And Yet More Random Bits!

Atlantis dis­cov­ered?
“Sci­en­tists claim to have found the lost city of Atlantis, off the coast of Cyprus. They appar­ent­ly have used sonar to detect the sunken land­mass, and even iden­ti­fy geo­graph­i­cal fea­tures. They seem con­fi­dent, but all the same, I would­n’t go buy­ing Atlant­ian arti­facts on Ebay just yet.”

For my writer­ly friends: write­hemi­sphere. Even bet­ter, write­hemis car­ries full entries.

GOP Allied Media Group Orders Affil­i­ates To Pre­empt “Night­line” Show Hon­or­ing Slain U.S. Troops
Cit­ing polit­i­cal rea­sons, the Sin­clair Broad­cast Group ordered its ABC affil­i­ates to pre­empt a broad­cast of ABC News’ “Night­line” where host Ted Kop­pel will read the names of every U.S. sol­dier killed in com­bat in Iraq. 98 per­cent of Sin­clair’s polit­i­cal con­tri­bu­tions in 2004 have gone to Repub­li­can can­di­dates. We speak with Jane Bright, who lost her son in Iraq, and Nor­man Solomon of the Insti­tute for Pub­lic Accuracy.