A Good Year for the Outlaw

Ah, April 1st. My favorite holiday!
In the past few years, I’ve been known to play some pretty elaborate pranks on the radio stations I’ve been working at, either as an on-air host or as a behind the desk manager.
Some of my favorites:
Kenny Chesney’s stoppin’ by! – A few years back, while doing afternoons on WXCL [...]

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So I’m traveling East on 74 Wednesday afternoon, heading to Bloomington for a hockey game, when I look in my mirror and see a battered red pickup (damaged grill, dented bumper) roaring up behind me. The dude gets so close behind me that two of his nose cilia brush against my coccyx. Needless to say, [...]

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Maryland Senator Ben Cardin is proposing that newspapers be allowed to operate as non-profits.
Hmmm.
Considering the stock prices of most major newspaper companies today, I think they already are.

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Ready for gas prices to spike for no apparent, and certainly no good reason? At the same time this morning, gas was being reported at $1.88 per gallon of unleaded in Decatur, but just a few miles up the road in LeRoy, it spiked to $2.28 after being $1.99 the night before.
First of all, [...]

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I made a semi-angry post last week about AIG and their “smug execs”. In doing so, I broke my own rule about “generalizing” and lumping all people or things into one bucket, regardless of subject. This morning, I read the letter of resignation from Jake DeSantis, AIG-F.P., to Mr. Liddy, the CEO of the company. [...]

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Are you kidding me? Young Mr. Schock is already calling the stimulus plan a failed package, and trying to stay in lock step with the GOP party line and lay the blame entirely at President Obama and Nancy Pelosi’s feet.
But in Quincy this week, he called those on Wall Street “crooks“:
“But to continue to bailout [...]

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Joe Scarborough had this to say about Jon Stewart this week:
“A politician stumbles over himself,” MSNBC “Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough said on his own program. “Then they pick it out. They edit it. He runs the clip, and then he makes a funny face, and the whole audience has a Pavlovian response. And you [...]

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It appears as if the AHL’s short-lived, unsuccessful-at-the-gate run in the Quad Cities, and more specifically at the iWireless Center in Moline, is over.
This takes away the closest rival (and thus, cheapest travel costs) for the Peoria Rivermen, and also, I believe, sets the stage for the AHL’s eventual exodus from downstate Illinois. Some [...]

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About a mile south of Kewanee, a friend of mine has a nice little used car lot. Every once in awhile, heading South on my commute, I glance over to check his inventory and see, way in the back, darn near 100% hidden from the view of passing traffic, a Henry Co. deputy, backed into [...]

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Listening to a right wing talk show over the weekend on AM radio, and the guest was discussing how President Obama’s “redistribution” of monies might indeed be “discrimination”. He called it Financial Discrimination, and said he thought the mega rich would “have a case” against the government.
The host then said “so you think the [...]

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Anybody ever remember Illinois’ highways in such bad shape after a hard winter like this? The underpass in Laura on Route 78 would make the organizers of the Baja 100 proud. I set a new record in the Charger the other morning, hitting a rut and flying OVER the train tracks instead of driving under [...]

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As I’m watching the “new” WHOI 10 pm news last night, flipping back and forth with WEEK, I’m thinking to myself, “Lee Ranson has got it made! He can’t go wrong!”
Think about it…Lee gives two opposite forecasts, one on each station, and one of them HAS to be right! Then, at year’s end, he claims [...]

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I have no problem with SUV’s. If that’s what you want to drive, absolutely go for it.
But…but…but…if you’re going to take a four-wheel drive SUV onto a winding country county road and then try to keep up with a Hemi-powered Charger, which is really not much more than a Mercedes E-Class chassis with a [...]

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TWO NEW UPDATES BELOW
Individual meetings are happening right now with WEEK management and WHOI newsroom employees, with each employee finding out their immediate future. WEEK as entered into a direct-share agreement with WHOI to produce the ABC affiliate’s news.
My source tells me the WHOI newsroom is indeed closed. There are no newscasts being prepared [...]

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Yep, someone feels that Rush Limbaugh’s comments can be “ugly”. I wonder what liberal wacko said that:
Rush Can Be Ugly

Oops.

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