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Like these folks?

FWIW, from my perspective, it is in fact much harder to find media that is *supportive* of the government in the US.

Yea, because Colorado doesn't get frost in the winter.........http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933 ,237977,00.html

The only plus side of this is that when an illegal is busted for one crime or another, and cut loose pending a trial date, there's a better chance of finding them by tracking their gas station purchases, etc.

I would think that the legal immigrants would be up in arms over this dillution of what they work so hard to accomplish.

"Uphill in the snow" stories aside I think that the religious blogger fiasco does a lot more to ruin his credibility. His staff didn't understand the public eye process enough to properly vet a new staff member. Bill O'Reilly's people did some good work on this one; bigots of any persuasion should be exposed.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,251906,00.html [Fox News]
http://youtube.com/watch?v=GkEZVGsdrw8 [YouTube]

Offtopic, yes, but she is dead; died today.

Read the article.

Also, Sen. Freddie Kruger states, "If you want to listen to your iPod, sit down and listen to it," Kruger told WCBS-TV. "You want to walk in the park, enjoy it. You want to jog around a jogging path, all the more power to you, but you should be crossing streets and endangering yourself and the lives of others." Another article on the subject
Good deal, Mr. Kruger! I'll go get my chainsaw and start widly running up and down intersections all over Manhattan chasing people that look at me funny... while listening to an iPod!

What I have seen is criticism from right wing papers about this report either being "unsurprising" or "offering no hope, grim." On the other hand, leftist papers have been in a sort of "we're doomed" sort of mode.

From cnn:

And the report said no matter how much civilization slows or reduces its greenhouse gas emissions, global warming and sea level rise will continue on for centuries.

From foxnews:

Scientists from 113 countries issued a landmark report Friday saying they have little doubt global warming is caused by man, and predicting that hotter temperatures and rises in sea level will "continue for centuries" no matter how much humans control their pollution.

However, they both do go on to say that it would be irresponsible to just sit back and do nothing. Also, we have to adapt to a warmer earth.

I'll consider donating to the ACLU when they stop paying to defend terrorists. I'm not having my money spent on that shit.
 
Back on topic, that kid is in a pretty good situation already. He gets the notoriety for "sticking it to the man" and even if he loses, so what? What can they collect from a 16 year old kid? No judge is going to support garnishing his wages by the time he's 25 and finally making real money.

I am sure there were people who thought the "skeptics" of the world is flat theory were crazy too. There are doubts being raise on global warming (here, here, here). Further, we don't completely understand the science of the climate. Predicting the future climate has uncertainties. Just look at local weather prediction. They don't say the percentages any more, but they use a computer model that gives the percentages like 80% chance of rain, but these predictions are not certain. Some scientists have concerns that global warming has been blown way out of proportion (here).

      I am not saying we shouldn't take some actions, but I am saying that you are ignorant to just rule out everything the skeptics say. Any American plan for energy independence and global warming has to be two fold. Short term plans as a consumer buy more energy effecient appliances and cars; as a company (and government) do that and developer more local resources (like drill for more oil in Alaska, California, the mid-western U.S., and in the Gulf) and update the methods to produce fuels like gas. Refineries are decades old using older technology.

      Now the second part is long term. Start to research feasible, cost efficient, and easy to use alternate energy means for heating, transportation, production, etc. If the technology is not feasible, efficient and easy to use people will not use it. It's that simple. You can should all you want, but people want things that are cheap (& cost effective) and easy to use. The more you need to spend or do to accomplish the task, the less people will use it.

      To dismiss all the doubts of people as the whining and/or ignorant rants of lunatics is not very scientific. All options should be considered. Scientist have had a closed and narrow mind for a long time now. They need to leave the labs a little more and come back to reality. Scientists and people like you are the people who are really arrogant.

here and think that taxes are voluntary. The government isn't too keen on that apparently.

In 1978 an Air Rhodesia plane carrying 52 passengers and four crew members was shot down by guerrillas with a shoulder-fired missile. A few months later, the missile-toting guerrillas fired on another Air Rhodesia flight, killing all 59 people on board. ... In the past 18 months, al Qaeda has twice tried to down planes with shoulder-fired missiles; both times they missed.

"here is a Republican, free-market perspective on the return of the Fairness Doctrine."

