All the News in Fits of Print – 4/29

ALL THE NEWS IN FITS OF PRINTCONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR 100TH EPISODE EDITION
TODAY IN HISTORY: In 1861 on this day, Maryland voted against seceding from the union – a year later on the same day, the Union army took New Orleans. In 1974, President Richard Nixon announced he would release edited transcripts of secretly made White [...]

All the News in Fits of Print – 4/28

ALL THE NEWS IN FITS OF PRINTWHO DOES JAZZERCIZE AT SEVEN IN THE MORNING? EDITION
TODAY IN HISTORY: In 1788, Maryland became the seventh state to ratify the Constitution. Benito Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci were executed in 1945.
TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS: Former Secretary of State James Baker is 79. “To Kill a Mockingbird” author Harper [...]

How to fail at journalism without really trying.

This post originally appeared at Teablogging.net.
On Sunday morning while you all were probably still in bed with your food stamps and your welfare and your goddam hippie granola, your intrepid Teablogging editor posted a link to a story about the arrest of Daniel Knight Hayden who had posted several tweets detailing his intent to incite [...]

All the News in Fits of Print – 4/27

ALL THE NEWS IN FITS OF PRINTFULL TIME EMPLOYMENT WILL PROBABLY HELP THE REGULARITY OF THIS NEWSLETTERSO KEEP YOUR FINGERS CROSSED EDITION
As an aside, thanks everybody for your patience because I have generally failed at “every day” or even “mostly every day.” It is really important to me to get this going into an every [...]

All the News in Fits of Print – 4/20

ALL THE NEWS IN FITS OF PRINTAT LEAST HE’S NOT MAKING OUT WITH PEOPLE IN THE WHITE HOUSE GARDENS EDITION

TODAY IN HISTORY: In 1836, the territory of Wisconsin was established by Congress. In 1902, Scientists Marie and Pierre Curie isolated the radioactive element radium, and in 1939, Billie Holiday recorded the first Civil Rights song [...]

NYC Mayor Bloomberg Supports Gay Marriage

Via Twitter’s BreakingNewsOn wire service.
Building off the gay rights links I included in today’s fits of print — Mayor Bloomberg has just released a statement outlining his support for the marriage equality legislation proposed by Governor Paterson.
In the statement, Bloomberg invokes the suffrage movement and New York City activists’ on-going commitment to equality causes [...]

All the News in Fits of Print – 4/16

ALL THE NEWS IN FITS OF PRINT
TEABAG FATIGUE EDITION
TODAY IN HISTORY: Okay, this is ridiculous, but I love it – today in 1992, the House Ethics Committee released the names of 303 current and former members who had overdrawn their House bank accounts. Omg Mom, GET OFF MY BACK! I’m just waiting til payday. Also [...]

UNFUNNY: Transmisogyny.

Via Questioning Transphobia:
[Calling Coulter "trans" because she calls herself "attractive" and you think she isn't is] Total bullshit. It is easy as hell to avoid. Just don’t do it. Find something else.
And I don’t care how “mannish” she seems to you, just don’t fucking go there. And don’t talk about her being “mannish” as [...]

A Very Mad Tea Party

I attended the Manhattan Tea Party at City Hall tonight with The Daily Angry Liberal- it was, to say the least, a special experience. I only caught the last hour and a half or so – I showed up late due to work – but it was more than enough for me. At least I [...]

All the News in Fits of Print – 4/14

ALL THE NEWS IN FITS OF PRINTTOTALLY OVERSLEPT EDITION
TODAY IN HISTORY: On this day in 1865, Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth while attending a show of “Our American Children” at Ford’s Theater. In 1775, Benjamin Frankln and Benjamin Rush formed the first society for the abolition of slavery and “The Grapes of Wrath” [...]