Day: March 24, 2006

I had one just like this.

Eating their own – Eleanor Clift on the Democrats’ dilemma.

Via the WaPo:

In the past 24 hours, we learned of allegations that Ben Domenech plagiarized material that appeared under his byline in various publications prior to washingtonpost.com contracting with him to write a blog that launched Tuesday.

An investigation into these allegations was ongoing, and in the interim, Domenech has resigned, effective immediately.

So much for Ben’s 15 minutes.

MORE: Ugh, this is a little hard to defend.

STILL MORE: Jeff Jarvis has it right.

Abdul Rahman, an Afghan man threatened with execution because he converted from Islam to Christianity is expected “to be released in the coming days,” an official says.

That’s a phrase you won’t hear in Chattanooga, especially while 911 operators are taking their potty breaks.

Bad photos and petty comments over at Wonkette.

Cool, in a geeky sorta way.

Mary Winkler, wife of slain minister Matthew Winkler, has confessed to killing him, police in Selmer, Tennessee, say.

The wife of a minister found dead in the church parsonage has confessed to shooting him and fleeing to Alabama, where she was found the following night with their three young daughters, authorities said Friday.

Mary Winkler told investigators she shot her husband on Wednesday, Selmer Police investigator Roger Rickman said.

Matthew Winkler, the 31-year-old minister at Selmer’s Church of Christ, was found dead Wednesday night in a bedroom of the parsonage after church members went looking for him for the evening service.

Mary Winkler’s father, reached in her hometown of Knoxville, Tenn., declined to comment Friday.

“I don’t have anything to say. I appreciate your interest. I just have nothing to say right now,” Clark Freeman told The Associated Press.

According to the cops, the kids didn’t witness the murder and (at the time of Winkler’s arrest) had no idea their father was dead.

If you haven’t read Charles Krauthammer yet today, go do it.

Walter Cronkite is upset because network news programs do public interest stories. He suggests that news producers dump the gardening stories, go with the “really important” news and dump the commercials. That would pose a problem of course, since it’s the commercials that pay for the shows. I can’t fault Walter and his reminiscing the good ‘ol days of TV News like they used to do back in, well, 1960, when news anchors made (relatively) normal size salaries. They just read news back then. Today, they worry about makeup, viewing angle, and maximum on-camera time.  Oh, and their multi-million dollar per-month penthouse in Manhattan, their house in the Hamptons, their cottage on Martha’s Vineyard, and the cocktail parties.