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Gannett Layoffs Strike Courier-Journal (UPDATED)

June 21, 2011 – 4:06 pm

UPDATED: Sources tell LEO that the number of layoffs at the Courier-Journal is now totaling 50, including 24 editorial positions. Further, the Velocity weekly as you know it will cease to be, and will be replaced by a smaller version folded in with the Courier itself, to be published on a day of the week [...]

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ORBP Gear-grinding in Frankfort’s Taj Mahal

August 5, 2010 – 2:30 pm

Of the many examples of fine architecture in historic downtown Frankfort, the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet building sticks out like a sore thumb designed by a drunken, potentially syphilitic Frank Gehry. At 200 Mero Street rises a hideous postmodern jumble of boxy glass edges and incongruous surfaces, and judging from a haphazard Google Maps analysis, the [...]

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City, Businesses: To Hell With Easter

March 23, 2010 – 4:21 pm

What is the state of our besieged family values when we cannot even properly fund an Easter egg hunt in this town? From The Courier-Journal (WARNING: If you are 7 years-old/Glenn Beck, stop reading this now): For more than two decades, children have searched for Easter eggs at E.P. “Tom” Sawyer State Park, but not [...]

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Shitting In The Wind

February 25, 2010 – 6:57 pm

That’s basically the only metaphor I could think of while watching today’s mega-hyped health care summit: You’re walking down the street, somebody yells at you from their window, “Hey, look at this!” and then proceeds to stick their ass into the frame and, from a decent height, defecate onto the sidewalk below. You can’t deny that the [...]

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Unemployment: The Movie

February 23, 2010 – 2:55 pm

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and Lions Gate Films have just released the latest teaser trailer for their upcoming “Unemployment: The Movie” starring Paul Giamatti and Mos Def, each of whom play laid off workers who slowly starve to death in the course of the film’s 586 minutes. According to TMZ, rumor has it [...]

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Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell & Please Try Not To Rape

January 26, 2010 – 4:37 pm

Today, it seems, is just not a good day to be a woman in ‘Merica. Adding to the sadness pile is this latest report, which reveals that approximately one-third of active duty female soldiers in the United States armed forces have been raped while in the service. Furthermore, upwards of 71 percent report being sexually [...]

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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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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: 49th Happiest State in Union

November 11, 2009 – 6:52 pm

Oh Jesus: it’s really come down to this, hasn’t it? I mean, it’s one thing to be named the most perverted city in the country, quite another to be labeled as one of the dumbest, too… but telling us that we are among the saddest bastards in this nation? Pass the shotgun shells, please, and [...]

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Obama on Ft. Hood, War, Peace & Sacrifice

November 10, 2009 – 4:47 pm

On the eve of Veteran’s Day — which for most of us means just another day that banks are closed and the mail gets fucked up — President Obama has prepared a speech of the kind pundits dub “very presidential,” which means the themes are lofty, universal and (hopefully) inspiring. But since he is the president, it [...]

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