Dirty Sanchez: After calling Jon Stewart a bigot and ranting about the Jews that control cable television, Rick Sanchez is unceremoniously fired from CNN.
Is There a Hallmark Card for ‘Sorry I Gave You Syphilis’?: The US apologized this week for an experimental program in the 1940’s that infected nearly 700 Guatemalan prisoners and mental patients with syphilis for medical research. In their apology Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Secretary of Health and Human Serivices Kathleen Sebelius admitted that there is no statute of limitations on the violation of human rights in medical research.
Maybe Someone Just Doesn’t Like Hamburgers: A Manette resident told police he was offended by the “sexual nature” of a defaced Norm Dicks campaign poster.
Medication Errors at Children’s Hospital: After two children died within days of each other, attention is called to the widely underreported problem of prescription drug errors in hospitals. Both of the deaths are thought to be linked to an error in the administration of prescriptions.
Peeping Professor Caught in the Act: A drama department professor at Green River Community College was caught trying to videotape a student while she was changing her clothes. In a story for the school newspaper, a former student called the professor “creeptastic.”
Druids Granted Equal Rights in Britain: Brits can now make tax deductible contributions to the “Druid Network.” No word yet from bratty Druish Princesses.
Drone Attacks Kill 18 in Pakistan: Tension continues to mount as NATO forces fight the Taliban in Pakistan.
Bank of America Puts Freeze on Foreclosure Proceedings: The country’s largest mortgage lender has decided to halt all foreclosures while it reviews documents for errors.
Somebody Call Guinness: Iraq passed the Netherlands on Friday for longest stretch without a government, after 208 days of negotiations have failed to produce a ruling coalition.
And finally, we honor the illustrious career of Rick Sanchez with this clip of his ace reporting:
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High five for the Spaceballs shout out.
That “No Dicks” sign can’t hold a candle to the one I saw that had been modified to say “eNORMous DICK”
In other news, television producer/writer Stephen J. Cannell (“Greatest American Hero,” “The A-Team,” “Baretta,” “The Rockford Files”) died yesterday at 69. Complications of melanoma.
i think we are absolutely despicable for doing that experiment on the guatemalans. but it is also important info that the guatemalan govt gave us permission to do it.
that still might not mean much, bc maybe we strong-armed them into giving us permission, but it is still important. what i’ve read so far has suggested that the guatemalan gvt. knew we were infecting people.
anyway. i’m not a fan of hitler comparisons (as in, the US = Hitler). but this qualifies.
Nameless unpaid intern, you’re my favorite news intern in a while.
5280, thanks for the news of Cannell. (As an aside, with regulars switching their goddam avatars for fall I guess, I do love what you’ve done with yourself there.)
Cannell’s TV work is the history of crushes I developed as a small boy watching syndicated reruns of his better shows:
Baretta’s Robert Blake taught me to love the tough-talking city guy,
Jim Rockford taught me to love a man who stays low to the ground laughing at the pretension of the world,
And by casting young Ken Wahl in Wiseguy, he gave me my first taste of genuine eye candy – Wahl’s fight/love scenes with Kevin Spacey were sooo hot.
And there’s my TMI comment of the day.
haha Sanchez.
@ 6
Perry King’s pornstache and washboard abs on Riptide helped me realize that I liked the fellas.
Plus it was a detective show about best friends who lived on a boat and flew around in a helicopter solving crimes, which was the most awesome life a ten year-old boy could dream of.
@8, Riptide had too many bikinis and robots and yuk-yuk jokes for me, but Joe Penny suuure had some lips on him.
Regarding the “world record” for time without a government: I must not be understanding the criteria being employed here. The national government in Somalia fell in 1991, and didn’t have anything remotely resembling a replacement until 2004 (and even that’s considered a “transitional” government). Anyone smarter than me care to enlighten?
Well if you are a reporter and you rant on TV about Jews controlling the media, it follows that you will get fired by the Jews who control the media.
And that, @11, pretty much sums it up.
“Is There a Hallmark Card for ‘Sorry I Gave You Syphilis’?”
fuck yeah.
homos send more of them than birthday cards….
if there isnt a hallmark card for that, you can probably find something else appropriate at this card site: http://youstupidbitch.com/