In today's Washington Post, Howard Kurtz writes about how wonderful and exemplary Mary Mapes thinks she is: (the link is to a subscribed site, so I will type it out from my copy of today's paper) Investigative reporters are, by their nature, dogged, tenacious, and deeply suspicious, crashing through official roadblocks as they chase the most elusive stories. Some of them continue that quest long after their support evaporates, their evidence crumbles and even their employers abandon...

Well, it has truly hit the fan in France. And, allegedly, Australia has nabbed seventeen alleged terrorists allegedly working to allegedly blow up some alleged place; probably the Sydney Opera House or Harbor Bridge, according to The Scotsman . But l put it to you, good JU reader, that this current violence has its roots in the happenings of 9/11. But what is happening now is not the work of al-Qaeda. Let me make this perfectly clear once again: this violence is not from al-Qaeda. N...

Here is a headline from Yahoo! News: Bomb kills 20 in Iraq after bloodiest month for US What does that tell you? Does that tell you that this is the bloodiest month yet for US troops, even through the whole of the insurgency? That more soldiers died in October 2005 than at any time since the beginning of the occupation of Iraq, back in mid-2003? 'Cause that's what it says to me. So I clicked through to read the whole article. Here is the revelatory segment from that Yahoo! Ne...

Who watched with gleeful awe as Steve Harrigan of FOX News almost got sawn in half by a flying road sign in Everglades City this morning? Who saw poor Trace Gallagher get blown about by 120 mile-an-hour winds in the streets of West Palm Beach? It's like an accident waiting to happen. Okay, hurricane reporter should be up there with the most dangerous jobs in America. Those poor suckers, why can't they get some nice cushy desk job, or at least report live from the National Hurricane Ce...

Well, it's time for Louis Farrakhan and his crazy people are massing on the Mall tomorrow. It's to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the "Million Man March" . Hmmm... it gives one pause. Did it really do any good? Did it make the world better for single-parent black families ? And what about the GLAAD response? Who knew there WAS a GLAAD response ? And here's the reaction from an unapologetically white man who was there : My question is, what has gotten better becaus...