In Grand Forks, Terry Dullum is a bit of a broadcasting legend. He reports for WDAZ on, well, kind of whatever fancies him. He even has a book club.
Uh oh. Oprah would not approve.
When a teenager or dumb blogger “appropriates” a copyrighted logo like this it’s forgivable. When a broadcaster with a lifetime of experience does, well, it calls into question the quality of education given in the University of Grand Forks Communications Department (of which Dullum is a grad; ‘70).
Update: Mr. Dullum comments that it’s only a joke. So was mine! No hard feelings? He does point out though that I incorrectly named the university. It should be the University of North Dakota-Grand Forks. I knew that but clearly did not graduate from any college at all!
Holy Christ, look at THIS thing below. It’s a new Pennsylvania Dept. of Revenue commercial telling tax cheats: “Find us or we’ll find you.” It uses a trifecta of things paranoid wing-nuts hate: Female authority figures; “black helicopter” tin-foil-hat-needing satellite surveillance; and, of course, taxes. Bravo you crazy bastards.
There are already nine (NINE!) pages of comments about this bit of local news that Grand Forks, a community of, like, 63,000, is getting its first Thai restaurant.
Good to see deep winter has not dampened Awl postercalendar boy Zack P’s sense of humor. The Grand Forks mechanic brings to our attention a particular bit of awesomeness within his Ford truck manual.
Here’s the tale of Scott Woltzen, who, during Marquette University’s run in the NCAA tournament, secured rights to sell “vintage” t-shirts with the university’s old Native American “Warriors” logo. Here’s a line from his heroic story that pretty much sums it up:
“Woltzen, a basketball agent and international sports tours coordinator who operates World Basketball Opportunities from his Port Washington home, spearheaded the effort for several alumni-athlete friends who prefer to stay in the background.” (Bolding, mine)
Wow, they seem so proud. Also, after a whole florrid explanation of how, as a kid, Scott was such a fan of the Marquette program comes this wobder “real team fan” quote:
“I’m a Marquette Warriors fan, not a Marquette Golden Eagles fan.”
Ever wonder what an Islamic website reads like but don’t speak anything other than English? Thanks to the arrest of the Michigan “Christian” militia, you’ve got the chance.
Here is a post on conservative blog Say Anything that is a true bizarro world argument about religious persecution.
“And as for the FBI and the JTTF, are they investigating the Muslim camps around the country where firearms and paramilitary training are known to be going on? Are they doing so with the same energy and resources that they obviously have devoted to the investigation of this Christian militia? If not, why not? If the allegations against this group are true, they richly deserve to be raided and arrested and shut down. But there have been allegations made against Islamic compounds in the U.S. that are quite similar, and nothing has been done. Why is that?”
