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December 31, 2006

Sunday Funnies (2007 Eve edition)

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December 24, 2006

Sunday Funnies (T'was the day before edition)

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December 17, 2006

Sunday Funnies (week before Christmas edition)

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December 10, 2006

Sunday Funnies


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December 04, 2006

Noteworthy events this week

(thanks to Stace at Dos Centavos)

Tuesday, December 5

Americans United for Separation of Church and State features the Rev. Barry Lynn
Stages Repertory Theatre, D'Amico near Allen Parkway and Waugh Drive
6PM -- Refreshments and Registration
7PM -- Rev. Barry Lynn, author of Piety and Politics: The Right-Wing Assault on Religious Freedom

Books will be available for sale; Rev. Lynn will be available to sign books after program.
Bring $3 cash for parking.
Event is Free -- RSVP to HoustonAU@flash.net

Wednesday, December 6

Harris County Democratic Party Holiday Celebration

6PM to 8PM, at the Communications Workers of America Local 6222 union hall
1730 Jefferson Street (at the corner of Jackson St., downtown)
Hosted by Senator Rodney Ellis, County Commissioner Sylvia Garcia, Councilmember Ronald Green, and State Reps. Jessica Farrar and Garnet Coleman.

Please bring non-perishable food items for donation to a local charity, SEACH. We will also be collecting items suitable for sending to the troops in Iraq and Afghanistan for the holidays. We have received requests from them for decorations, party stuff, letters, holiday cards to the soldiers, cookies, candies, and toiletries of any kind.

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December 03, 2006

Sunday Funnies ("is it civil war yet?" edition)

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December 01, 2006

Well I won't swear here...

because after all, I'm the one who had the hissy fit over my friend's potty mouth on the Party sponsored blog but ditto, Greg.

I won't be holding my breath for the Houston Chronicle to print a story about Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Kevin Martin's Further Notice of Proposed Rule Making, or FCC hearings on media ownership.

Published on Friday, December 1, 2006 by the Nieman Watchdog
On Calling Bull#$%t
by Dan Froomkin

Mainstream-media political journalism is in danger of becoming increasingly irrelevant, but not because of the Internet, or even Comedy Central. The threat comes from inside. It comes from journalists being afraid to do what journalists were put on this green earth to do.

What is it about Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert that makes them so refreshing and attractive to a wide variety of viewers (including those so-important younger ones)? I would argue that, more than anything else, it is that they enthusiastically call bull#$%t.

Calling bull#$%t, of course, used to be central to journalism as well as to comedy. And we happen to be in a period in our history in which the substance in question is running particularly deep. The relentless spinning is enough to make anyone dizzy, and some of our most important political battles are about competing views of reality more than they are about policy choices. Calling bull#$%t has never been more vital to our democracy.

Read more here if you have trouble with the Neiman Watchdog.

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