digital emunction » Outrages http://www.digitalemunction.com A website dedicated to literature, politics, life, and anything else worth talking about. Founded in 2006 by Robert P. Baird Thu, 09 Sep 2010 02:11:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Rough Justice: Dana Milbank Takes the Hatchet to Jeremiah Wright http://www.digitalemunction.com/2008/04/28/rough-justice-dana-milbank-takes-the-hatchet-to-jeremiah-wright/ http://www.digitalemunction.com/2008/04/28/rough-justice-dana-milbank-takes-the-hatchet-to-jeremiah-wright/#comments Tue, 29 Apr 2008 04:31:23 +0000 Robert P. Baird http://www.digitalemunction.com/wordpress/2008/04/28/rough-justice-dana-milbank-takes-the-hatchet-to-jeremiah-wright/ Today, in a posting on his “Rough Sketch” blog at the Washington Post Dana Milbank perpetrated one of the most grotesque examples of hatchet journalism I’ve seen in a while. I’ll get to the particulars soon enough, but first…

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Tonight we raise a glass to the 22nd amendment…

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(Hollywood, California)

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The full text of an SMS I received at 11:13am this morning:

Please check your campus e-mail for a message from the president about a homicide that occurred last night on S. Ellis Ave.

The text message was the…

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Chicago police officers are the subject of more brutality complaints per officer than the national average, and the Police Department is far less likely

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Security forces were reported to have detained about 500 opposition party figures, lawyers and human rights advocates on Sunday, and about a dozen privately owned television news stations remained off the air. International

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The Guardian reported last week that a fight has broken out between Terry Eagleton and Martin Amis, who now are both teaching at Manchester University. In a new introduction to his primer Ideology, Eagleton attacks Amis’s views…

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The Blackwater and State Department records reveal that Blackwater’s use of force in Iraq is frequent and extensive, resulting in significant

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]]> http://www.digitalemunction.com/2007/10/02/blackwater-fever/feed/ 0 Nauseating Non Sequitur of the Week http://www.digitalemunction.com/2007/07/30/nauseating-non-sequitur-of-the-week/ http://www.digitalemunction.com/2007/07/30/nauseating-non-sequitur-of-the-week/#comments Tue, 31 Jul 2007 03:16:01 +0000 Robert P. Baird http://www.digitalemunction.com/wordpress/2007/07/30/nauseating-non-sequitur-of-the-week/ Most important of all, what will be said and done by those of us who take no side in filthy religious wars? The enemies of intolerance cannot be tolerant, or neutral, without inviting their own suicide.

Which will it be,…

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