Top Stories Friday 22 Nov
Liberal Oasis thinks he heard this before:
If you are going after Jesse James, you ought to organize the posse first.— Al Gore, 9/23/02
Contrary to my image as a Texan with two guns on my side, I’m more comfortable with a posse.
— Dubya, 11/21/02
Calpundit on one of my personal bêtes noirs, the McDonalds Coffee case:
WOULD YOU LIKE SOME TORT REFORM WITH THAT BURGER?….Remember the infamous McDonald’s “hot coffee” lawsuit? A huge payout to someone who spilled some coffee on herself! Usually trotted out as exhibit #1 that our court system is out of control.
It always annoys me when I hear about this, because the fact is that Stella Lieback deserved the award she got. Charles Kuffner tells you why, and the Center for Consumer Law explains what the real award was.
Body and Soul has a few thoughts on
that p.c. liberal media:
But this glass ceiling holds us all down, because it effects the kind of news and opinion we get. A survey last year by the Media Management Center’s Readership Institute showed that newspapers with few women newsroom managers had more gender stereotyping in the way news assignments were handed out — men covered politics, women covered human-interest features. According to another study, by the University of Wisconsin-Madison, male reporters are far more likely than women to skew what they cover by citing a disproportionate number of male sources. So not only is the perspective of women reporters lacking in much hard news, but the point of view of women experts gets shortchanged as well. And readers are the losers.