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[Updated 5:08pm] A few thoughts on the continuing bruhaha over Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama's former pastor and ever-popular subject of the mainstream news media echo chamber:

The insensitive question of the day:

[Updated February 21, 9:55am] So the latest Circle Of Outrage™ today apparently started on Monday, when Michelle Obama -- wife of presidential hopeful Barack Obama -- addressed a rally in Milwaukee and said:

If you're anything like me, you've probably given up on the mainstream news nowadays. And who can blame you? Between the demands of a 24-hour news cycle, the blatant bias, the time-wasting celebutard updates, and the death of fact-checking, the only way to stay informed nowadays is to follow the blogs and the comedians for news, and relegate the mainstream media for sports scores and weather reports.

Short and sweet: Dan Bartlett, former advisor to George W. Bush, describes conservative bloggers in the January 2008 edition of Texas Monthly:

While driving in to work today, I happened to catch a bit of Thom Hartmann's radio program. My ears perked up a bit when he started talking about TPM's coverage of the little-noted political scandal around former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman.

I normally don't recommend things that I haven't seen, read, attended, or perused myself, but I'll be making an exception today. Trust me, I know what I'm doing.

See? The reason why this blog is a third-rate lost-in-the-crowd rambling discourse by one schmuck and not an internet-reknown seven-thousand-hits-per-hour high-profile site is because I'm too slow to jump on the blatantly obvious.

For those of you long-time visitors who remember our first (and only) encounter with Captain Copyright, it's time to break out your polybags -- Captain Copyright has fallen, never to return!

So now that Time magazine has named "You" (or, more accurately, every blogger, podcaster, YouTube-er, and web-content-creator on the internet) as their Man Of The Year, can I go ahead and add that to my list of notable achievements?

So, now that Rupert Murdoch, News Corp and Fox News got sufficiently hammered to cancel O.J. Simpson's "hypothetical" "confession" to the Nicole Brown Simpson murders -- and yank the accompanying book -- how long will it be before pilfered copies of If I Did It become instant moneymaking jackpots on eBay?

Over at the Firedoglake (Fire Dog Lake? Fired Ogla Ke? Whatever...) blog, they had a Q&A session between the regulars there and MSNBC "Countdown" host (and perrenial favorite firebrand) Keith Olbermann.

Saw this video clip today from GoNintendo and thought it was worth sharing. It's a promotional newsreel for the Nintendo Wii, featuring PR sound bites from Nintendo of America VP Perrin Kaplan and stock footage of Wii units and games being assembled.

I thought this was worth sharing for two reasons:

Over at The American Prospect, Ezra Klein notes Time's addition of blogger Real Clear Politics to their roster of conservative bloggers:

Just a quick shout-out for y'all to bop over to Salon, where they have a nice three-page interview with MSNBC's Keith Olbermann (you need to watch an ad to get the full article).

As the pressure -- and anger -- mounts ever higher against ABC for their plans to push the one-sided "Path to 9/11" docudrama propaganda, I can't help but feel some sympathy for the big brains at the network.

[Updated 2:36pm] For the non-political wonks out there, some more tidbits on the tsunami of indignation that's starting to rise over ABC's ham-fisted partisan hatchet job "Path to 9/11":

[Updated 3:04pm] Okay, I'm back, if slightly under the weather, and it doesn't take long for me to find another example of something stupid that cheeses me off.

If you feel that your summer 2006 entertainment calendar isn't chock-a-bloc with super-heroes already (as if the X-Men, Superman, and even My Super Ex-Girlfriend aren't enough), Canada has the answer for you!

Just in time for your weekend reading on the third-year anniversary of Bush's Damn Fool War™, FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting) has compiled a list of premature gloating by pro-Iraq war morons.

Even now, the smug contempt and unrestrained cockiness of these self-proclaimed experts practically oozes off the page (or the screen, as it were), which makes the whole kit 'n kaboodle look even dumber as the morass in Iraq gets worse and worse.