Why get all theoretical? We have a "Republican, free-market perspective" on news and fairness: Fox News. The fascism channel, 24x7.

It will be interesting to find out what Shawn's been up to all this time. According to a report on Foxnews.com:
"Neighbor Rick Butler, 43, said the FBI came to his door Thursday night and showed a picture of Ben, asking if he had seen him. He said he had not. But he had seen a boy he now believes was Hornbeck.
He said he saw no evidence that the boy now believed to be Hornbeck was scared or trying to get away. He had seen Devlin and the teen pitch a tent in the courtyard.
"I didn't see or hear anything odd or unusual from the apartment," Butler said. "I just figured them for father and son."

I have also heard that Hornbeck had access to a cell phone. I wonder why he didn't just call home?

Uh... I've heard of one too many cell phones smoking. I don't want to see another one....

:-)

• The memorial was voted on by the city council.
• The ACLU was complaining because it is on a public waterway.
• The ACLU does not believe the claim that it is being done by a private group.

I'm not asking you to agree with the ACLU on this one (I don't) - just to acknowledge that by omitting those facts, Fox News deliberately distorted the story. To be fair, they did later provide some balance to the story (at least on their web-site - I never heard this story, but I'm not a regular viewer, either).

Again, why was this not noted all over the blogosphere? I'm guessing that because it is expected from Fox News.

As a member of the "Man has [little] effect" crowd, I'd rather see everyone focus on issues that we actually have, rather than fabricating new ones.

So, why do you think that Bill O'Reilly, GW Bush, and (gasp, finally!) ExxonMobil disagree with you? Is it just because they're a bunch of envirowackos trying to destroy the economy?

Google hyponatremia.

http://geo-outdoors.info/hyponatremia.htm

There have also been past incidents where frats, having been banned from using alcohol in initiations (to prevent alcohol poisoning), switched to water, because "water is safe!"

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,146359,00.html (short version)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/ a/2005/02/04/BAGNSB576121.DTL (longer article)

http://www.mashinc.org/resources-essay-water.html (another frat initiation using water that resulted in death)

There's a reason they tell you to eat and drink and the trail... and not just drink. If you want to get into the nitty-gritty of the mechanisms of water posioning, consider this:

1. Your nervous system uses electrical impulses
2. These electrical impulses rely on ions from such elements as Sodium (Na), Potassium (K), and Calcium
3. These electrical impulses regulate everything from brain function to the beating of your heart
4. Imbalance of ions due to excessive water consumption without some sort of accompanying salt (for example, a snack bar, or a bag of chips) disrupts your nervous system
5. Various organs shut down, or go unregulated
6. You die

See: http://www.people.eku.edu/ritchisong/301notes2.htm

However, this film seems to be classified as a documentary by most people who aren't rabid Republicans.

Just to be clear, there are rabid Republicans who also classify it as a documentary. My Dad comes to mind. Also, although I know he might not "technically" be Republican, O'Reilly is definitely rabid, and he has now come around.

Link

75MPH is the rural speed limit in the midwest here. Imagine if your car was set to california 65MPH, and you were in Texas, where the speed limit is 80 MPH. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,197072,00.html The speed limit used to be 55, then 65. Do you want your car to be limited to a speed less than the legal speed limit?

Also, I have driven a Ford Tarus that had a limiter at 107MPH. If you went past that speed, where the engine was still in the middle of the tachometer, the throttle would cut until 95MPH.

My old Subaru Loyale couldn't go past 80, unless it was downhill, with a tail wind, with a few mile straight, then you might be able to reach 100 MPH.

* Ok it isn't the worst idea ever, but it is up there--the only way to get it to work is to implement censorship. I find it amazing that anybody who is a free speech advocate would criticize opposition to this domain. The pressure that the Bush Administration brought against this TLD was one of best free speech actions in 2006. Heck, even Markos Moulitsas Zúniga should be giving praise for stopping the .XXX TLD.

http://www.foxnews.com/printer_friendly_story/0,35 66,241578,00.html

Space Junk: Norad identifies Denver light as body of Russian rocket re-entering the atmosphere

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...certainly more than if Clinton had continued ignoring them

Obviously subjective, but I sure don't feel any more secure now, with subway bombers and gatoraid-n-hairgel rougues still trying to meke their points...all we did was stir the nest.

Only an idiot would.

My point exactly.

only an idiot would ask a question such as that...

