Flashback

When MTV was new, each new video would result in outbursts of, "Wow! I never knew what they looked like!."

(this has been a public service message from the old fogies music lovers consortium)

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 Bias at Fox News Documented in New Film, Featuring Former Employees

Former Fox Journalists, Internal Memos to Blow the Whistle on Fox Partisan Bias

Progressives Call for Media Reform

NEW YORK, July 9 /PRNewswire/ -- At a New York press conference this coming Monday, four former Fox News employees will go on the record to expose Fox's persistent partisan bias, while releasing internal memorandums from Fox News Channel showing executive level instructions to Fox on how to bias the news.

The four Fox whistleblowers appear, along with three others, in Robert Greenwald's new documentary "Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism," excerpts of which will be shown at the news conference. The film is a devastating indictment of the Fox News Channel's purposeful disinformation in the pursuit of partisan objectives. Also at the news conference, Common Cause and MoveOn will outline their forthcoming campaign OUTFOX, starting with thousands of house parties to show the film taking place on Sunday, July 18th. ( ............... )

When life gives you lemons, make lemon jello

I'm tired of being one of those people that shows up to potlucks and cookouts with store-bought food. However, I don't cook much or well. (Well, not completely true... my baked chicken gets rave reviews.... but I digress). Anyway, in an attempt to get myself out of the store-bought-stuff-at-potlucks rut, I decided to become good at making one thing, and making it all the time for potlucks and parties that I attend. I'd be my, um, signature dish? yeah, that's the ticket.

So lately I've been making gelatine. I make gelatine from scratch... I use fruit juice and Knox unflavored gelatine. People are usually pretty surprised that it can be made from scratch... I guess they assume that Bill Cosby has some magical potion that creates the yucky powder that makes the fake-tasting Jello products. Yes, its just hot water, hot juice, cold juice, and unflavored powdered gelatine. I think it tastes significantly better than Jello-brand gelatine.

So tonight I'm making gelatine for a party tomorrow. I decided to make Lemon (and I hope you all understand the humor in this). However, rather than buying lemonade, I found Never Bitter Lemonade on www.AllRecipes.com and spent the evening making it from fresh lemons, sugar, water, and their secret ingredient for reducing the bitterness. When it's done I'll use it to make the gelatine.

We'll see how it turns out tomorrow!

First day of Domestic Partnership in NJ

DP Celebration in NJ predicted to draw thousands
I spent a lot of time earlier this week making pages for this event. It's amazing how difficult it is even when someone else is supplying the text. Anyway, the interesting thing is that since the law goes into effect on July 10, and that's a Saturday, many towns are opening their clerk's office on the weekend to be the first to register Domestic Partnerships.

w00t! and all that. (and now onto marriage... NJ will be next, I'm sure. The lawsuit is going well.)