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Bush Overheard Trying to Secretly Justify Wiretaps

AP is reporting that, after reporters were asked to leave, President Bush privately (he thought) told the Republican Caucus his rationale for wiretapping Americans without their knowledge:

How to Fail At Reporting: By Suzanne Collins

I'm sorry that this has nothing to do with video games, but as a member of the press, I have to address stupidity this painful.

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ARTICLE: Sharpton Knocks "Boondocks"

Aaron MacGruder indicated on Nightline last month that as a satirist, there are some things he may say that will rub people the wrong way. I don't know he was expecting this sort of a rub.

What I did not know about Coretta Scott King…

...that I wish I did. I always hate finding out good things about people after they're gone.

"It was as if she was born for the breadth and depth of responsibility that she incurred as the life of Dr. Martin Luther King. Indeed, she was strong, if not stronger than he was," Young said. "And she waged that struggle in a beautiful and graceful manner."That was aptly demonstrated when a few days after Dr. King's assassination on April 4, 1968, and before his funeral, Scott King led garbage workers in a march in Memphis and later assumed her husband's role at the helm of the Poor People's March in Washington, D.C."There were times I thought my decision would be to leave Medgar because I was scared of losing him. Coretta, on the other hand embraced [her husband's] vision and embraced him," Evers-Williams said. "After Martin's assassination she focused in on the thing that was most important to her and that was keeping Martin's life and work in front of the public and never letting it die. That was her life."For the next four decades, Scott King continued that work. For 27 years (1968-1995) she devoted her life to building and developing the Martin Luther King Center for Nonviolent Social Change, a monument to her husband's life and philosophy. She also lobbied to make Dr. King's birthday, Jan. 15, a national holiday, a fight she won when President Ronald Reagan signed the Act of Congress in 1983. It was first celebrated in 1986.And she fought other battles, traveling throughout the nation and the world in pursuit and in support of racial and economic justice, employment opportunities, gay and lesbian rights, the needs of the poor and homeless, parity in health care, AIDS awareness and the reduction of gun violence among other concerns.Sarah Brady, who started the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence after her husband Jim, then-press secretary to President Reagan was shot and seriously wounded in an assassination attempt on the president, said Scott King was a mentor, a hero, a friend and a partner in the fight against gun violence."[She] had strength and grace in equal parts," Brady said. "She worked hard to raise her family under an immense burden [yet] she gave of her time and labor to a great many important causes."Scott King led goodwill missions to countries in Asia, Africa, Latin America and Europe and lent her wisdom and support to world leaders like Corazon Aquino, Kenneth Kaunda and Nelson Mandela, who she supported in the fight to end apartheid in South Africa. She also met with religious leaders like Pope John Paul II, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and the Dalai Lama.

All In Moderation

The WP has suspended comments on its web blogs due to excessive hate speech and fighting among posters.

What exactly makes a chicken exotic?

This is the best article I've seen in a long, long time.

Breaking News: Nothing is Happening, Dammit.

There. I said it.

Seriously. I've had about enough of this. Jack Thompson isn't making an ass of himself, Uwe Boll is hiding somewhere, no good games are coming out... Not a single Chinese gold farmer has starved to death playing Everquest II in the past month! You want to hear the story of the day in the gaming world? Alliance owns Horde in World of Warcraft.

Oh, No: Not An ANGRY Woman!

This is pathetic; the GOP is going to have to do better than playing the angry-woman card. If not, they're going to p!ss off a lot of already-perturbed female voters, and they really ought not do that. The Associated Press today:

Hideo Kojima Lays Down the Law

When people say the name Uwe Boll, some might think of a disgusting, slimy bug that eats crap for a living. Members of the gaming community, on the other hand, envision a disgusting, slimy human that makes crap for a living. Uwe Boll has been the producer/director of several massive box-office failures based on videogames.

Nick Judin's JFP Blog Launches

Open for Business

Hello, and welcome. This, as you've probably guessed, is my blog. In order to provide the great city of Jackson with up-to-the-minute coverage on the political front, I've taken it upon myself to...

Still Divided Over Race?

See what you think.

The Creative Loafing's John Sugg (from Atlanta) is back with a rather sweeping package of stories on race relations in South, with much focus on Mississippi. (Sidebar on continued efforts for justice here, but curiously doesn't mention the Dee-Moore case.)

Donna Ladd on WLEZ, 5 p.m, to Talk About Arts

Bush Stretches to Defend Surveillance

The Los Angeles Times is reporting:

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