But isn't that the point? The world being a safer place because my mail can be now be opened indiscriminently is an idiotic statement. You have supported my point.

First, asshat...

If you are going to debate, be a f()cking grownup.

we didn't kill 3K soldiers

No, but we sure as hell sent them over there to their doom, didn't we? The Iraqis didn't swim over here and get them.

ein executed Sheits(sp), not Sunnis. Third, he executed more like hundreds of thousands

My bad, they were Sunni. I'm sure he did much worse in his time, but that's not what he hung for (officially): Quote from FoxNews: The so-called Butcher of Baghdad, who was president of Iraq from 1979 until he was deposed by Coalition forces in April 2003, was convicted of the 1982 killings of 148 Shiites in the city of Dujail.

I'm not arguing for Clinton or what he did (although I was able to carry hair gel on an airplane back then). I'm arguing against using the really really f()cking broad umbrella of terrorism as a reason to step on the bill of rights.

Most also don't "believe in" global warming.

The ironic thing here is that a common sentiment around here is that the record companies should take a cue (and/or clue) from allofmp3 and sell tracks for around $0.10 a song. Yet the current law, which dictates $0.08 for mechanicals, would not allow that to happen. And when a few weeks ago it made the news that the record companies were trying to lower mechanicals, the news was not well received by the Slashbots.

This is where most of the money for a track should be going--to the creative talent. If you look at the breakdown for the $1 that gets spent on an iTunes track, about $0.70 goes to the RIAA member [cite: Fox]. They have to give $0.08 - $0.16 out for mechanicals (by law you say). That means, at worst they get to keep $0.54 per track for producing nothing (especially true in the case of digital distribution). They want to lower mechanicals so that they can increase their profit margin, not so that consumers get reduced prices. That is why Slashdot readers (nice Ad Hominem with the 'Slashbots' by the way) did not receive the news well.

If they did manage to get mechanicals reduced to $0.001, they still wouldn't offer a service like AllOfMp3; they still wouldn't accept payment from AllOfMp3. I agree with your argument that they can't under the current conditions, but my argument is that they never would under any circumstances.

I feel like a compromise can still be reached. I think the labels--at least the major labels--are looking at this the wrong way. The true creative talent can still receive their "high" mechanicals, the label can take their fair share of profits, and the final distributor can make a nice profit too. What if you offered songs at $0.55, with a breakdown of $0.16 for mechanicals, $0.14 for the label and $0.25 for distribution (I made this last number up because it seems to be the amount needs for Apple to break even)? Especially if you offered non-DRM, variable bit-rate files (like eMusic)--I have to imagine a service like this would crush Apple and be highly profitable for the recording industry. I also imagine that if the RIAA itself was the digital distributor that they could offer distribution at much less than $0.25 / track, and could make even more profit there.

I firmly believe that the reason this doesn't happen is because all of the labels are run by old-time executives that fear change and want to maximize their profits while minimizing their efforts. They don't even see that with a little bit of effort they could double their profits.

The 2 headed reptile does not even hold a candle to this 7 legged deer!!! http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,236483,00.html More pictures: http://www.mdwfp.com/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=245 89

Navy SEALs apprehended al-Jamadi as a suspect in the Oct. 27, 2003, bombing of Red Cross offices in Baghdad that killed 12 people. His alleged role in the bombing is unclear. According to court documents and testimony, the SEALs punched, kicked and struck al-Jamadi with their rifles before handing him over to the CIA early on Nov. 4. By 7 a.m., al-Jamadi was dead.

Navy prosecutors in San Diego have charged nine SEALs and one sailor with abusing al-Jamadi and others. All but two lieutenants have received nonjudicial punishment; one lieutenant is scheduled for court-martial in March, the other is awaiting a hearing before the Navy's top SEAL.

>See you lose credibility when you complain Bush condoned use of torture. College fraternities do worse

I suppose I should be thankful that he spelled "lose" correctly...

'The prisoner died in a position known as "Palestinian hanging" '.
'When the men lowered Jamadi to the floor, Frost told investigators, "blood came gushing out of his nose and mouth, as if a faucet had been turned on." .

Yes, it's officially condoned: "...the decision to deport Arar was made at the highest levels of the U.S. justice department, with a special removal order signed by John Ashcroft's former deputy, Larry Thompson." "Deported", you see, to Syria. The Syrian torture the US knowingly sent him to made him say later "I forgot every moment that I enjoyed in my life".

