Month: June 2007

  • The limelight of hate

    Leonard Pitts Jr. writes a column for the Miami Herald that is syndicated nationally. He won the Pulitzer Prize for commentary in 2004 and is the author of “Becoming Dad: Black Men and the Journey to Fatherhood.” On June 3, he gave what a number of racial fringe groups and even conservative bloggers have been…

  • The news is funnier than the comedy

    This is just funnier than Jon Stewart, but at least it means my kids are on top of the news. The people most knowledgeable about news events, according to a new Pew study, are: … those who got their news from the Web sites of major papers and those who watched programs like The Colbert…

  • $10 DSL from AT&T

    Rex Hammock notes that AT&T, the telephone company formerly known as BellSouth in these parts, is offering an unadvertised $10 DSL rate as part of a government settlement. AN AP story from late yesterday says: The DSL, or digital subscriber line, plan introduced Saturday is part of the concessions made by AT&T to the Federal…