Oprah Winfrey follows “A Million Little Pieces” with Elie Wiesel’s “Night.”
Her Iranian viewers must have suggested this to continue the “fabricated memoirs” theme or something.

What? The New York Times mis-identified munitions in a photo accompanying a story about the attempted plinking of Ayman Al-Zawahiri? They called an artillery shell a missile component?
Bah. Who’s keeping score, anyway?
Me, of course…
TOP ELEVEN NEW YORK TIMES MUNITIONS BLUNDERS
11. Listed “Bow-Mounted Flamethrower” among armaments aboard the U.S.S. Naitulus. Everyone knows you mount then astern to burn any submarines chasing you.
10. Cain slew Abel with the jawbone of an ass, not a 357 Magnum as a gun control editorial by Maureen Dowd claimed in 2003.
9. The United States only had two completed nuclear bombs in 1945. A third weapon named “Big Boy” in the shade of a fat junevile in checkered pants holding an upraised platter with a hamburger on it may or may not have existed, but it was certainly never dropped on Tokyo.
8. Atomic bomb was dropped on Japan by the Enola Gay, not the Ben Gay. (blatant example of inserting advertising within news copy?)
7. Mistook actual authentic Native American tomahawks for Tomahawk missiles during French-Indian War in a scathing anti-Native American casinos lobbying editorial back in 1995. (still waiting on the retraction)
6. That’s no space station, it’s a moon. The Death Star does not exist, Tom Friedman, nor is there a top-secret Defense Department project to build one. (yet)
5. “The Charge Of The Light Brigade” was not, in fact, done with flashlights. (we’re not sure what William Safire was smoking that day)
4. Claimed that the U.S.S. Maine was sunk “by a really huge friggin’ rock hurled by angry giants.” (But Jayson Blair claims he has photos, he just can’t find which CDs he burned the files to)
3. Classic depiction of Yosemite Sam mis-identified as a sword-wielding ninja during Kennedy-Nixon debates.
2. Abraham Lincoln was not assassinated with a Zulu spear by John Wilkes Booth. Booth merely carried the spear as a backup should his pistols jam, and it served as a makeshift crutch after fracturing his ankle in the leap from the box to the stage.
1. The Firebombing of Dresden was not accomplished using fire-breathing serpents, wyrms, or dragons, no matter what Kurt Vonnegut may have told you in an exclusive interview. He was just trying to get into your pants.

Or do others find it creepy that Coretta Scott King’s statement at The King Center’s web site speaks of her husband as “Dr. King” repeatedly?
Did you shout “Martin” when you were in the sack together? (Of course not… Herbert Hoover made sure that Dr. King was in the sack with marijuana-using prostitutes and making home movies. How silly of me.)
Did she really write this? When?
Never mind the fact that she’s only a few hand-waves and a drool-towel from joining Ariel Sharon in the vegetable bin right now, suggesting that this is a reprint or words shoved into her mouth from one of her kids taking a break from fighting over selling the King Center to the Parks Department, but I’m getting flashbacks of Bob Dole’s creepy repeated use of the third-person in reference to himself.
“Bob Dole believes in Dr. King’s legacy… Bob Dole has a dream…”
For all of her faults, at least Courtney Love refers to Kurt Cobain in close and familiar terms in between trips to rehab. And Yoko… um… who the heck understands that vampire, anyway?

Read this story about the fighting spirit of Marine bomb expert, Gunnery Sgt. Michael Burghardt, who was nearly blown to bits by an IED which detonated while he was disarming it. Story here.

My local paper, The Houston Chronicle, celebrates Martin Luther King Day with a heavy-handed left-wing hijacking of King’s principles to expouse their own political views.
Sort of like what Jesse and Al do on a near-daily basis, but not for personal gain.
Just profit and selling papers…

Just as he stood with refuse workers in Memphis in the last days before an assassin’s bullet struck him down, King would championed the dispossessed evacuees of Hurricane Katrina, potent symbols of a race-based economic underclass that persists as a legacy of slavery and discrimination. The New Orleans nightmare that Katrina exposed indicates that the vision King enunciated in his “I Have a Dream” speech is not yet realized.

Yeah, that’s also in the print edition.
You know, I have a dream that King would championed grammar lessons for newspaper editors.

Netflix now has operations in Orlando – just an hour away from me – and, while I would expect that would mean faster turn around from mailing a movie to get a next one, what’s happening seems to be breaking the laws of physics and government run monopolies.
Now, when I put a Netflix movie in my mailbox to mail back, the very next morning I get an e-mail “We’ve received your movie!” I’m then staring at the e-mail exclaiming, “No! First class mail does not work that quickly! You’re spying on my mailbox!”
I don’t care if I’m mailing something to my next door neighbor; U.S. mail does not move that fast. Now I’m left scrambling to update my queue to make sure the next movie being sent is one I actually want and not some movie I added because I felt I should see it.
So, now it takes only 48 hours from the time the mail carrier gets a returned Netflix movie until I receive the next one. Also, we have a trial membership to Amazon prime where 2nd day shipping is automatic with no extra cost. That means anything I order often gets to me in less than 48 hours.
I can’t really imagine faster service of delivering physical goods until we have transporters.

Okay, I give up; who’s Shadegg? Everyone in the blogosphere is talking about him, but I just assumed he was some rapper.

So I didn’t need to slow down when passing through the school zone on my way to work! Hooray!
If this day is supposed to celebrate someone who gave his life for civil rights, shouldn’t we like do something related to that? SarahK is helping out a transitional home for homeless women in a largely black neighborhood, but that’s more charity than civil rights… plus that was just conincidental that was today.
So those of you – especially those of you with the day off – how should we honor Martin Luther King’s memory today by moving towards a color blind society?
And no just jabbing everyone’s eyes out; that’s the easy way.

So, how about that 24?

UPDATE: SarahK has a nice point by point analysis of the first two Jack Bauer Power Hours this season (huge spoilers if you Tivoed it and haven’t seen it yet; oh, and if you’re on the East Coast and Tivoed it, you’ll be missing the last act of the second hour because of a football postgame show).