Bob McCarty Writes

While reporting on President Barack Obama’s use of the word, “Uhh,” once every 9 seconds during an hour-long news conference Tuesday, I barely mentioned his shift away from the use of a traditional teleprompter to a large-screen monitor placed at the back of the room full of reporters. Others, however, paid more attention to the [...]

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Talk about irony.  On the very day that CNN published a glowing report about former Sen. George Mitchell’s diplomatic efforts in Northern Ireland, violence erupted at a British Army barracks on the Emerald Isle.
Yesterday, the Atlanta-based cable news network published a Mitchell-adoring piece on its web site under the headline, Out of trouble: How diplomacy [...]

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Fifty years ago, Mattel introduced a new doll to the world at the New York Toy Fair.  While that’s a big deal for the toymaker (see this news release for proof), a Sky News report has me wondering about the implications of a Barbie® doll sporting tattoos.
According to Sky News, a new Barbie® doll known [...]

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“FIRE IN ‘THE CHUNNEL!’”

That’s what’s being reported in the British and French press about the undersea Channel Tunnel that connects England and France:
All freight and passenger services were suspended after a “serious incident” on French side of the tunnel. — The (UK) Telegraph
Some 32 truck drivers have been evacuated from a freight [...]

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At home and abroad, short people dominated the news today.
In Sweden, gangs of criminals have been found to be hiding dwarves in sports bags and smuggling them onto buses to steal luggage, according to a Sky News report. Once inside the baggage hold of a bus, the tiny terrors rummaged through personal belongings of [...]

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