The Canadian authorities have acknowledged that Arar had no connection to any terrorist group or activity.

The threat of terrorism is omnipresent. Potential terrorist plots are reported constantly, in the US and elsewhere. Some of them may be false alarms, while other are slightly more suspicious.

Who can even make heads or tails of all this global warming stuff?

We get reports like this, within a day of getting reports like cows cause more greenhouse gases than cars, planes, and all other forms of transportation put together

Say what you want, but I'm quite skeptical of their ability to accurately forecast this stuff...haven't there been sensationalist reports like this for the last 40 years? All of which were disproven when more accurate methods of forecasting came around?

NOT ...

See :
http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2006/11/ap-is-bu sted-uses-bogus-source-for.html

Do you think something like this stops them from falsifying news ?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061129/ap_on_re_mi_ea /iraq_revenge_attacks

Think again. Obviously looking at an actual live video feed in the iraqi capital will reveal a quite normal life, with markets, loads of people ... Doesn't sound like a civil war at _all_ actually.

http://www.foxnews.com/video2/bagCam.html

hmmmmm ....

Or, it could be a quote from Iwata himself:

"Some people are getting a lot more excited than we'd expected," Iwata said. "We need to better communicate to people how to deal with Wii as a new form of entertainment."

As reported by Reuters and passed on by Fox News.

Uh no.. Will Slashdot lose its patent on dupes?

It's not really a dupe. You see, last time the "news" was that news.com was running a story about the case. This time, the "news" is that embedded.com is running a story about the case. The case itself is hardly news -- it's been around since April of 2005. Well, the real case is still older, but that's when they appealed to the Supreme Court.

Next week, it'll be news again -- and with a lot of luck they might find a link that's actually informative. Then again, that page has been around since June, so it's hardly news. Maybe coverage of the recent arguments would really be better. Oh wait...that's only a blog entry, undoubtedly written by some left wing nutcase. Maybe by next week, we can get a highly informed piece from a legitimate news service instead.



What, me sarcastic? Nevvvvverrrrrr!

Foxnews has a report on the Judge's ruling. It should be added to article.

Foxnews has a report on the Judge's ruling. It should be added to article.

Still has a long way to go before it beats my favourite satire site

Hopefully Americans will recognize this before we merrily join the UK and strap video cameras to every public park, building, and employee.

Oh, we'd never go that far. We'll just put up cameras for traffic enforcement. And law enforcement. And then link them up. And upgrade the software to do face/gait recognition and look for "suspicious behavior." And require private cameras at bars, and link those to the police. Then for good measure have the cameras bark orders at people. By then we'll have found other creative uses for the technology, and implement that by little steps.

I just got through writing a science-fiction story combining all of the above with a looming uber-AI trying to prevent crime. Somewhat farfetched and paranoid, but scary, and except for the AI part we do seem to be building that sort of surveillance society, one piece at a time. I shudder to think of the UK's "anti-social behavio(u)r" rules being used to watch people wherever they go and even yell at them through the one-way glass.

This is a taser. It fires wire-connected electrodes at a target to electrocute and subdue them. It's effectively a single-use item.

This is a stungun. The electrodes form part of the unit, hence it requires close proximity and physical contact, thus allows multiple discharges.

The student in the story was hit multiple times by discharges from a stungun, not a taser. Physical effects from both stunguns and tasers vary from person to person - some are completely fine after charge removal, others are dazed and immobile for 15 to 30 minutes. Others can and have died.

The tricky part is reading between the lines...

From TFA:

[Gates on "powerful ideas"]

If I knew medicine like I do computers, I would like to be able to control the [human] immune system, to fight against the onset of disease on a world level ... but I think the idea of the PC still would have topped that.

Translation: "Y'all better be glad I'm just screwing up your PC."

[Gates on how Live.com competes with Google]

Competition between our two companies will be good for the whole industry.

...until we leverage all the content out of Google with IP lawsuits.

[Gates on recent struggles with the EU]

We have worked out our differences. If they wanted us to leave out some of our components for some reason, we could have delivered a European version of Vista for them. But it turned out that wasn't necessary.

Interesting that there's no specific mention of what was modified to make the European Edition "unnecessary". It's obvious that Vista is still packing Windows Media Player (component in question) Is this IE/Netscape all over again)?

