DOES SPELLING STILL MATTER?
The Wrong Man
In the fall of 2001, a nation reeling from the horror of 9/11 was rocked by a series of deadly anthrax attacks. As the pressure to find a culprit mounted, the FBI, abetted by the media, found one. The wrong one. This is the story of how federal authorities blew the biggest anti-terror investigation of the past decade—and nearly destroyed an innocent man. Here, for the first time, the falsely accused, Dr. Steven J. Hatfill, speaks out about his ordeal.
Just the Bullet Points: How a Former Assistant Ratted Out Balloon Boy's Dad
Wow. Ready to have your mind blown? A former research assistant who slaved for Richard Heene is revealing the deceptive, tragic master plan that Heene concocted to manufacture a media…
The Health Services Commissioner detailed the case of a man who had the wrong finger operated on after he had told a nurse the wrong one was mentioned in paperwork. The nurse corrected the paperwork, but the surgeon still picked the wrong finger.
Paul Austin on the Good, Bad, and Ugly of Victoria.
You got together, did some research, and put together a report on an SNL sketch. While you were doing your research did you also find that sharks live in water and don’t deliver candy-grams, that there’s no African American equivalent of Mr. Rodgers, and that the majority of boxes don’t have dicks in them, were you able to find that out?
Jon Stewart on CNN’s story that fact-checked a Saturday Night Live sketch.
NYT Motherlode blogger Anita Tedaldi returns adopted son, sparks controversy
A post on New York Times blog Motherlode has divided readers with a controversial post about a failed adoption.
AU Government To Build "Unhackable" Netbooks
bennyboy64 writes “In what may be one of the largest roll-outs yet of Microsoft’s new Windows 7 Operating System, Australia’s Federal Government decided to give 240,000 Lenovo IdeaPad S10e netbooks…
CNN Reporter Hit By Tear Gas in Pittsburgh Protests
The protests in Pittsburgh by self-described anarchists, coinciding with the G-20 Summit, have led to arrests, violence and this unbelievable but true video.
Today things are calmer,…
“To sit here thinking that I could have (an estimated) $15,000 in my bank account at the end of the year, for what I’ve done, is a dream. I don’t think it should be a dream, I think it should be a reality…”
And there it is. That quote, by itself, demonstrates exactly what was wrong with Compulsory Student Unionism and why the vast (but silent) majority of students never supported it. Why should dirt poor undergraduates have to dig deep into their pockets to subsidise the lifestyle and politically partisan ramblings of some second year Arts students so they can stroke each others egos over a bong in some hovel in Newtown for being published in a student rag that no one else ever reads? I know most students would prefer to use that money on items that may actually benefit their own academic progress - textbooks, journal subscriptions, rent, food….
A comment regarding compulsory student unionism from article The death throes of student newspapers.
