November 5, 2009 – 6:36 pm
Ahh, November sweeps: That salacious, pre-Christmas season when major networks unleash their most sensational “news” stories to grab the attention of ‘Merica’s lowest common denominators so bigger advertising dividends will be paid. In the case of WLKY, we’ve got internet porn searches.
Specifically, Louisville is the de facto capital of naughty internet searches, meaning that we spend more [...]
November 5, 2009 – 6:25 pm
Kentucky may become the new home of a Harley-Davidson manufacturing plant. According to The Courier-Journal, the flailing chopper-maker is considering relocating a 2,500 employee Pennsylvania facility to the greener, cheaper pastures of the Commonwealth.
Like many manufacturers, Harley-Davidson is consolidating in the wake of declining sales and is exploring how to cut costs with its largest [...]
November 4, 2009 – 5:12 pm
A little over a week ago, the University of Kentucky and Alliance Coal announced plans to name a new men’s basketball dormitory after a dirty, planet- and culture-killing fossil fuel known as “coal,” sparking campus protests that have elicited virtually no response from the university’s board of trustees and its figurehead, UK President Lee Todd, despite [...]
November 4, 2009 – 4:37 pm
Yup yup: The 21c museum and boutique hotel — recently named the best hotel in these United States — will soon have a sister operation in downtown Cincinnati. From Business First:
The husband and wife team of Laura Lee Brown and Steve Wilson will open the second 21c hotel in the former Metropole Hotel… [and] will feature [...]
November 3, 2009 – 5:18 pm
The numbers on Congress’ health care reform bill are in, and I can honestly say I’m shocked — in a good way. In what may be the first time in recent memory that Congress hasn’t totally screwed the pooch on a Big Issue, it appears as though Obama’s push to reform our dysfunctional health care [...]
November 3, 2009 – 4:27 pm
Barrack Obama’s communist National Park Service has planted a tree to commemorate the premier’s reign of terror. According to the Arbor Day website, the tree — a littleleaf linden — does not have a fondness for freedom or hotdogs, and prefers moist alkaline soil and sunlight instead.
If you paid attention, you would have learned that the Olmstead [...]
November 3, 2009 – 3:56 pm
In what amounts to a sound argument for taking better care of our service economy’s indentured servants, The New York Times reports that alarming numbers of H1N1-infected wage slaves are reporting to work sick because, well, they can’t really afford to miss a day’s pay in this economy.
When Latisha Carter caught H1N1 from her 6-year-old [...]
November 3, 2009 – 1:46 pm
So here we have Louisiana Senator David Vitter being asked by a consituent about Vitter’s “no” vote on an anti-rape clause in a defense appropriations bill that passed, 68-30, last month. The clause/rider — the first authored by Frosh Senator Al “I Can’t Believe I’m A Senator” Franken — would prohibit funding to military contractors [...]
November 3, 2009 – 1:07 pm
Greening the fat: University of Louisville eggheads are converting used cafeteria ‘tater grease into fuel for a campus shuttle bus. Speed School students are currently using a 5-percent grease/biodiesel blend, but are hopeful that in the future, the shuttle bus will include a mobile-deepfryer, thus creating the world’s first (and most delicious) perpetual motion machine.
Yet [...]
November 3, 2009 – 10:06 am
More news coming out of Louisville Metro Animal Services’ Manslick Road shelter: Those non-existent heaters we told you about last week were finally replaced after volunteers complained about the situation, which is a good thing.
Most troubling, however, is the following command performance given by MAS spokesperson Jackie Gulbe, whom appears to be either lying or completely unaware of [...]
