Category: General

“Smoking Gun” on Fox News

It’s been known for a while that Fox News “reporters” are told by memos from the top what the news should be.  Never made news before.  But recently a memo emerged from the day after the Democrat’s re-taking of Congress, instructing reporters to find opportunities to claim that terrorist “bad guys” were thrilled with a Democratic Congress and a resigning Rumsfeld, and other details, such as that Fox, which had never questioned the President on what his “plan for Iraq” should be, should now press the Democrats on their “plan for Iraq.”  It was leaked to the Huffington Post.  Keith Olbermann did a segment on it, calling it a “smoking gun.” He showed an example from later that day of a Fox News reporter making the claims she’d been instructed to make in the memo.

No special comment, just haven’t linked to the worthy Olbermann in a while.

My Name, It Is Sam Hall

Ed very sad.

I just wrote several thoughtful paragraphs about my experience with something of a creative drought through most of 2006, then lost it with an accidental page-back or page-forward thingy I couldn’t recover from in OmniWeb.

OK. Here’s the file I was going to post: Sam Hall. The first ukulele song I’ve recorded, and very nearly the first I’ve played, in many many months. From the chords on Alligator Boogaloo’s uke songbook.

Gotta get to bed. Maybe I’ll write up what I can remember tomorrow.

If you’re not familiar with my glorious one-take-wonder uke songs from back when I used to post them here, they’re not being posted because they’re “good” but because I enjoy making them and like to share. Download if you want the experience of sitting in the living room with a not particularly skilled ukulele player playing while he reads chords and lyrics off a web site. Don’t download if you don’t.

Nighty night!

AFTERTHOUGHT: I have had the song “Harris and the Mare” by Stan Rogers in my head tonight. I’d love to play that. Anyone know where I can find chords for it?