[Gates on the next 10 years]

We're on to another wave of innovation; we just need to make sure the United States continues to stay right up there in relation to the rest of the world.

This is after quoting all the "amazing stuff" that's coming with the Xbox360, Zune and voice recognition. Yes, World, be like the good ol' U.S. of A-holes! Cave-in to an oppression of content not seen since the book burnings of 1938 Germany!

[Gates on the delays of Vista]

Yes, it's later than we planned. But we want it to be right. It reminds me of when we released Windows 95 late that year, taking much longer than we planned.

...and we all know how "right" Windoze95 turned out to be. (...but it's got a killer version of MS-DOS!)

[Gates on the exposure of medical research furthered by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation]

I get a little upset with the media, which will cover a plane crash in India that killed 100 people, but it won't cover the fact that 1,000 times that many died in Africa today from malnutrition or disease.

Of course! That's why Billy has a problem with the media. ...or is it another reason?

If Gates did turn out to be a doctor, I'm sure he'd be a plastic surgeon. If he can't make you well, he can at least make you look good.

But also for other special interest groups we're supposed to like.

It's nice to see that somebody else finally noticed. Glenn Reynolds was writing about this problem back in 2002:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,42050,00.html

Recycling is supposed to be a good thing, so you'd think that media organizations would be proud when they do it. But in fact, they tend to keep it quiet.

I'm not talking about aluminum cans here, but about the tendency of media organizations to turn press releases and written-to-order opinion pieces into apparently objective accounts. This happens all the time, partly because of media laziness, and partly because of ingenuity on the part of the various advocacy groups that depend on media coverage to advance their agendas and promote their fundraising campaigns.

The first part of this formula, media laziness, was demonstrated by journalism students here at the University of Tennessee a few years ago. They produced a fake press release for a non-existent student group opposed to political correctness and sent it to various news organizations. Some ran the item; some even embellished the report of an event that never happened with additional details that weren't in the phony press release. None called the contact number (which was genuine) or did anything else to check its validity. Yet when they were exposed, their response was to call the experiment "unethical."

http://instapundit.com/archives/021755.php

News stories, to a degree seldom appreciated by the general public, are often the product of press releases generated by trade associations and interest groups. Often those releases are converted into news stories by the simple expedient of placing a reporter's byline on top. Television news stories (especially those appearing on local stations) are often supplied fully produced, with blank spots left for the local news reporter to insert commentary that makes the story appear his or her own. Opinion columns are often "placed" by businesses or interest groups to support a particular point of view -- often, they are even written by those groups and then run with the byline of distinguished individuals, or even regular commentators, who have barely read the piece, much less written it. Indeed, the Sasso "attack video" was something of this sort, for the journalists who broke the Biden/Kinnock story did not at first disclose their source.

Most readers and viewers have small appreciation of how little of what they see on television or read in newspapers and magazines is original with the reporters, editors, and producers involved. Yet in fact news organizations are highly dependent on predigested information from public relations firms, government officials, and advocacy groups, information that is often passed on to their readers and viewers with no indication that it is not original. That problem is not new, but it has gotten worse in recent years. . . .

Although a "video news release" is still more expensive to produce than a standard paper press release, they have become much more common. According to a recent poll, seventy-five percent of TV news directors reported using video news releases at least once per day.

Remember when John Kerry brought up a mention of Dick Cheney's lesbian daughter? That kind of backfired.

FOX News link -- too lazy to do better. IMHO the hypocracy of the Republicans is one problem, but the farce of "family values" when your dad is actively legislating against your life is even more astonishing.

Of course, they definitely kept Mary Cheney out of the public eye. In fact, the Cheneys overall seem to be kept in a locked box somewhere and only unleashed when it's time to sling some serious shite.

Are you pulling this out of your ass or do you have an actual source? I've pored over the news reports and I find that the only real quote from that question is "Both those men are doing fantastic jobs and I strongly support them". Everyone else paraphrases him to say he wanted Rumsfeld to stay until the end of the presidency. I'm guessing it went along the lines of:

Reporter: Will you ask Dick Cheney or Donald Rumsfeld to resign before the end of your presidency?
Bush: No.
and then later
Bush: Both those men are doing fantastic jobs and I strongly support them.

