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In The News . . .

Catching up on some of the headlines:

Deep Throat Revealed![*1]
OK, who really cares? I mean, I’m a pretty serous news junkie but please, some 90-year-old guy gets trotted out before his demise so that his golddigger family can cash in on his not-so-noble past? (Not-so-noble in that he wasn’t leaking out of civic duty, but because he was P.O’ed about being passed over for FBI Director. Next story, please!)

France, Netherlands Reject the EU Constitution![*2]
So much for European Unity, at least for a while.

Michael Jackson Trial goes to Jury![*3]
And, in a related story, MJ has “back pain.” Riiiiighttttt . . .

Amnesty International Destroys its Credibility![*4]
In a master stroke of transparent international leftism, Amnesty International head (ironically named Kahn) equates guards kicking holy books and generally being disrespectful of murderers and terrorists to Soviet camps where thousands and millions were worked and starved to death by Stalin. KAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHNNNNNN!!!!!!!.

This is “news?”

Lead paragraph from a Kansas City Star[*1] front page story:

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon on Friday released new details about mishandling of the Qur’an at the Guantanamo Bay prison, confirming that a soldier deliberately kicked the Muslim holy book.

OK, so kicking a religion’s holy book is a pretty darn impolite thing to do, and depending on whether or not you believe in the teachings in the book, might just consign you to Hell. But really, is it front page news? Really?

My Hidden Camera Can Beat Up Your Hidden Camera

via Fark[*1] and the Denver Post[*2] :

The ABC affiliate (Denver channel 7) planned to use money and hidden cameras to research whether Martino, who appears regularly on Fox-31 News, takes payments to endorse products and services. Martino fought back with a similarly surreptitious tactic: his own hidden camera.

Channel 7 initially asked a Denver businessman for help with its report. At Martino’s behest, the man on Wednesday secretly taped the journalists as they outlined their proposed investigation.

Discussion Topic: Mainstream journalism today is nothing more than an elaborate, expensive, destructive and tedious game of “gotcha.” Arguments for? Against?

For These Three Days, Royals Are On Top

Does it get any better than sweeping a series[*1] from the New York Yankees? Certainly not for the struggling Kansas City Royals.

The win left the Royals a perfect 3-0 under new manager Buddy Bell and gave the last place Royals their first three game winning streak of the season. The crowd of 25,590 was enthused by their team’s success and chanted, ‘Sweep! Sweep! Sweep!’ in the ninth inning.

Ad-Aware SE 1.06 is out

One of the better spyware/adware removal packages.

Download it here[*1] .

Movin’ On Up

We barreled through the 100-visit-per-day mark in May, with 136 average visits per day in the month. Our growth curve is quite satisfactory, especially considering we haven’t really gone too far out of our way to do any kind of promotion, cross-linking, trackback, or any of the other tricks of the blogging trade to get us out and noticed in the Blogosphere.

Here’s the average daily unique visits per day since this iteration of Medary.com went on line in February:
May 2005, 136 hits per day;
Apr 2005, 75 hits per day;
Mar 2005, 62 hits per day;
Feb 2005, 39 hits per day.

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Remembering

Memorial Day is about remembering. Remembering our honored dead, those who died in battle[*1] . At the same time, I think it is right and appropriate to remember those who served to protect those of us who didn’t.

My father served in World War II. He was in Burma as a combat engineer. He had many stories, some he wrote down, fewer he shared with me, his youngest son. The most memorable one he told me concerned digging latrines in Burma.

He wasn’t a “hero” in the sense that he charged into battle to save comrades (or maybe he did–like I said, he didn’t share all of his stories.) But he served, he did his duty. He helped save the world, by digging latrines.

He came home, raised a family, surveyed dams and power lines, designed irrigation systems. He served, he did his duty.

This weekend, Memorial Day weekend, he is remembered.

I miss you, Dad.