Black Thought II
The trials and tribulations of a 23-year-old college student who in his head thinks he's already a star in the journalism world. Ok, ok, maybe not a star...
My TV blog at work...
What better way to fly back in style then to confess to the biggest unsolved murder in the last 10 years.
Seriously, this guy needs to be locked up just for looking like Creepy Wonder.
And we are back to square one on this whole JonBenet case....
O.J. did it, that's my theory and I'm sticking to it....
BOULDER, Colorado (CNN) -- Prosecutors abandoned their case against schoolteacher John Mark Karr on Monday, saying that DNA tests failed to link Karr to the slaying of child beauty contestant JonBenet Ramsey.
Karr was briefly freed from jail but was quickly returned to await extradition to California, where he is wanted on five misdemeanor child pornography counts, Boulder County Sheriff Joseph Pelle said.
District Attorney Mary Lacy revealed how the case against Karr was built -- and unraveled -- in a five-page motion asking a judge to drop the arrest warrant that brought Karr from Bangkok, Thailand. (Read the documents. (Viewer discretion advised.))
DNA tests completed Saturday confirmed that Karr "was not the source of the DNA found on the underwear of JonBenet Ramsey" -- disproving his claim that he was sexually involved with the child and killed her by accident.
Karr's family also provided "strong circumstantial" evidence he was with them in Georgia at the time of the crime, court papers stated.
The prosecutor's motion said "no evidence has developed, other than his own repeated admissions, to place Mr. Karr at the scene of the crime." (Watch the case against Karr fall apart -- 1:17)
Karr's Colorado public defender, Seth Temin, first disclosed that no charges would be filed and that a hearing scheduled for late Monday afternoon had been canceled.
Defender 'distressed'
"We're deeply distressed by the fact they took this man, dragged him back here from Bangkok, