http://bloggingblue.com Blogging Liberally In The Badger State Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:30:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en You'll have to excuse my focus over the last few days on conservative talk radio host Michael Savage, but his comments about autistic children and their parents merit some attention. Happily, there's some good news to report. FOXNews.com is reporting that Aflac, an advertisor on Savage's radio show, has pulled ... http://bloggingblue.com/2008/07/23/the-michael-savage-saga-continues/ I've blogged not once, but twice about the insensitive and uninformed (read, ignorant) comments of conservative radio host Michael Savage, and in an attempt to find out if 620 WTMJ (they carry Savage's show locally) condones his remarks, I emailed Program Manager Tom Parker. I called too, but apparently ... http://bloggingblue.com/2008/07/22/wtmj-savage-autism-comments-a-okay/ This past Saturday, I blogged about comments made by Michael Savage on the July 16th edition of his nationally syndicated radio show. During his show, Savage called autism a "fraud, a racket" and proceeded to explain that in 99 percent of the cases, autism is a brat who hasn’t ... http://bloggingblue.com/2008/07/21/michael-savage-no-apologies/ Have you seen this picture before? The photo, taken in March 2003, has become one of the most iconic images of the U.S. invasion of Iraq: that of an American soldier carrying a wounded Iraqi child to safety. The photograph of Army Private First Class Joseph Dwyer was used by ... http://bloggingblue.com/2008/07/20/the-iraq-wars-true-cost/ My stepdaughter and I spent Friday in Chicago. We had a wonderful day together, and now that I've had a chance to reflect on our day together, I've come to the realization that Chicago "gets it" when it comes to mass transit. Instead of driving down to Chicago, ... http://bloggingblue.com/2008/07/20/mass-transit-is-the-way-to-go/