Commemorating the 5th anniversory of a war that has killed 89,760 civilians, 3991 US soilders, and wounded 29,314, here is a list of today's must-see multimedia:
*Chilling stories form soldiers who served on the frontlines of Iraq -- much like the Winter Soldier Vietnam Testimonies in '71, and, like the '71 testimonties, the MSM ignored it.
Freelance writer and editor Nancy Nall Derringer was reading a column in the News-Sentinel of Fort Wayne by Tim Goeglein, top Bush aide, when she came across this line:
A notable professor of philosophy at Dartmouth College in the last century, Eugene Rosenstock-Hussey, expressed the matter succinctly…
She thought it was “merely a case of egregiously obscure name-dropping,” so she googled the line to see how ‘notable’ the professor really was.
Upon googling, she found that the entire sentence was lifted completely from an article in the Dartmouth Review.
After she posted her findings on her blog, she and readers of her blog searched around at other columns written by Goegien. By the end of the day, they found that 20 out of 38 of his columns since 2000 have been “cut-and-paste columns.”
Goeglein resigned less than 12 hours after Derringer’s post, she reports.
Most ironic part of this story: Goegien spelled the professor’s name wrong. If he would’ve spelled the professor's name correctly then his column would’ve been buried in google, but his spelling error revealed his plagiarism.
It’s amazing how this columnist’s journalistic career, as Derringer’s title implies, lost all its integrity in 60 seconds.
Blogs are the new everything. Just add fierce media watchdog and career-destroyer to the list.
Most of us aren't yet parents as Emily Bazelon is. Yet her questioning of how her kids perceive their Prius in this great article poses some great queries. "Do they think we're doing our small bit to save the Earth," she asks, "or are they imbibing a look-at-me smugness?
Timothy Noah of Slate reports that despite the Justice Department's crackdown on cartels--illegal in the US--for computer memory chips, vitamins, and rubber, the price-fixing oil giant OPEC still has the adament support of the Bush Administration.
"OPEC is just about the only international organization that President Bush has any regard for. . . Bush is worried that busting OPEC might give Russia too free a hand in setting oil prices. . . busting OPEC would weaken two of Bush's least-favorite regimes, Iran and Venezuela..."
In 2000, Sen. Herb Kohl (D-WI) drafted a bill, nicknamed "NOPEC," that said OPEC is operating illegally--in violation with antitrust laws. The bill didn't go anywhere in 2000. But this Spring Kohl is rehashing the issue and it gaining bipartisan support in Congress.
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