It's hard to keep track of all the bullshit happening right now. Did ya hear that Fox has hired Judy Miller?

Fox Glibly Excuses Judy Miller's Past Indiscretions

In today's Howard Kurtz column, which teases Fox News' acquisition of Miss Run Amok (aka Judith Miller), Fox's Senior VP John Moody explains away all of that...stuff...from the past. My favorite part is this little bit of gloss on the ol' cost of doin' business:

"She has a very impressive resume...We've all had stories that didn't come out exactly as we had hoped."

Yyyyeah. In other words, no one at Fox can claim that their furtive manipulations of the medium have always generated the partisan outcomes they'd hope to engineer. In this one case, however, Judy Miller did succeed. And Fox is big enough not to blame her for the thousands of potential viewers who are dead because of it.

Yeah, but not bitterly contested. That'll probably wait until after the voting....

I'm still aghast at the Missouri 2004 election, the Secretary of State was running for Governor and continued in his capacity of running the election. That's right, he was in charge of his own election and he made clearly partisan choices in administrating the election.

I remember listening to an international election observer on NPR talking about elections in general (I believe the context was the Ukranian election at the time, I don't remember for sure) and he pointed out Missouri governors race as an example of an election that would not pass muster from observers.

Considering I've run into people in this country who fail to grasp that I am a citizen as I came from New Mexico, I'm a little easier on those who might miss the factuality of Bohemia. Raises an eyebrow, but just warrants a gentle correction.

My parents lived in Farmington for a year, shortly after they moved to the States. My mother, as a result, subscribed to New Mexico magazine. I was always both baffled and amused by the One of our Fifty is Missing column.

I'm still aghast at the Missouri 2004 election, the Secretary of State was running for Governor and continued in his capacity of running the election.

Did his opponent raise a fuss? I'm surprised stuff like this almost never gets to be hugely controversial.

I was always both baffled and amused by the One of our Fifty is Missing column.

We actually made the column by something that happened to my grandmother! I think she was trying to mail us something, but I don't recall the details.

From the "Small towns in Utah are odd" column

MORGAN, Utah (AP) - A Utah sheriff's office has found that it shouldn't underestimate the golf cart as a getaway car. A suspect in a souped-up cart managed to elude officers who pursued him last month through an alfalfa field _ but only for a while. He was arrested the next day at his grandmother's house.

Officers started pursuing the driver after he was spotted spinning out in a city park in Morgan. He took off into an alfalfa field and jumped irrigation ditches that the sheriff's cruisers couldn't cross.

Morgan County Sheriff's Sgt. Scott Peay suspects the cart was fitted with a car engine instead of the original electric motor.

No word on whether the kid yelled "Yee-hah!" as he jumped the ditches. Or if there's a Confederate flag painted on the awning.

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Did his opponent raise a fuss? I'm surprised stuff like this almost never gets to be hugely controversial.

There were a bunch of editorials and stuff along the lines of this one:

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But it never really got into the media much. It was a close election, but there wasn't a lot of controversy afterwards. Nonetheless, having people involved in a campaign being in charge of the election is bad enough, but having an actual candidate in charge? At that point the system is just broken.

No word on whether the kid yelled "Yee-hah!" as he jumped the ditches. Or if there's a Confederate flag painted on the awning

It's the Dukes of Sand Hazards.

Thank you-- I have now been earwormed with "Just some good ol' boys..."

GAH!

No word on whether the kid yelled "Yee-hah!" as he jumped the ditches. Or if there's a Confederate flag painted on the awning

Pro'lly good that they got away, as they were probably armed with exploding arrows... I mean, no outhouse would be safe.