Category Archives: Nightly News

Snack attack

by the Night Writer
Dang, I loves me some hydrolyzed vegetable protein! (My emphasis in bold, below.)
Ingredient Used in Many Processed Foods Recalled
Associated Press
March 05, 2010

A wide range of processed foods – including soups, snack foods, dips and dressings – are being recalled after salmonella was discovered in a flavor-enhancing ingredient.

Food and Drug Administration officials [...]

They’re not astroturf

by the Night Writer
More protestors against increased government spending were left out in the cold on the Michigan state Capital lawn this week…but that’s probably how they liked it.
A group called Common Sense in Government organized the “rally”, building some three dozen snowman protestors and equipping them with signs to protest the governor’s proposal [...]

You moose-st remember this

by the Night Writer
In case Tiger Lilly’s previous post wasn’t enough to lighten up your Thursday, you might want to consider the Strib’s laughable expose from earlier this week, What’s Killing Minnesota’s Moose? Then go over to Powerline’s devastating rebuttal, which perhaps ought to have been entitled “What’s Killing the Star Tribune’s Credibility?”
Personally, I give [...]

They’ll get around to the IPCC report eventually

by the Night Writer
According to Gregg Easterbrook in his Tuesday Morning Quarterback column at ESPN, the New York Times has had its hands full just in fact-checking itself.
In the past six months, the Times has, according to its own corrections page, said Arizona borders Wisconsin; confused 12.7-millimeter rifle ammunition with 12.7 caliber (the latter would [...]

No need to spin this

by the Night Writer
It’s not a big deal in the grand scheme of things, but there is considerable brouhaha in the PGA where one pro, Scott McCarron, has essentially accused other pros, most prominently Phil Mickelson, of cheating by using illegal clubs.
The issue stems from the PGA’s new rule this year outlawing clubs (especially [...]

Women’s Media Center unclear on the concept of free speech

by the Night Writer
While you might argue how “free” the speech is if it costs $2.5 million, we have another example today of the so-called progressive left’s unique views on the freedom of expression: if they hate what you have to say then it must be “hate” speech and banned. The latest case in point [...]

Lady on the MTA (did she ever return?)

by Night Writer
There was a remarkable incident in the Boston subway Friday night when two alert MBTA (formerly the MTA) employees — one on the platform and the other driving — brought a subway car to a screeching halt inches from a woman who had fallen onto the tracks.
Boston Subway Train Stops Short of Woman [...]

I STILL don’t want to go on the cart

by the Night Writer
Okay, I’ve done this I Don’t Want to Go On The Cart post before and received some pretty interesting responses (and about 90% of the spam captured by my Akismet plug-in is aimed at that post). Now, via James Taranto and the Lumberjack, more tales of the “undead” just in time for [...]

Tiger Jack shack attack

by the Night Writer
Having lived in St. Paul for a number of years, including a stretch in the Selby-Dale neighborhood, I am very familiar with Tiger Jack’s Store on Dale St. next to the northern entrance to Highway 94. Tiger Jack Rosenbloom was a black entreprenuer who, along with his wife Nurceal,  sold a little [...]

Why did George Bush hate old, immobile people?

 by the Night Writer
I came across this story from the New Orleans Times-Picayune as part of my day job. It cites a study in the May issue of Risk Assessment by two Dutch researchers from Delft Univesity and two researchers from LSU (emphasis mine):
Four years later, researchers still count New Orleans’ Katrina dead, parsing them into [...]

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