Newscoma

Heh.

Domo.

It is pretty.

For Claudia, who has disowned me for admitting I ate at McDonald’s which, in my behalf, even grossed me out.

This, campers, is hysterical

Run to see it right now.

Whoa. And I can’t help but agree with him.

I’ve been busier than a one-armed paper hanger with work lately, mostly picking up the project left by a promoted co-worked and getting together SpoletoToday.com. I hope that you guys will help support me in my endeavors on this site, but I’ll whine and plead later. Today, I’m just pissed.

snip because there is a lot of stuff happening in this post.

Have I got a list for you. The defining truth about modern media is what they choose not to cover. The questions they fail to ask. Here’s what they should be talking about. Here are the issues we should be demanding that  Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and John McCain address..

Read the whole thing. He breaks it down about being a journalist in America that is not part of mainstream news right now.

There’s a new blog on the horizon that has a unique concept going on. It’s called Anonymous Idiot

From the About page:

Here are the general traits we’re looking for in our contributers:

• Real bloggers. If your site is a spam site, you’re out for sure. If the primary goal of your site is to sell a product or products, this isn’t for you either. You’re welcome to register and try, but we’re being pretty selective about who we’re accepting, at least for now. We really want to help real bloggers build links and have some fun.
• Good content. One line posts that link back to you site? Can’t use ‘em. This is definitely a free speech site, but have something to say. We don’t want to have to approve every single post…we’re looking for some folks we can hand the keys over to and trust. That will take some time to build, and betraying it will get you axed quickly.

Ability to distinguish between what’s okay and what isn’t. For example, calling the leader of the free world either a “f**ktard” or “the second coming” are not things we would ever censor. But hateful speech, threats of physical violence to other posters or commenters, etc. can’t be tolerated. You should know where that line is. Don’t cross it.

The whole concept is posting things that bug the hell out of you on the lines of something like Angry Journalist.

Very interesting.

Although most flowers make me sneeze, I have to tell you, sometimes they are very sexy.

Health insurance is the bane of my existence. If I didn’t need health insurance, I sometimes wonder how my life would be different because I think I would have probably gone down a different path in the last five years.

The Chrone breaks down the numbers in an extensive piece at her house on the innertubes.

The cost is even more when one is self-employed or when an employer doesn’t offer health insurance and one must pay for it out of pocket. Imagine, the same $4,ooo+ as the families yearly deductible on top of $1000+ per month premiums (that’s a yearly expenditure of $16,000, which is taxable but you never see). You better have a damn good job if you have to buy your own health insurance.

I realize when I read posts like this that I’m not the only one who is a slave to my health insurance. I wish it were different but it’s not.

Would I be self-employed if it weren’t for this issue?

The answer is yes.

So, let me get this straight.

We want to make strip clubs illegal, but we’re ok with strip mines?

From Rich at Shots Across the Bow