Update on Kobayashi Maru’s brother
Last week I blogged about the news that fellow blogger Kobayashi Maru’s brother had been told the devastating news that his leukemia had returned and that he had been given a 5% chance to live.
From around the blogosphere …
Here are some noteworthy posts from around the blogosphere for your reading enjoyment this evening:
Media hypocrisy watch
Seth at Say Anything notes the media’s hypocrisy (yes, I know using the word "media" and "hypocrisy" in the same sentence is a bit redundant but anyway …) regarding their round-the-clock coverage of Pat Robertson’s advocation for Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s assassination (Pat has apologized, BTW) versus their scant coverage of Clinton senior advisor George Stephanopoulos, who wrote a piece for Newsweek back in 1997 that had the headline: Why We Should Kill Saddam.
NYTimes spins good news into bad
This is just yet one more reason to question the media’s objectivity (or lack thereof) and a classic example of spinning positive news into negative. And Col. Thomas Spoehr is not happy. Kelly says:
Comments Part 2
As noted a couple of days ago, I disabled my Spam Karma 2 as there were still some posts getting through that SK2 wasn’t blocking but should have been and in addition to that, I had a couple of other issues with SK2. So I started using Word Press’ blacklist and moderation features which seems to be working well.