As a result of Onslow County’s recent fame, there’s a ton of out-of-towner media types camped out in front of the Sheriff’s Department. Photo 1 shows the interview tents. Photo 2 shows 5 big ol’ satellite uplink trucks. The interview tents are on the other side. Not shown are the 3 or 4 smaller news-trucks [...]
Dear Jacksonville Daily News: Reminder: Please fix your RSS feeds. Also, send Lindell Kay to public speaking classes. He let the Fox News douche Shepard Smith talk all over him on Studio B today. Your Reader, Thomas. Dear Onslow County Sheriff Ed Brown: Please hire a public information officer. Your poor performance while speaking to [...]
In case you haven’t heard, Jacksonville, NC has been pretty big news lately. It started with the public inquiry into a Marine Special Operations unit’s questionable shooting on civilians in Afghanistan and ended with the murder of Marine Lance Corporal Maria Lauterbach. I haven’t written about either because both of them are examples of serious [...]
Please fix your RSS feeds. They haven’t worked since the site redesign. Love, Thomas Tags: Technorati Tags: Jacksonville Daily News,Mainstream Media
Just been a little busy. How’re you all?
The Caucus is over and the wounded and dead are cleared from the 2008 Presidential battlefields. The winners: Barack Obama and Mike Huckabee. Obama had 38% and Huckabee had 34%. More important than the winners, though, are the number twos and threes. John Edwards was in second with 30% of the vote (over Hillary Clinton’s [...]
The Jacksonville Daily News printed an article last week detailing the tribulations of being a conservatively minded writer in Eastern North Carolina. Daily News employee Mike McHugh said he began to feel very annoyed and a little bit paranoid when unsolicited magazine subscriptions, video tapes, travel guides and, most importantly, bills began to arrive in [...]
Yes, that Hooters. I had lunch today at the local Jacksonville, NC Hooters restaurant. It wasn’t my first time in the Hooters, but it was the first time I’ve been there to eat. Let’s clear something up first, though. Yes, Hooters has attractive women in skimpy clothing that serve men. Is it demeaning? I don’t [...]
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