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Equality-minded Highlands church makes waves on Internet

April 20, 2011 – 11:12 am

The story of Douglas Boulevard Disciples of Christ Church’s decision to promote marriage equality is blowing up on the Internet. An article by the Courier-Journal’s Peter Smith detailing the church’s decision to stop issuing marriage licenses so long as same-sex couples cannot marry has made the front page of the LOLcat-friendly website Reddit, so it appears Kentucky is [...]

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What’s up with Todd Lally’s website?

January 24, 2011 – 1:36 pm

Nearly two months after an election that retained incumbent Democrat John Yarmuth as Louisville’s 3rd District representative, the campaign of Yarmuth’s failed GOP challenger, UPS pilot Todd Lally, has issued a death rattle via Facebook and Twitter, and in so doing revealed a campaign website that has been taken over by what appears to be [...]

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What We Pay For

October 1, 2010 – 6:10 pm

“This is your federal budget,” the website What We Pay For reveals, and in all its numerical glory. All you gotta do is plug in how much you make each year, and the site’s nifty cost calculator can break down how much of your annual pittance goes toward things like national “defense,” Medicare and other [...]

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Redding Resurrected!

July 14, 2010 – 1:04 pm

Louisville’s phoenix of the Internet, Rick Redding, has got himself a new gig — writing for the Internet! No, seriously, WLKY has thrown some money together in an effort to resurrect the local media scribe, whose news-gathering LouisvilleMojo.com had its plug pulled in April of this year (a shame: it had some great writers). This [...]

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Looking Back… To The Future!

February 16, 2010 – 1:15 pm

Few things are better than sweeps season. During this special time, the programming created by our local television news teams is at once magical, fascinating and largely idiotic. Ever the trend-breaker, WHAS11 offered this thought-provoking segment: Louisville, Ky. (WHAS11) – The weather forecast is hard enough to predict so imagine trying to predict the future. [...]

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A FatLip Meta-Moment

February 5, 2010 – 2:45 pm

We love the internet, but sometimes Google’s AdSense leaves me scratching my head: I mean, I love Sarah Palin and all, but one picture of her face per page should suffice.

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Louisville #1 In Jergens Consumption

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 [...]

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Galbraith Campaign Lights Up Facebook

October 23, 2009 – 1:58 pm

Yesterday in Frankfort, independent gubernatorial candidate Gatewood Galbraith made a funny: [Galbraith] told members of the United Mine Workers of America that people suggested 30 years ago that he was 30 years ahead of his time, then drew laughs when he added: “Here we are.” [AP, via WLKY] Haw! Sources also tell us that the tireless libertarian [...]

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Lies My Twitter-Box Told Me

August 27, 2009 – 2:21 pm

As Americans, we’re the most blogginist, most tweetinist varmints to ever grace this dying planet; inheritors of the Industrial, Green and technological revolutions that have largely passed by the majority of the world’s poor, non-tweeting population, we’ve reaped the benefits of “progress” such that the sheer amount of information at our fingertips would make us [...]

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Health Care Fun Facts!

August 11, 2009 – 8:55 pm

Well, the facts are not so such “fun” as they are “factual,” which would just wind up sounding silly and redundant, but then: That’s your health care system, dummy! Courtesy of American President Barack Obama’s legions of Mac-savvy hope-fiends comes Reality Check, a White House website designed to combat the lies, distortions and McConnellisms that [...]

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