Sunday, March 18, 2012
Sportswriter Furman Bisher dies at 93 | ajc.com - Alexis Stevens - He covered the Masters, Kentucky Derby and the Georgia-Georgia Tech football game more than 50 times each. Most of the Super Bowls, too. - "He put more quality words on newsprint than any other writer in the last half of the 20th century," former editor of The Atlanta Journal and the Atlanta Constitution. Jim Minter said late Sunday. "He never wrote a bad column."
Ashley Judd accidentally swiped a Kentucky player's phone - USATODAY - Nicole Auerbach -According to a tweet from sophomore forward Terrence Jones Saturday night, Judd took Jones' phone. Jones' tweet: If your trying to reach me on my phone you cant because @AshleyJudd took my phone to e town Judd tweeted back at him: @TerrenceJones1 Terrence, your Mom called! Turns out Judd realized her mistake after she left Louisville and organized a way to get Jones his phone back.
Rush Limbaugh ad fight shows power of social media - San Francisco Chronicle - Joe Garofoli -Activist groups appeal to their members - which range from a few thousand to a few million depending on the size of the organization, to exert pressure on advertisers with telephone calls, e-mail messages and mass postings to the companies' Twitter and Facebook sites.
Bales’s Wife Kept Blog - The Daily Beast - The wife of Robert Bales, the Army staff sergeant accused of killing 16 Afghan civilians, kept a blog about being a military wife during the 11 years her husband spent in the military. Although most of the family’s online presence has been taken down, there were still some remnants of Karilyn Bales’s blog about her family.
Is Elvis a Mormon? - NYTimes.com - Maureen Dowd - The Journal reported that Romney has filed an application to replace his single-story 3,000-square-foot beach house in La Jolla, Calif., with a 7,400-square-foot home featuring an additional 3,600 square feet of finished underground space. It’s a metaphor alert, reinforcing the two image problems Romney has: that he’s an out-of-touch plutocrat and that his true nature is buried where we can’t see it. His two-year missionary stint in France taught Mitt to steel himself against rejection. Still, he must feel awful heading into Illinois (where Joseph Smith, the Mormon Church founder, was running for president when he was killed by a mob), spending so much money to buy so little affection.
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