Category Archives: good news

someone FINALLY fired Dr. Laura

August 19, 2010 – 9:40 pm

Dr. Laura accidentally used the “N” word. … 11 times. Oops. Sarah Palin defended her. … There’s the next moron celebrity I’d like sent to the camp for reprogramming. Dr. Laura fired herself … After the N-word broadcast aired, Schlessinger apologized for using the racial epithet. “I articulated the N-word all the way out — [...]

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Viacom Loses $1 Billion Lawsuit Against YouTube

June 23, 2010 – 5:43 pm

Great news. Viacom’s bogus lawsuit, filed 2007, has been dismissed . If you like YouTube, you should be celebrating. The billion-dollar YouTube-Viacom case has finally been resolved, and the winner is … YouTube. In a statement published to its company blog this afternoon, YouTube writes, “The court granted our motion for summary judgment in Viacom’s [...]

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can fish be saved?

March 18, 2010 – 5:14 am

My Dad and I watched an entertaining and informative 18min talk from the TED conference. The decline of many fish species may be irreversible. This is one bit of good news. … Dan Barber squares off with a dilemma facing many chefs today: how to keep fish on the menu. With impeccable research and deadpan [...]

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Craig Ferguson on Rush Limbaugh

January 16, 2010 – 9:42 pm

This late night talk show host resolves the Limbaugh controversy PERFECTLY. Watch a clip from his show on YouTube. Limbaugh makes about $33 million / year. Perhaps we need to get rid of Leno and Conan. And put Craig Ferguson in that spot. Keith Olbermann damns both Limbaugh and Pat Robertson to Hell. That was [...]

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Good Riddance – Sarah Palin goes to FOX TV

January 11, 2010 – 2:59 pm

On Sunday, January 10th, 60 Minutes did an interview with John McCain’s campaign strategist Steve Schmidt: Revelations from the Campaign Sarah Palin comes off very, very badly. Schmidt says it would be a disaster to elect her President in 2012. Click PLAY or watch her Greatest Hits on YouTube. Happily, Dana just let me know [...]

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Google disrupts mobile phone tyranny

January 6, 2010 – 12:00 am

And I LOVE it. Did you see the announcement of the new Google phone? …” the Nexus One: huge AMOLED touchscreen, thin-and-light form factor, available unlocked or on T-Mobile, pervasive voice input, etc. And many have already reached for the easiest narrative in which to fit Google’s announcement: the Nexus One is Google’s attempt at [...]

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what happened last decade?

January 5, 2010 – 3:42 am
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Canada does something RIGHT

December 24, 2009 – 12:01 am

The Supreme Court of Canada transformed the country’s libel laws Tuesday with a pair of decisions that proponents say will expand the boundaries of free speech. The court ruled that libel lawsuits will rarely succeed against journalists who act responsibly in reporting their stories when those stories are in the public interest. It also updated [...]

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global warming to end by Christmas 2009

October 13, 2009 – 12:03 am

So says Brian. He’s a Global Warming skeptic. Like these guys: … Some global warming skeptics in the science or political community dispute all or some of the global warming scientific consensus objecting to whether global warming is actually occurring, if human activity is truly to blame, and if the threat is as great a [...]

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$50-billion lawsuit against Big Tobacco

October 11, 2009 – 12:03 am

Love it. In launching a $50-billion lawsuit against tobacco companies, Ontario is joining what many expect will eventually become a national battle to recover health costs linked to smoking. The governments of British Columbia and New Brunswick have already filed claims against cigarette manufacturers and most of the other provinces have passed legislation enabling them [...]

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