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I was sitting at home the other morning listening to Bush in a press conference...It really ruined my day listening to his drivel. I coundn't understand how we came to this place -- the world being lead by a fucking moron. But Jon Stewart helps the pain go away.

Video in the extended from the Daily Show --

I know you all love pop-up ads on your computer, well now you can have them while you're watching your favorite shows!

>Cable and satellite TV companies serving the Tampa Bay area have begun experimenting with onscreen features and advertising that are more interactive and, they argue, helpful for TV viewers and clients.

>The first interactive pop-up TV features range from a caller ID screen that shows who is calling - in a window that appears on the TV screen - to interactive car ads that ask viewers to click their remotes if they would like to find a local dealer. [full story](http://www.tbo.com/news/metro/MGBST3SOQOE.html?imw=Y)

[Indie rockers reject big money from the king of gas guzzlers](http://www.austin360.com/music/content/music/stories/2006/02/22hummer.ht...)

>GM's brand of luxury SUVs may be one of the most fashionable modes of transportation in the world, but Hummer ad money is turned down like ... well ... like nothing else. That's even more shocking when you consider many of the artists in line to benefit could double their yearly income by saying yes. The offers generally begin at $50 grand — a ton of money for relative unknowns.

It is fun to see that small bands can still stick it to the man. Would you agree to play at [Mary Cheney's](http://www.gaylesbiantimes.com/?id=2431&issue=851) illegal gay wedding? 'cause selling out to Hummer is like that on the evil scale.

Check out Wired's interview on blogging for dollars.  Plus, the New York magazine has an article on Blogrolling. 

Last night CNN's new superstar Andersen Cooper had this to say this about his reporting on the Mine accident in West Virginia:

Our pledge over the next two hours is not to be traffic and rumor. We're not going down the road of speculation. We're only looking for facts. Because God knows, there are a lot of people who have a personal involvement watching right now. We don't want to give them any misleading information.

Within just a few hours later, it would become tragically appeared that Mr. Cooper and our 'news as entertainment' media industry have no idea what accuracy in news means.

In an Op-Ed in today's USA Today former journalist and administrative assistant to Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy in the early 1960s John Seigenthaler Sr., takes on Wikipedia over false information contained in his biography implicating him in the assasinations for JFK and RFK:

>"JFor a brief time, he was thought to have been directly involved in the Kennedy assassinations of both John, and his brother, Bobby. Nothing was ever proven."

Is it just me or does anyone else smell mayoral politics that resulted in the HIGH ALERT of recent days.  The  "we can't trust the federal government(true) so we will do it oursevles," concept that is in play.  Maybe I am way off.  Is it because our mayor is too liberal?  How come we were even allowed to use the subways today?  I guess I'll just go see if Macy"s has a sale.....

A astute person over at [Metafilter](http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/44689) points out our bias and racism at work:

Black people loot, white people borrow. Racist photo captions by Yahoo News/AP illuminate more than Katrina's aftermath. If these pictures are taken down, there are mirrors right here.

I seem to have the taste of bad Journalism in my mouth this week...Where the hell is a Spider Jerusalem when you need him?

Christopher Hitchens has a very different point of view on the Rove-thing, claiming the whole thing is a non-issue. A big fat Non-story. First he attacks the Wilsons claiming their involvement was purely poltical and biased against the president's agenda for war in Iraq. Next he rips apart  the Intellegence Identities Protection Act, the law which democrats claim Rove broke:

The Intelligence Identities Protection Act, notionally violated by this disclosure (Rove's), is a ridiculous piece of legislation to begin with. It relies in practice on a high standard of proof, effectively requiring that the government demonstrate that someone knowingly intended to divulge the identity of an American secret agent operating under cover, with the intention of harming that agent. The United States managed to get through World War II and most of the Cold War without such an act on its books. The obvious disadvantage of the law, apart from its opacity, is that it could be used to stifle legitimate inquiry about what the CIA was up to. Indeed, that was its original intent. It was put forward by right-wingers who wanted to stifle and if possible arrest Philip Agee, a defector from the 1970s whose whistle-blowing book Inside The Company had exposed much CIA wrongdoing. The act is now being piously cited by liberals to criminalize the disclosure that someone who shuttles dangerously "under cover" between Georgetown and Virginia and takes a surreptitious part in an open public debate, works for the agency and has a track record on a major issue.