This photo shows every element of the modern American political process: Mike Huckabee, Chuck Norris, bass guitar. Giuliani’s brilliant new angle: troop surge for Afganistan. Can’t a Malaysian Health Minister have a mistress and make sex tapes in peace? It’s really going to be Huckabee, in’t it. Oh God, why hast thou foresaken us? Clinton […]
Stolen from Matt: Rhode Island hip-hop artist Chachi Carvalho will be performing live on BET’s 106 & Park this Wednesday at 6:00pm. Watch and vote!! Chachi was recently voted one of the “Top 51 MYSPACE RAPPERS” of 2007 by VIBE MAGAZINE. You can regularly check him out emceeing the open mic sessions on Monday nights
I’m a nostalgia fiend, and would love to be the one to put together this month-by-month recap. I guess that’s incentive to not sell the site out to Gothamist for at least a year. This is Providence, so, needless to say, the threshold isn’t the highest. (Nonetheless, somehow our Xmas party failed to make the
Can we just get this year over with already? Edwards: Obama too “Nice” to be President. Well, that sure is the pot calling the kettle…uh, abort joke! Abort joke! (NYT) Romney’s numbers surging ahead of Iowa caucus as crazy white folk are slowly coming around to his style of thinking. (HuffPo) Mrs. Huckabee acknowledges her
So you can be pretty confident it ain’t great news: Dear library advocates, As we move toward a new year, PPL is moving toward a mass-layoff of all seven branch children’s specialists, which will have disastrous consequences for branch services and programs. Meanwhile, PPL administrators are projecting a nearly $1 million deficit for the next
This is the banner ad off the top of Drudge right now. Swell to have a billion bucks and all, but if the DailyDose were gonna be one of the Chaces, we’d pick “Happy.”
Since everything happening in the world of politics, the war, the election and our government is super-depressing, let’s see what’s going on in the world of celebrity news. This should lighten things up a bit! Amy Winehouse is banned from visiting husband Blake Fielder-Civil in jail after he somehow tested positive for a class-A drug,
Needless to say, “Weird” and “Rhode Island” are synonymous — more great press for the Ocean State: The Rhode Island Department of Health fined Rhode Island Hospital $50,000 in November because three doctors so far this year have performed neurosurgery on the wrong side of the patients’ brains. (Two patients survived.)
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A couple from Swansea apparently won last month’s big-ass powerball jackpot, likely yielding a whole new crop of local “believers” who will squander even more dough than they already do.Lottos suck: They’re super-regressive — far more so than casinos — and while people should be able to gamble, the state shouldn’t actively try to dupe
We shook the internet and these things fell out: The Washington Post takes the Democratic Congress to task, portraying them as “limping” out of the capitol under a cloud of legislative failure and unkept promises. Speaker Pelosi: “Almost everything we’ve done has been historic.” Yes, giving the President over 70 billion dollars after you told
According to the paper of record. We appreciate the good vibes, but isn’t there something more newsworthy than our shingle in this here blogosphere? Isn’t Roger Clemens on the juice? Didn’t a public employee somewhere answer the telephone with insufficient glee about their subservience to the rest of us? Didn’t another twenty-something leave town in
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Landings always freak me out, and this don’t help. It’s probably the Lieutenant Governor’s fault.
Here’s your daily dose of what’s burning up the wires… Huckabee’s campaign hits a snag over that whole letting-rapists-out-of-prison-then-they-go- and-rape-someone-else-and-kill-them thing. That’ll get you every time. (HuffPo) CIA calls bullshit on Bush’s Iran claims, Bush’s response eloquent, as usual. (AP) It’s a fucking flag people… (ABCnews) Huckabee also completely clueless on matters not rape-related (Hotline)
Record number of utility shut-offs in RI this year. Racial profiling still a huge problem in RI Environment America gives us a shiny a Gold Star Be afraid, be very afraid. Of deer. Good guy Bud Cicilline wins Dem primary for rep in Newport