MIERS DONE GONE LIKE A TURKEY THROUGH THE CORN
And I can’t improve on Wonkette...
The radical right-wing sleestaks that stalk this land hopped up on quasi-Christian kookdom and stronger than ever, have beaten the President into supine submission on Miers and are slavering at the mouth for satisfaction. (But what the fuck is a sleestak?)
http://www.wonkette.com/

NEW TIMES, CLEAR CHANNEL, STARBUCKS
Most of you may not care, others may not know what the hell it’s all about, but this whole New Times takeover and the demise of the Village Voice as we’ve known it is kinda personal. And, if that ain’t enough, any two of the above might provide a reason. Also it’s bringing out the worst in some of my fellow travellers. (Call it Hitchens syndrome, or maybe just chickenshit.) Doc40 has been getting beaucoup hits from an NT server, and also accusations of how I'm afraid of corporate takeover. On the latter matter, quite the reverse, mes braves. I think, in a weirdass way we (the good guys) are gonna win this one. Donnell Alexander goes deep in the current LA CityBeat...
http://lacitybeat.com/article.php?id=2812&IssueNum=125

BEING SUCH A DAMNED SNOB, I RARELY NOTICE LA ALTERNATIVE PRESS
But they also get their licks in...
With this likely merger, the alternative press in this country will suffer the same kind of corporate consolidation that other media outlets have gone through. Like the daily newspaper chain model that eliminated competition in cities decades ago, this will establish a new paradigm of monopoly, killing the idea of competing editorial voices.
As we’ve seen in places like San Francisco, where the venerable Bay Guardian has been under-attack by the two New Times chain papers in the region, New Times doesn’t like to compete. They like to undermine and destroy. New Times has been negotiating deals with Clear Channel, owner of radio stations and concert venues (nice bedfellows, huh?) to be the only advertising vehicle for Clear Channel properties, blocking other papers from ad dollars.
And Clear Channel is a perfect example of what happens when previously independent media come under one parent company. But where everyone was openly by angered the loss of music diversification, and where Clear Channel was so easily targeted as the enemy all things artistic, somehow the same behavior in the world of alt. newsweeklies has been met with casual shoulder shrugs and a general sense ambivalence.
And now, for the moment, I think I'm done on this topic...

TIS THE SEASON
Frederica, Del. (from Breibart)
The apparent suicide of a woman found hanging from a tree went unreported for hours because passers-by thought the body was a Halloween decoration, authorities said. The 42-year-old woman used rope to hang herself across the street from some homes on a moderately busy road late Tuesday or early Wednesday, state police said. The body, suspended about 15 feet above the ground, could be easily seen from passing vehicles. State police spokesman Cpl. Jeff Oldham and neighbors said people noticed the body at breakfast time Wednesday but dismissed it as a holiday prank. Authorities were called to the scene more than three hours later. "They thought it was a Halloween decoration," Fay Glanden, wife of Mayor William Glanden, told The (Wilmington) News Journal. "It looked like something somebody would have rigged up," she said.

The secret word is Noose

Indictments today? Yes? Please?