November 19, 2009 – 5:04 pm
Last week’s LEO cover story sparked something of a controversy, wherein preservationist group River Fields allegedly stole a bunch of copies of the notorious article-containing issue so that people wouldn’t read it. (Be sure to check out River Field’s full page ad in this week’s edition, if you’re into laughing at silly things) Here’s a [...]
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 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 [...]
October 29, 2009 – 3:06 pm
Louisville Metro Animal Services’ main shelter is tucked away from its entrance on multi-lane Manslick Road; an unassuming collection of structures hidden behind a curvy, almost-bucolic avenue that does little to prepare the prospective animal adopter for the deplorable conditions found within. Last week, a friend and I ventured here posing as such prospective adopters to witness, firsthand, the [...]
October 27, 2009 – 5:51 pm
Mayor Jerry Abramson held a press conference earlier this afternoon to make official the resignation of now-ex-Louisville Metro Animal Services director Gilles Meloche, offering the embattled doctor’s head on a silver platter to attendant news media and essentially telling them “That’s it, that’s all there is for dinner,” and pledging full support behind the services’ [...]
October 23, 2009 – 9:54 pm
Last Wednesday, during what should have been a routine Government Accountability and Oversight Committee hearing at City Hall, the latest chapter in the convoluted saga(s) emanating from Louisville Metro Animal Services unfolded in such spectacular fashion that the sound of collective-eyebrow raising could be heard from blocks away. When it was over, television crews were still [...]
September 21, 2009 – 1:41 pm
If only advocates for a single-payer system had the balls, gumption and tactless guile of a major private health insurance company when it comes to getting Max Baucus’ full attention…
WASHINGTON— The government is investigating Louisville-based Humana for allegedly trying to scare seniors with a mailer warning they could lose important benefits under health care legislation [...]
August 18, 2009 – 5:54 pm
When I traveled to Washington, D.C., to witness the inauguration of Barack Obama as Decider-in-Chief, the feelings of possibility and change were palpable. They coursed through the National Mall, providing for the mammoth crowd a kind of insulation against January’s bitter cold and, perhaps, against a belief that this country might very well be fucked [...]
Screw health care reform: How will Nobama keep the Black Panther and the Klansman from killing each other? Will they use beer cozies? Post-consumer, biodegradable cups? What about frosted mugs? Inquiring minds want to know!
As if the dying newspaper industry needed to remind the public of its increasing obsolescence in legitimate civic discourse/practicability, here’s crusty old Bill Moyers doing his journalism-thing and exposing The Washington Post as the gang of liars and second-rate hacks they become under the light of a full moon:
… Katharine Weymouth, the publisher of The [...]
