Monday, July 15, 2002

Wake Them When It's Over: Apparently the sex appeal of the corporate crime wave story the dems find so angering to the blood just isn't enticing enough for the average Joe and Jane. Here's the latest poll on a subject that's a political nonstarter.

Today's Ka-Ching Thing: There are several stories on the board this morning regarding Arafat shipping wads and wads of donated dough out of harm's way: i.e. demands to spend it on sewers, housing, hospitals, electricity and schools. This one is from the Sydney Morning Herald (just to show our reach). Let us know if you find someone who is surprised at this.

Got Martha News Hunger? Is it beginning to look as though the media is more interested in Martha Stewart's problems than the rest of the world is? This story hasn't really moved since she menaced poor Jane Clayson with the cabbage chopper. Here's the NYTimes attempting to get one or two drops more by squeezing an already "squozed" lemon.

Believe Nothing: Last week was a bad one for myths and their subsequent debunking. First, the HRT pills women have been hoovering for twenty years were deemed killers, then we learned that anyone who was fool enough to let doctors cure their arthritic knees by cutting and scraping had been had - now the 8 million year old human skull found in Chad turns out to be a lady monkey. Maybe we should chill a tad before we get too excited about Harken/Halliburton et al.

A Star is Born: If you read this early enough you'll be able to catch State Department detainee and National Review reporter Joel Mowbray's appearances on ABC's Good Morning America and then on CNN's American Morning. Also, he's scheduled on The O'Reilly Factor later in the day. As far as we're concerned he should be on a box of Wheaties soon. Howard Kurtz reported this on Saturday but here's the Wall Street Journal's take today.

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