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Michael Moore: What went down won’t go up!
The director of the documentaries “Roger and Me” and “Bowling for Columbine” has a few things to say about the symbolism of escalators: When the escalator at the United Nations came to a wrenching and sudden stop this past Tuesday as soon as Trump stepped on it, I would like to believe that future historians…
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What the hell is the CJ doing?
This is a headline appearing on the home page of the Courier Journal today: Biden openly tried to silence speech. Trump shouldn’t do the same. So, you click on the link and see a story consisting of 25 paragraphs talking about censorship by the Trump administration. The very last paragraph of the story says this:…
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Our kids are dumber. Is it that hard to see why?
Some troubling news on the education front, from the Kentucky Lantern: Just days after federal data revealed average reading, math and science scores dropped among certain grades since before the coronavirus pandemic, a U.S. Senate panel on Thursday picked apart the root causes and methods for students’ academic improvement. The hearing in the Senate Committee…
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The most annoying headline of the week
An Al Cross column in the Kentucky Lantern has this headline: We Need Calm Compelling Voices from the Middle. And it contained this pablum: I got a surprise phone call last week from the other side of the world, where an American expatriate was worried about the future of his country in the wake of…
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Cowardice vs. bravery
The Coward of the Month Award goes to our local congressman. From the CJ: The only Kentucky Democrat in U.S. Congress was among the party’s contingent who voted in favor of a resolution aimed at “honoring the life and legacy” of controversial conservative activist Charlie Kirk, who was shot and killed Sept. 10 at a public…
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Andy was on ‘Late Night’ recently
In case you missed it, here’s what he said: Obviously, this was an attempt to get national exposure for a presidential bid, but we still think he should run for Mitch McConnell’s Senate seat.
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The image speaks for itself
Colbert and Kimmel are cancelled because con men, liars and criminals now run the country. And the blame originates with Rupert Murdoch and Fox News, who have done more damage to this country than anyone else.
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Can our media please deal with reality instead of hype?
This from the CJ: Members of the College Republicans at University of Louisville invited students, alumni and members of the Louisville community to participate in a candlelight vigil Sept. 15 honoring Charlie Kirk. A large crowd responded, gathering in the grass in front of Grawemeyer Hall by the university’s statue of “The Thinker,” with many…
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A pet peeve on grammar, brought to you by Skynet
I’m sure this story is important to a lot of people in the horse industry, but there’s one thing that really annoys me about it. From the CJ (of course): A federal horse racing agency alleged it received falsified test results related to a potential banned substance from a University of Kentucky lab. That was…
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The CJ is moving out of its building
When I worked at the Courier Journal in the 1980s, it had hundreds of reporters, a large advertising and circulation staff and printers who would run off thousands of newspapers every day for both the CJ and the Louisville Times, all from the corner of Sixth and Broadway. That’s all over now. From Louisville Business…
