tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3877845361100520046Tue, 15 Apr 2008 06:04:08 +0000http://www.pointsincase.com/jake/blog.htmCourtBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3877845361100520046.post-7479120737695011179Mon, 07 Apr 2008 22:31:00 +00002008-04-07T17:04:35.401-04:00RotN on the Campaign Trail Peter Benjamin Johnson Democratic Correspondent Peter- Where have you been? We need another piece. You haven't written anything, but I can't help but notice that you keep charging expenses to PIC. I thought it was understood that we can only offer you the bare minimum in terms of funding, and that funding has to be per diem. Simply put, we can't give you more moneyhttp://www.pointsincase.com/jake/2008/04/how-chips-are-falling.htmlJaketag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3877845361100520046.post-6366063706292100801Wed, 06 Feb 2008 22:28:00 +00002008-02-06T20:00:59.968-05:00With the results of Super Tuesday still coming into place around them, we sat our political correspondents Peter Benjamin Johnson and Michael Gladstone in an internet chatroom and made them play nice. These are the parts where they weren't swearing at each other, going to the bathroom, or talking about the cup girls. On McCain: Peter Benjamin Johnson: all this mccain business blew me away http://www.pointsincase.com/jake/2008/02/super-tuesday-im-analysis.htmlJaketag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3877845361100520046.post-8273874691634831333Tue, 29 Jan 2008 20:05:00 +00002008-01-30T08:46:45.282-05:00RotN on the Campaign Trail Peter Benjamin Johnson Democratic Correspondent Super Tuesday is a week away and I'm in Wherethefuck, Missouri, recovering from all the action. I've seen more states in the past two weeks than some proud Americans see in their lifetimes. Twenty-four states are having voting contests on Tuesday -- which, for those of you keeping score at home, is nearly half of the http://www.pointsincase.com/jake/2008/01/super-tuesday.htmlJaketag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3877845361100520046.post-6671117669146675719Tue, 22 Jan 2008 23:03:00 +00002008-01-22T19:19:20.019-05:00RotN on the Campaign Trail Michael Gladstone Republican Correspondent The journalists who hitched their wagons to Mike Huckabee's star are falling fast, down the steps of the Hilton and onto the sticky Orlando streets. They've got laptops, luggage, backpacks, and briefcases, and nearly all of them have cell phones pressed to their ears. "A plane ticket," says a mustachioed man with a press http://www.pointsincase.com/jake/2008/01/in-transit-on-trail-in-south.htmlJaketag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3877845361100520046.post-1545919085859913676Tue, 15 Jan 2008 21:56:00 +00002008-01-17T01:42:53.932-05:00RotN on the Campaign Trail Peter Benjamin Johnson Democratic Correspondent "Nevada?" I say. "What the hell are you doing in Nevada?" "We're here for the primary," says someone who works for someone who works for John Edwards. Maybe she doesn't think her sarcasm will carry through the phone, because she certainly doesn't try to hide it. "Maybe you've heard of it?" "The primary? Of course I've http://www.pointsincase.com/jake/2008/01/surrounded-in-michigan.htmlJaketag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3877845361100520046.post-3552753048596487486Tue, 08 Jan 2008 23:26:00 +00002008-01-08T17:14:34.223-05:00The people of the United States have a love-hate relationship with voting in presidential elections; that is, they love to stay home and not vote and they hate to go out and vote. Among eligible voters in the US, it's rare that more than half will actually participate in the "vote-casting" part of an election. Sure, these disenfranchised citizens may enter the political arena in other ways -- http://www.pointsincase.com/jake/2008/01/rotn-on-campaign-trail-introduction.htmlJaketag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3877845361100520046.post-7796562100982300045Thu, 29 Nov 2007 02:08:00 +00002007-11-28T20:38:40.998-05:00Life is a complicated thing, with more than its fair share of mishaps, extenuating circumstances, and several-weeks-long peyote binges. Due to these many mitigating factors, journalists and the news media can't be expected to deliver the news every day. I mean, this is news, not the Today show. And, honestly, things don't happen a whole lot. I'm looking around my apartment right now and I http://www.pointsincase.com/jake/2007/11/yesterdays-news.htmlJaketag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3877845361100520046.post-580317429398666691Sun, 28 Oct 2007 15:51:00 +00002007-10-28T19:34:19.625-04:00Dutch protesters make bid to save "magic mushrooms" Top Reasons to Protest for the Right to 'Shroom: To Protect Personal Freedom To Celebrate the Expansion of Consciousness and Sensory Experience Because the Magical Gnones told you to. And not listening to the Magical Gnomes? That, my friend, would be a huge mistake. Once you stop listening to the Magical Gnomes, you're only two steps http://www.pointsincase.com/jake/2007/10/dutch-love-shrooms.htmlJaketag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3877845361100520046.post-7773220240926760698Wed, 03 Oct 2007 19:57:00 +00002007-10-04T15:38:43.874-04:00Bush vetoes child health insurance plan President Bush vetoed a bipartisan bill from Congress today that would expanded health insurance for children. "I believe in private medicine, not the federal government running the health care system," said President Bush. "In a fair, free market economy, children would be able to choose their own doctors -- or better yet, perform surgery on themselves."http://www.pointsincase.com/jake/2007/10/news-bites.htmlJaketag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3877845361100520046.post-7640617597923699588Tue, 02 Oct 2007 19:55:00 +00002007-10-02T20:05:04.244-04:00Dear Britney Spears, Thank you for contacting us. We heard about the recent court ruling forcing you to turn your children over to Kevin Federline, and our hearts and sympathy go out to you. Whatever mistakes you may have made in the past, we realize that this is a difficult time for you, and we applaud the fact that you're reaching out to us to get help. As parenting coaches, we're here to http://www.pointsincase.com/jake/2007/10/correspondence.htmlJaketag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3877845361100520046.post-6381903859336456548Mon, 10 Sep 2007 20:47:00 +00002007-09-10T17:16:53.774-04:00Oversalted burger leads to charges A McDonalds employee is facing criminal charges for giving a police officer a burger so salty that it made the man sick. Lab results show that the problem was not an overabundance of salt, but the lack of spit, semen, and feces that found its way into most of the officer's previous burgers. "I knew something was off," the man said. "Normally I get the best http://www.pointsincase.com/jake/2007/09/news-bites.htmlJaketag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3877845361100520046.post-9179252228295826129Sun, 02 Sep 2007 00:29:00 +00002007-09-01T20:54:54.976-04:00Idaho Senator Larry Craig resigned from Congress today after becoming part of a sex scandal involving an airport bathroom, an undercover police officer, and some penises. News reports are a bit vague about what actually happened -- what was said, who was rubbed, where this rubbing took place, how hard the rubbing was, the color of the Senator's pants, etc. -- but apparently Senator Craig went http://www.pointsincase.com/jake/2007/08/rotn-in-depth-larry-craig-scandal.htmlJaketag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3877845361100520046.post-4642816667647110202Sat, 25 Aug 2007 16:48:00 +00002007-08-27T16:35:26.865-04:00Newscasters have a responsibility to the people of this country, a responsibility to uphold the free press and the standards of competent journalism, and that responsibility is never more fulfilled than when we can report that a celebrity has been caught having sex with a transvestite. - Edward R. Murrow When he emerged from the primordial ooze, Man found himself with an exciting new hobby: http://www.pointsincase.com/jake/2007/08/breaking-news-irreparably.htmlJake