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Leta-Momma & Blurbodoocery : Profilin' in Utah

Heather B. Armstrong, author of one of the better blogs around just got profiled by the Salt Lake Tribune. Evidently, dooce.com is

"...quite possibly the most well read parenting blog on the planet."

Oh fuckness. Busted. Ok so, I technically read 'Alpha Mom' as well - but only because dooce dooces at that internets.

Via his presentation of this damnning evidence that I secretly desire to be a thirtysomething Mom [who knew? Lois did.], Matt Canham just made my short list. Just because Heather has the chutzpah and disorder that makes her blog about her real life, and those moments sometimes involve the guy she's married to and their insanely adorable daughter Leta - and Leta grows and poops - doesn't make it a parenting blog.

Canham, you bastard.

Heather had this to say [note I take her out of context please]:

My complaint is that when you take some of the things I write out of context they make me sound as if I am perpetually running up and down the street in the nude waving my tattooed middle finger at innocent old ladies who are cross-stitching passages of scripture as they sit in their wheelchairs on the porch. And that is so not true. I only do that on the weekends.

 

StarTribune.com Reaches New Advertising Low

HEY STARTRIBUNE.COM - UP YOUR ASS WITH MOBIL GAS!

Are you kidding me? I was checking StarTribune at work, just to give my brain a rest by focusing on something else for a minute, and I saw this monstrosity of a background, stinging my eyes and driving me away from the site as fast as possible.

Screw 'em, I'll live on CNN and the BBC - at least then I don't have to suffer through Katherine Kersten's latest column of intolerant, hate-filled, racist MegAmerican Christ-Nazi condescending bullshit AND tolerate soul-stinging, retina-scorching...

Does AP or the Star Tribune know Karl Rove's title??

Looks like the Associated Press can't quite keep Rove's title straight - silly folks - Andy Card is White House Chief Of Staff, Karl Rove is Deputy Chief of Staff and Special Aide to the President.

Photo Caption::

White House Chief of Staff Karl Rove addresses employees Friday, July 8, 2005, at Ameritrade's Bellevue, Neb, office. Rove was in Nebraska for a fundraiser in Omaha.
-AP Photo/Dave Weaver/File

Link: Republicans anxiously watching Rove saga.

Stratribune.com - Partisan Opinion Columns Presented as News

The StarTribune, eveidently, thinks opinion columns should be presented as news with no indication whatsoever of the nature of the article. What journalistic integrity! What objectivity!

More and more, the Strib is showing its true colors as journalistic lapdogs of Minnesota Neo-Conservatives and a willing participant in the Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld/Wolfowitz MSM propoganda machine - pounding the drums for war and trying desperatly to convince Minnesotans that the Downing Street Memo means nothing...and we should not be concerned that 'the facts were being fixed around the policy.'

Today they are running the following article from the Washington Post - which is NOWHERE to be found in the news->politics section of the Washington Post - not even under 'TOday's Op-Eds' - it's an OPINION COLUMN by Dana WIlbanks. IF you actually look at the WPost online, they have an entire section devoted to the DSM and held a Q/A yesterday with its original reporter, Michael Smith. And, despite WIlbanks' claim that Senate Democrats are not paying any attention, it was mentioned in the Bolton confirmation hearings by Democrats in the Senate. Nice facts Wilbanks, way to reprint lies Star Tribune!

Check the FRONTPAGE of the Pioneer Press.

I wrote an email yesterday to the Strib challenging them to really cover DSM and do some actual journalism instead of printing neo-conservative opinions as news. I have not heard back.