I am not anxious to tar any liberal PACs, but (via OW)…. Accountability Now collected $113,695 in donations during 2009, as it reported to the FEC, and spent $169,992 that year on nine consultants. Six of those people managed the committee: The PAC paid Hamsher $24,000, another $24,000 to PAC cofounder Glenn Greenwald of Salon.Com, …
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A flawed analysis but interesting
Various things about this post make no sense (why compare a one-time-endowment to annual giving and why assume that news will generate no money, for example), but these figures are worth looking at: Rick Edmonds, the estimable media economics expert at the Poynter Institute, calculated that American newspapers are spending $4.4 billion today on news-gathering… …
Charlie Vergos RIP
We’ve had a lot of discussions of barbecue here, but I didn’t know this about the origins of Memphis dry rub: Mr. Vergos, whose parents immigrated to the United States from Greece, opened the Rendezvous in 1948, selling ham and cheese sandwiches and beer. His signature pork ribs, charcoal-grilled, basted with vinegar and sprinkled with …
Free Speech Is Hard
But it is worth it: Lawyers for the father of a Marine who died in Iraq and whose funeral was picketed by anti-gay protesters say a court has ordered him to pay the protesters’ appeal costs. On Friday, the Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ordered that Albert Snyder of York, Pa., pay costs …
Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition
Because there is a war on Easter brewing, and you don’t want to be left out of the fun: One week before the most solemn day in the Christian year, the city of Davenport, Iowa removed Good Friday from its municipal calendar, setting off a storm of complaints from Christians and union members whose contracts …
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Wingnut Science
It looks like the wingnut scientific method looks a lot like the underpants gnomes helped them out: The paper begins by talking about the ENSO, better known as El Niño. It’s a periodic shift in ocean currents and surface winds associated with wide reaching changes that no climate scientist doubts. But the authors then pivot …
Not About Jesus
Some were complaining that there’s too much Jesus in this blog, so I’ll turn to the other component of American politics: guns. It’s just a coincidence that the Second Amendment March on DC happens on April 19, the 15th anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombings. Which, coincidentally, commemorated the end of the Branch Davidian siege. …