Category Archives: Rants

Just what the U-T needed

My local paper’s website has started allowing users to comment anonymously on stories.  Yeah, that’s just the clever, edgy thing to improve their flagging circulation.  As evidence I give you today’s story on the grocery workers’ contract talks.  The story … Continue reading

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I remember…

… when CNN used to actually investigate and report real news. Nowadays they just seem to parrot whatever the Republicans say is this weeks talking point. Case in point: the CNN.com headline right at the moment is Iran role suspected … Continue reading

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New CDs

I got a couple of new CDs this week. Dixie Chicks – Taking the Long Way I’m a Dixie Chicks fan from way back. I mean WAY back; back to their first incarnation as a festival band in Dallas, circa … Continue reading

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HGTV

You know what annoys me? HGTV — that’s Home and Garden TV– seems to have given up the “G” part of their name. They’ve cut back drastically on the gardening shows. Even the idiot savant, that geek of gardening, Paul … Continue reading

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