Saw a note about this on CAJ-L. A Washington Post town hall meeting in which management planned to inform staff about the state of the paper turned into a discussion of diversity:

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It's the stuff of rock-and-roll mythology: Four misfits from the neighborhood get together and form a band, create a new look and sound, become rich and famous, and live happily ever after!

As we find out in the excellent End of the Century, the Ramones' story is somewhat more hard-scrabble than that.

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A buddy of mine forwarded me quite a head-shaker: Apparently a hunt farm in Texas has set up a computer-controlled station that will allow people to fire a gun at animals over the Internet!

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Yes, those with a digital cable box will be able to enjoy the nuanced sophistication of Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity -- and without the restrictions placed on al-Jazeera, the Arab Fox News!

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My, my. I guess there are limits to free speech in the Liberal caucus after all -- even in a minority government situation. Carolyn Parrish has been banished by Prime Minister Paul Martin.

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This was posted on CAJ-L, an e-mail discussion group for journalists. It's a protection-of-a-source's-confidentiality case:

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If you want to see some despicable human behaviour, watch the video attched to this CTV.ca story.

Here's an excerpt of the story:

A pair of Calgary 20-year-olds have been sentenced to each serve six months in jail for beating a drunken, homeless man as he lay passed out in an alley.

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Jon Stewart on the Daily Show was being his usefully mischevious self Wednesday evening when he showed Sept. 14, 2004 footage of Porter Goss swearing up and down at his Senate confirmation hearing that he would be non-partisan:

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According to this NYT article, you could say the Nov. 2 election put the fear of God into the Democrats. But gaining the support of the religious left might mean being a little less supportive ...   more »

An interesting perspective on the U.S. assault on Fallujah and its impact on the wider Iraq conflict. The authors, Daryl G. Press and Benjamin Valentino, are professors of government at Dartmouth. They recommend the U.S. focus on the achievable in Iraq, but none of those options look appetizing in their own right.

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NYT columnist Nicholas Kristoff tries to make sense of the comings and goings in the Bush administration and among top civil servants. His opinion is disquieting.

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