Media Follies.

The L.A. Times has officially retracted its story on the Tupac Shakur killing thanks to its reliance on material now not considered credible.
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Bloggers, especially professionals, waste so much of their time tied to computers, they literally get sick from the stress involved.

I was going to post this article from yesterday, but I was too stressed out to do it.

Blogging is such a time suck; I don't spend as much time doing it as I did when I first started the blog over five years ago. With a job, it's hard. And if you're not paid for doing it, and nobody will bother to donate money for you, it's worse.
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Media Follies.

The L.A. Times admits it screwed up on its story regarding the Tupac Shakur killing:

A Los Angeles Times story about a brutal 1994 attack on rap superstar Tupac Shakur was partially based on documents that appear to have been fabricated, the reporter and editor responsible for the story said Wednesday.

Reporter Chuck Philips and his supervisor, Deputy Managing Editor Marc Duvoisin, issued statements of apology Wednesday afternoon. The statements came after The Times took withering criticism for the Shakur article, which appeared on latimes.com last week and two days later in the paper's Calendar section.

The criticism came first from The Smoking Gun website, which said the newspaper had been the victim of a hoax, and then from subjects of the story, who said they had been defamed.

Undoubtedly there will be some lawsuits coming out of this.

Miscellaneous.

A torn parachute is being examined to see if it belongs to the legendary D.B. Cooper.
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Now we get more propaganda about how terrible Medicare and Social Security are and how we need to privatize both.
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Oh, my God. That child is going to be so screwed up, it won't even be funny:

I am transgender, legally male, and legally married to Nancy. Unlike those in same-sex marriages, domestic partnerships, or civil unions, Nancy and I are afforded the more than 1,100 federal rights of marriage. Sterilization is not a requirement for sex reassignment, so I decided to have chest reconstruction and testosterone therapy but kept my reproductive rights. Wanting to have a biological child is neither a male nor female desire, but a human desire.

Ten years ago, when Nancy and I became a couple, the idea of us having a child was more dream than plan. I always wanted to have children. However, due to severe endometriosis 20 years ago, Nancy had to undergo a hysterectomy and is unable to carry a child. But after the success of our custom screen-printing business and a move from Hawaii to the Pacific Northwest two years ago, the timing finally seemed right. I stopped taking my bimonthly testosterone injections. It had been roughly eight years since I had my last menstrual cycle, so this wasn’t a decision that I took lightly. My body regulated itself after about four months, and I didn’t have to take any exogenous estrogen, progesterone, or fertility drugs to aid my pregnancy.

Not to mention the "man" or "woman" or whatever he/she is is missing a few screws in the head.

Actually this person who claims he's a man is a woman, whether he or she likes it or not. Assuming this story is true at all.

Well, the regular news media are picking it up.
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Given how much teenage girls are brainwashed to hate themselves, it's little wonder more than a few of them are undergoing the knife to have boob jobs so that they look better to guys.
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Is the L.A. Times in deep shit regarding its story on the Tupac Shakur murder?
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Miscellaneous.

Paul McCartney finally gained his freedom.

One thing about him I always liked was he has insisted his children attend public schools (called "state schools" in Britain). He felt it was important his kids were treated no differently than other children.

Video is here.
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Today New York gets a new governor.

Let's hope there are no further scandals.
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Rapper Tupac Shakur was probably right in identifying those who attacked him and left him for dead in 1994, a couple of years before he was murdered.

Edit: Sean Combs, also known as P. Diddy, categorically denies the report.
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Former ABBA drummer Ola Brunkert has died in a freak accident at his home in Spain. He was 61.

Details:

Police believe Brunkert hit his head on a window and shattered the glass which cut him. A post-mortem is taking place.

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The musician was found by a neighbour late on Sunday in a pool of blood.

He had managed to wrap a towel around his neck before leaving the house to summon help before collapsing in the garden.

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A baby suffers from a rare disease, Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome, which causes the body to age far quicker, and children invariably die of it.

It occurs once in 8 million births. Only about 100 cases have been identified in medical history.
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