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  • The Strange Day When Bugs Bunny Saved the Life of Mel Blanc

    08/19/2020 12:31:01 PM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 47 replies
    Open Culture ^ | May 6th, 2013 | Kate Rix
    Radio Lab, broadcast over WNYC, recently aired a piece about Blanc ...featuring an interview with his son Noel Blanc, who is also a voice actor. Noel Blanc tells the story of a terrible car accident that badly injured his father in 1961 as he was driving home along Sunset Boulevard from a job in San Francisco. Mel Blanc, driving an Aston Martin, collided with another car on Dead Man's Curve. Blanc was almost killed and slipped into a coma. Blanc's son and wife spent two weeks at his bedside trying to revive him, but got no response. One day, about...
  • Mark Steyn: Weiner helping junk the country

    06/03/2011 5:29:18 PM PDT · by passionfruit · 5 replies
    Orange County Register ^ | June 3, 2011 | Mark Steyn
    After the tumult of the First World War, noted Winston Churchill, only the intractability of the Irish Question had emerged unscathed: "Great Empires have been overturned. The whole map of Europe has been changed," he told the House of Commons. "But as the deluge subsides and the waters fall short, we see the dreary steeples of Fermanagh and Tyrone emerging once again." Article Tab : Lisa Benson / Washington Post Writers Group Lisa Benson / Washington Post Writers Group MORE PHOTOS » ADVERTISEMENT More from National Columnists Charles Krauthammer: Debt-ceiling sky not falling Bonnie Erbe: Are Christians giving up opposing...
  • Chris Matthews Designates Obama as a Kennedy: 'Barack Is Now the Last Brother'

    08/26/2009 5:19:07 PM PDT · by Cecilia Trent · 31 replies · 967+ views
    Media Research Center ^ | 08/26/09 | Tim Graham
    MSNBC host Chris Matthews appeared three times on Wednesday’s Today show to lionize Sen. Ted Kennedy, and twice he promoted Barack Obama as the "last brother" of the Kennedy political dynasty. He tried to clarify a little in his appearance in the 10am hour: "I don’t mean that in an ethnic sense or a black sense. I mean a brother of the Kennedy tradition. And I think he’s the new brother, not that last brother."
  • Official: MSNBC pundit may seek Pa. Senate seat

    11/29/2008 3:37:43 PM PST · by Nick Thimmesch · 24 replies · 791+ views
    AP ^ | 11-29-08
    HARRISBURG, Pa. -- MSNBC pundit Chris Matthews may be considering a run for U.S. Senate in 2010, a Pennsylvania Democratic party leader says. The Patriot-News of Harrisburg reported that Matthews met with state party leaders this past week in Washington to discuss a possible bid to unseat Republican Sen. Arlen Specter.
  • "Tweety Bird," "Baboon" help fuel protests (and the "BoogeyMan" too)

    05/01/2006 6:58:18 PM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 4 replies · 402+ views
    Reuters on Yahoo ^ | 5/1/06 | Arthur Spiegelman
    LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Normally they chatter, joke and play music with a driving beat but on Monday "Tweety Bird" and "The Baboon" helped fill the streets of Los Angeles with hundreds of thousands of immigrants demanding to become citizens. The Spanish language radio personalities of southern California and many other regions have been the de facto leaders of a Latino call to protest on immigrant rights. And their listeners -- in the United States both legally and illegally -- have been paying close heed as they drive from job to job, a group united by their car radios. "Latino...
  • Novell Layoffs Cast A Cloud Over Big-Business Linux

    11/08/2005 5:21:55 AM PST · by Golden Eagle · 89 replies · 1,253+ views
    Yahoo News ^ | November 7 | Larry Greenemeier
    For big companies that want to use the Linux operating system and get business-level support, there are only two main options: Red Hat Inc. and Novell. And one of those looked shaky last week. After two years of refocusing, reinvention, and restructuring, Novell is reducing its staff by 10% to save money and suggesting that a change in CEO may be on the horizon. It's all part of trying to deliver on the growth promised when the company staked its future on open-source software in 2003. Novell's profits were up substantially between fiscal 2003 and 2004. But profits have slipped...