Legal Mystenigmary

Somebody please send Fox"News" a dictionary...

Not that I usually waste my time paying attention to that surefire way to spike your blood pressure otherwise known as Fox News, but my interest was piqued today when my Google Newsreader thingy spit up a Fox headline on a new study regarding drinking caffeine during pregnancy that the New York Times had also just reported on today. Having already read the article in the NYT (that bastion of the "liberal conspiracy"!) I was curious to see what kind of coverage the "fair and balanced" Fox News had given it. Shockingly, the famously "unbiased" news outlet not only reported the study's finding as unqualified "fact," but also failed to use the qualifiers vitally important to the reporting of ANY study, failed to point out any of the possible flaws in the sampling, and most significantly, failed to including ANY commentary or reactions giving that essential "other side" to the issue.

Are we sure they actually know what "balanced" and "unbiased" means? 'cause I don't think so.

(For those who want to see for themselves: the Fox story is here and the NYT story is here [free registration required or go to bugmenot.com]).

brrrRRR!

oh my GOD, it's COLD! so cold that little pieces of my hair froze in the three minutes it took me this morning to run out to my car and put change in the parking meter so the meter-bitch would not write me YET ANOTHER ticket (do you know I have 57 so far? in only 2 1/2 years. that must be some kind of record.). So cold that I stopped being able to breathe out of my nose on my run this morning and (ew) actually have to resort to blowing it on my sleeve? (I honestly don't think that, even if I wash it thirty times, I could ever bring myself to wear that shirt again). So cold that I actually am wearing my one and only pantsuit today ... and I NEVER EVER EVER wear pantsuits, on account of the fact that I look like Charlie Chaplin in pantsuits. really, just in pants in general.  I mean, congratulations to the suffragettes in the pantaloons on the bicycles and good work on getting me the right to wear them -- but I HATE them. (the pants. not the suffragettes. OOh, especially not Mrs. Banks from "Mary Poppins" - she's so awesome in her little lilac suit singing about how her daughter's daughter's will adore her -- you're right, Mrs. Banks, I DO adore you!)