The North Carolina bill that would allow people to swear on books that actually mean
something to them was supposed to be the subject of discussion on tonight's Paula Zahn show.
Apparently some people who are not happy about this move, and who would surely show our state in the very best light, were invited to participate (via Blue NC)...
...but now it looks like Paula will be talking about the untimely but somehow not wholly unsurprising death of Anna Nicole Smith.
Which topic is worthier fodder for a primetime program on a news network?
Duh.
Could you swear on a playboy? When i was 15 i had one. i thought that it was pretty dog gone special.
and, i don't believe the koran is a sacred text. so, would i be barred from swearing on it?
Posted by: Greensboro transplant | Feb 08, 2007 at 08:51 PM
Presumably, an atheist could swear on a Playboy magazine.
If he could make a convincing argument that it's sacred to him.
Posted by: Joe Killian | Feb 08, 2007 at 09:28 PM
Margaret Banks had a running commentary going in the newsroom this afternoon on Anna Nicole Smith, and dear God, if I had had even my $9.95 Target microphone handy, the N&R would have had the World's Greatest Comedy Podcast posted before sunset.
We don't normally obsess about celebrities. (The whole thing about George Bush 41 patting Teri Hatcher on the butt passed us by unnoticed, for example.) But this outburst, she said, was triggered, by e-mails from our former colleague Scott Andron, who now runs the Miami Herald bureau in the county where Smith died.
Posted by: Lex | Feb 08, 2007 at 09:36 PM
How come folks who insist that only the Bible be used for swearing in purposes never ask if the person doing the swearing actually believes in the book? (Geez, hope I'm not giving anyone ideas.)
Posted by: billg | Feb 08, 2007 at 09:55 PM
Love the new direction Lisa is taking in her photography.
Posted by: Jim Rosenberg | Feb 09, 2007 at 12:01 AM
"Margaret Banks had a running commentary going in the newsroom this afternoon on Anna Nicole Smith, and dear God, if I had had even my $9.95 Target microphone handy, the N&R would have had the World's Greatest Comedy Podcast posted before sunset."
that's cold.
Posted by: Greensboro transplant | Feb 09, 2007 at 01:08 PM
http://www.attytood.com/2007/02/breaking_news_young_woman_meet.html
Posted by: Jim Caserta | Feb 09, 2007 at 03:08 PM
Wait...George Bush I patted Teri Hatcher on the butt?
Posted by: Joe Killian | Feb 09, 2007 at 04:17 PM
Joe: Google is your
friendemetic.Posted by: Lex | Feb 10, 2007 at 01:11 PM