The tea party that happened, not the one they told you about
The tax day tea party at Augusta Expoland in Fishersville turned into conspiracyfest lowlighted by a rambling speech about black helicopters and unmanned drones used by the federal government to take down the Twin Towers on 9/11 and additional such nonsense. Read more
Raining cats and dogs
A dog wearing a top hat, a cat wearing a pulled-back veil and holding a bouquet. The dog saying, “Then we said, ‘What the heck … if gays in Vermont can get married, why can’t we?’” And then the kicker – when the News Leader’s Jim McCloskey is pressed on what he was trying to say in the April 8 editorial cartoon, he offered up that “(s)ome might say that two members of the same sex getting married is as unnatural as dogs and cats getting together.” Read more
Half-Truths and No-Truths
Saxman reading Drudge
It’s in a video produced by the Capital News Service at Virginia Commonwealth University showing state legislators from both sides of the aisle goofing off on the Internet during the 2009 General Assembly session.
See the video for yourself below. Read more
An explanation for cuts at the Leader?
A story in today’s Wall Street Journal on the sudden and unexpected retirement of USA Today president and publisher Craig Moon had an interesting nugget about how the decline in travel has been impacting circulation at the flagship newspaper in the Gannett chain.
Moon told the Journal that USA Today has lost about 100,000 papers off its circulation total due to a reduction in the number of papers distributed through partnerships with national hotel chains. Those partnerships account for more than half of USA Today’s 2.3 million-paper circulation. Read more
The Rumor Mill Says …
- That Tracy Pyles is going to run for the House of Delegates.
- That folks are already making moves regarding the 2010 elections in Waynesboro.
- That Bob Goodlatte might be in trouble in 2010.
- That there is more bad news in the offing at the News Leader. Read more
Staunton police still searching for High’s handgun
They’re still looking for the murder weapon.
The .25-caliber handgun thought to be the weapon used in the 1967 murders of two High’s Ice Cream employees has tested negative, the Staunton Police Department announced in a press release Tuesday morning.
The gun had been handed over to police by News Leader employee Kathy Myers, who said it had been given to her late husband by detective Davie Bocock, who was leading the investigation into the murders of Carolyn Perry, 20, and her sister-in-law, Connie Hevener, 19, the night of April 11, 1967. Read more
The Rumor Mill Says …
Posted by afp on April 2, 2009 · 10 Comments
- That Cory Alexander is going back to the UVa. bench.
- That a local paper is going online-only. Read more
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