By Walter Brasch (Spectrum) We know the names of every one of the 4,479 Americans who were killed and the 32,200 who were wounded, both civilian and military, between March 20, 2003 and Oct. 21, 2011, the day President Barack Obama, fulfilling a campaign promise, declared the last American soldier would leave Iraq before the end [...]
Corpprate America Sends a Labor Day Message
By Walter Brasch(Spectrum) For most Americans, the only significance of Labor Day is that it concludes a three day weekend. For Kirk Artley, it means he has about six weeks left of employment. On Aug. 24, RR Donnelley, a Chicago-based megacorporation that claims to be “the world’s premier full-service provider of print and related services,” [...]
New Hampshire or bus: Sarah's no-campaign campaign tour
By Walter Brasch (Spectrum) Speeding along city streets, going from somewhere to somewhere else, was the Sarah Palin “One Nation I’m Not Running for Anything But Follow Me Anyhow” bus chase. Following her were about two dozen reporters and photographers from the national news media, and now and then some local news teams, many of whom [...]
The news, it is a-changin': bin Laden and the mass media
By Walter Brasch (Spectrum) It was a little before 9 a.m. I was chatting with two students. Another student came in, and asked if we had heard a plane had hit a building in New York City. We hadn’t, but I assumed it was a light private plane, and the pilot had mechanical difficulty or [...]
Down for the count: America's fascination with royalty
By Walter Brasch (Spectrum) In case you’re in a funk because you think the reason you didn’t receive an invitation to the royal wedding is because the Brits are still ticked off about that silly little skirmish back in 1776, the American media have a solution for you. The media had been pumping out news, [...]
Afghanistan president fires graft-fighting prosecutor
By Dexter Filkins and Alissa J. Rubin (New York Times) One of the country’s most senior prosecutors said Saturday that President Hamid Karzai fired him last week after he repeatedly refused to block corruption investigations at the highest levels of Mr. Karzai’s government. Western officials confirm reports that President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan and others [...]
Men and women agree that men are the best bosses
By Geoff Maynard (Express UK) A massive 63 per cent of women and 75 per cent of men said they would rather have a man in charge at work. Both male and female workers believe male bosses were less likely to get involved in office politics, easier to reason with and rarely had mood swings. [...]
California Sen. Diane Feinstein sponsors bill to double penalties for weed brownies
The Senate is awaiting a vote on a bill that would double penalties for any edible products combined with medical marijuana in California and other states that provide relief for patients. S. 258, the Saving Kids from Dangerous Drugs Act, was introduced by Sen. Diane Feinstein and is using a media scare about “candy flavored [...]
The vendor client relationship in the real world
YouTube – The Vendor Client relationship – in real world situations.
Inquest finds that hot nanny, 30, died of porn overdose
(Daily Mail UK) A 30-year-old woman’s death as she used a sex toy while watching pornography was probably due to her state of sexual excitement, an inquest heard today. Children’s nanny Nichola Paginton was found dead in bed naked from the waist down last October with pornographic material running on her laptop. A sex toy [...]
