AS I SEE IT 12/13: Yet another tragedy
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Another senseless tragedy occurred in the world of entertainment this week as &quot;Dimebag&quot; Darrel Abbott and three others were killed as the results of a shooting by an obsessed fan 25-year-old Nathan Gale at a Columbus, OH nightclub on December 10.
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Comment is free: Mark Lawson: Forays into the media spotlight in the wake of family tragedies can be psychologically harmful and counterproductive.
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This is a sad day for the NASA Family. Yesterday&#39;s vanpool accident involving employees of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has taken the lives of three of our own: Dorothy M. Forks, an employee records
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A disturbed 14-year-old wounds four before killing himself in Clevelandâjust another spasm of violence in another bloody year for Americaâs schools. How to spot trouble before it opens fireâand the ongoing debate over blame for a cycle that just wonât stop.
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PHILADELPHIA _ There's no way to tiptoe around the subject of this story. It is gross.  And if you think it's hard to read about, imagine what it's like to live with the problem facing hundreds _ and possibly thousands _ of Philadelphia homeowners such as David Rizzio.
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I am reminded of an event 93 years ago, in which Franz Ferdinand was shot, plummetting Europe into war. World War III is coming, and the flashpoint is the Islamic world. Much like Serbia in 1913, it is fragile and fragmented and there is a determination by a large focused interest group to see violence done in the name of their agenda. And, in the use of violence, they have successfully advanced their agenda.
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Call it what you want, but publishing the picture of the downed victim is nothing but sensationalism. It is only exceeded by your arrogance in your weak explanation to your readers.  Richard Bateman  Magna  (c) 2007 Deseret News (Salt Lake City).
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Tycho:  With PAX coming up this weekend (!!!), we didn't really have time on Friday to invest in Virgil's Wikiscanner - that mystical oracle that takes a raw IP range and then excretes a list of that organization's Wikipedia edits.  This is the pulsing, possibly Martian device that dished up last week's awesome Electronic Arts edits.    I wasn't sure if we should feel sorry for them or not - now that EA is situated in the number two slot, does that make them the scrappy underdog? - but I quickly realized it probably doesn't matter.  They can come right out and say "Yes, we edit it all the time," mischaracterize the nature of the edits, and by the time it's on the second page the events in question never happened.  People don't remember anything these days that isn't on the first page of their feed aggregators. In any case, the entire affair is talking place  on Wikipedia.  Kudzu will grow over the propaganda soon enough.    Though time was indeed in short supply, we did fritter some portion of it pawing through ancient email headers, scraping for filth on old enemies.  Or enemies with whom we have resumed talks.  Or enemies who are now friends!  Even people I hope to make enemies in the future by my careless commentary must fall beneath the scanner's baleful eye.    Like a chugging trawler, we hauled up net after net of treasure onto the deck, sifting it on hands and knees.  I'd never expose it, of course - sparking a desperate arms race to find self-serving commentary is a conflict I'm likely to lose.  And with the deep catalogue of nemeses we've inspired worldwide (and even below the world, in the warrens of the pale Gambrya, where hate is eternal) it's not what I'd call a fabulous scenario.  For us, at least; no doubt, our foes have already begun their malevolent harvest.
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Margaret Hassan has been murdered. That is the most probable conclusion from a video given to Al Jazeera yesterday. For one who met her and got to know her, even if just
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What happened in Asia last week is a pure tragedy there is no doubt about that, and like every other human being I feel with the people who live there.
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The Obama Express. My latest piece on Huffington.  If you like it, please feel free to pass it on.  "cheesecake"
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And recent history repeats itself.
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It seems even a crusty old newshound like me can get burned. My item last week about a couple naming their baby âYahooâ turns out to be a hoax cooked up by a (now-unemployed) Romanian tabloid reporter. Reporters making things up just for a laugh? I am shocked, simply shocked.Â
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Editorâs note. This story was first reported on www.postindependent.com. For more coverage, please read Sundayâs Post Indpendent.
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This wasn't a football game. It was a series of unfortunate events.
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Tycho: Sorry about that. Kiko digests the audio files for that, and I forgot that there President's Day was a holiday that people took seriously. Before today, I was not aware just how seriously Kiko took the concept of presidency. Also, I fixed an offensive and aggressively stupid typographical error in the post above. Now, it's only aggressively stupid in the ways I originally intended.(CW)TB
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The continuing saga of the Richter Scales 'Here Comes Another Bubble' video: another unhappy photographer cries copyright foul and will take action.