yeah. Mad respect for this cat. But the media has drowned out that story, it’s slipped away, they lost it…we’ve moved on to Jeremiah Wright and other pressing matters. Here’s to you, sir. You are one of the heroes of this war to me.
You know who was a real Citizen Journalist? Brad Will. I feel trapped into making cute video cookies with my weekly deadline. I want to haul my ass down to the ruins of Katrina or spend weeks getting next to some hidden or ignored truth that the public needs to know about spend time building a story, building rapport, investigating, planning…and really busting out wild with something that matters. This is jingles and I want to do a concept album. I feel I am chasing snacky, quickly rotating headlines. Hey, don’t get me wrong. It’s a way to pay some bills. And I am proud of winning it. But I long to do some good in the face of all the harm being dropped down on so many out there. And I’m more a part of a corporate entertainment empire now than I am in being a useful eye for the public. That’s how I’m feeling lately, at least.  Read more 

Update: Video here. Heh. Miked wiped the floor with those fools.

My buddy Mike Rogers, who has a hand in the circuses at both Page1Q and Raw is going into the lion’s den again tonight. Fox, no less, “Hannity and Colmes” I believe it’s called. At 9pE. Mike is wicked smart and is going to make them choke on their tongues, without breaking a sweat. I expect it’ll be fun. So just this once, turn it on and have some fun as the blogosphere decimates the SCLM, live. headslap Oh, and, he’s the guy who brought you Larry Craig, so if you’re grateful, send him a buck or two. Without Mike MN thrones would’ve been playgrounds for Republican predators for decades to come…  Read more 

Cold.

Time Inc. began laying off more than 250 people today at its top magazines, including its most profitable title, People, which said it was shutting down its Washington, Miami and Chicago bureaus entirely.

Time and Sports Illustrated also expected staff layoffs.
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Employees in those bureaus said they were “shell-shocked,” as the news was delivered by speakerphone from New York by Larry Hackett, People’s managing editor.  Read more