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Ky. named 4th worst in nation for coal plant health impacts

September 10, 2010 – 11:33 am

The nonprofit Clean Air Task Force released a report today naming the Bluegrass State the fourth worst in the nation for negative health impacts related to pollution emitted from coal burning power plants. The report, dubbed “The Toll from Coal,” found that Kentucky ranks fourth in terms of “deaths attributed to coal plant emissions of [...]

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Bunning opens mouth, words fall out, people faint (Part 451)

July 14, 2010 – 4:32 pm

Terrible human-reptilian hybrid Sen. James “Jim” Bunning has decided to speak about the death of cracker New York Yankees owner and African-American philanthropist George Steinbrenner by saying — egads — that Steinbrenner was wise to die this year because he avoided having to pay an estate tax. Via The Courier-Journal, w/r/t The Hill: “Because he [...]

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BREAKING: Can hot dogs… kill you?

June 8, 2010 – 4:35 pm

In a stunning expose on the dangers of mechanically separated-and-tubed meat products, McClatchy Newspapers ask the question that’s on everyone’s mind: How much will cleaning up BP’s oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico cost? Will Israel be held accountable for its attack of a Gaza-bound aid flotilla? Will Congress actually pass financial reform that [...]

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One-Year Anniversary of Apocalyptic Ice Storm

January 27, 2010 – 12:52 pm

Is it coincidence that today is the one year-anniversary of the Great 2009 Ice Storm as well as President Obama’s first State of the Smoldering Rubble Heap Union? Why, of course it is! For a few moments, let’s hark back… back to a time when the city was crippled and buried under a foot of [...]

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Louisville Loses A Good One

January 15, 2010 – 3:55 pm

Frederick Cressman — pathologist at Audubon Hospital, dedicated Presbyterian and, along with his wife of 38 years, founder of Cressman Center for Visual Arts — passed away on Sunday. From The C-J: [Cressman] died Sunday at Kindred Hospital of pulmonary failure, his wife, Elizabeth Pahk Cressman, said. A $10 million gift from the couple — [...]

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“A Different Kind of War”

December 30, 2009 – 3:58 pm

That’s the name of a new report, written by a team of historians at the US Army’s Combat Studies Institute, which covers the early years (Oct. 2001 – Sept. 2005) of our flailing war in Afghanistan. Clocking in at over 400 pages, the report reveals that aside from knocking the Taliban out of power with [...]

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Left 4 Dead

December 17, 2009 – 3:44 pm

If you’ve been paying an inordinate amount of attention to our Congress’ attempts to ratify meaningful health care reform legislation lo these past several months, a few things should’ve been clear to you from the beginning — chief among them that average Americans simply cannot be trusted to have nice things. We just wouldn’t know [...]

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Kentucky Scores Highest On Cancer List

December 16, 2009 – 3:59 pm

Our Commonwealth has yet another reason to celebrate, so break out the cake and a carton of Pall Malls. According to the Center for Disease Control Kentucky ranks numero uno in cancer rates, besting the likes of Mississippi, West Virginia, Tennessee and Louisiana. The state of Kentucky has the highest age-adjusted death rate for cancer [...]

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Afghanistan? Escalation? Blackwater?

December 1, 2009 – 5:30 pm

Since you will be eagerly watching President Obama’s sales pitch for “Rambo 5: Cave Warriors” tonight, here is something you can do to pass the time: Pour a bottle of grain alcohol into an elevated catheter-type bag and connect it, via plastic tube, to your femoral artery. Within a matter of seconds, things like war and [...]

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Lexington: H1N1 Capital of the Commonwealth

November 10, 2009 – 5:22 pm

Recently, we informed you that WLKY ran a story about how Louisville is the number-one city in these United States for dirtiest internet keyword searches: Because this information is useful. Now we are proud to report that we’ve managed to dodge another auspicious title, this time being the county with the second-most reported swine flu [...]

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