But it's only a guess. Until there's an actual transcript, no one can say anything as definitive as you did.

And just in case you want a fair and balanced report:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,226963,00.html ?sPage=fnc.politics/youdecide2006

I note that in today's press conference, Bush never said anything like "Rumsfeld only left because he wanted to and not because I wanted him to."

Personally, I believe Bush was truthful in his answer at the time . He really didn't plan on asking Rumsfeld to leave. He honestly thought the Republicans weren't going to lose quite so badly. I can see how he thought that, as it was a very tough election to call. I wish he would be honest and admit that the election results were the reason Rumsfeld is leaving. I mean, would it be so bad to change your mind based on the will of the people?

Here's Fox News' roundup on the voting shenanigans.

It leads with coverage of the voter intimidation in the Virgina Allen/Web race (in which registered democrats are receiving calls informing them, incorrectly, that their polling place has changed), but does not list the candidates or parties involved. And the description of the incidents was written to make them sound vague:

The reports are sporadic at best, but officials said all will be investigated. One law enforcement source said the FBI is in contact with elections officials in Richmond, who forwarded "three" instances of something that looked "irregular" to them. Of those three, the official said, two look to have been provided to Virginia election officials by secondary sources, and the accounts of what happened were not particularly descriptive.One such instance appeared to consist of a phone call -- a voter answered the phone prior to leaving for the local polling place and the caller asked who the voter was planning to support, then gave the address of a supposed polling station. The address was not correct, leading some in Richmond to think the voter was purposely misdirected. Tracking this handful of reports is going to be "difficult," the source said.

Note the "use" of "quotes" around "single" words when they're really not "necessary."

Okay, so they're not naming names, right? But the second report in the Fox News article gets right to the point:

In New Jersey, Republican Tom Kean Jr.'s New Jersey campaign office was reported vandalized. A chain and padlock was placed on the door and keys were broken off in the locks at the side entrances. "It appears the Democrats have already resorted to Election Day dirty tricks," said Kean campaign manager Evan Kozlow, who said the "desperate ploys" will not prevent the campaign "from informing voters that Bob Menendez is under federal criminal investigation and is unfit to serve in the United States Senate."

<Borat>very nice.</Borat>

And then Fox News found it necessary to report some graffiti with a Republican's name in it:

Graffiti that included a Communist-style hammer and sickle along with the name of Rep. Curt Weldon, R-Pa., was spray-painted on an overpass and a department store outside Springfield. Weldon's campaign accused backers of Democratic challenger Joe Sestak.

...but no mention whatsoever that Colorado Democrat candidate Jay Fawcett's HQ was also vandalized overnight.

And more naming names:

In New Jersey, voters in at least seven jurisdictions attempting to vote for Republican Tom Kean Jr., and found their machines "locked" for Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez, according to GOP Committee attorney Mark Sheridan, who called it a "disturbing and developing trend" emerging at the polls.

Compare this to Fox News' coverage of the incidents reported last week in Florida and Texas, in which people who tried to vote Democrat had their votes changed to Republican. Oh yeah, there wasn't any (please post a link if I'm wrong).

And then back to giving vague details that don't mention party affiliation:

In Louisville, Ky., one poll worker was arrested on charges of assault and interfering with an election after he allegedly choked a voter and tossed the voter out the door. Election officials called police, and the voter wanted to file charges, said Paula McCraney, a spokeswoman for the Jefferson County Clerk.

Because they have an article on the story as well.

So, is Fox News part of the drive-by media, as well? Because they have the story as well. Granted, it's quite tricky to find on the Fox News web-site (I had to use "search" to find it).

Although it did take me a while to find it.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/11/06/stern.obit.a p/index.html
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,3383,011254,00.html
Famous shock jock Howard Stern was found dead in his Manhattan apartment late Sunday evening. The popular fifty two year old radio personality who recently moved his show to Sirius satellite radio had been bludgeoned to death in his bed. Authorities are pursuing various leads in the investigation. Howard Stern is survived by his fiancee Beth Ostrovsky and three daughters. His agent Don Buchwald did not immediately return phone calls.

People will accept the violence. But the kissing may be over the top for a lot of male gamers.

We all love the lesbians, but male on male still doesn't sell well to the mainstream.

Of course, Jack Thompson did his best to help publicize the game, so we'll have to see how well it does.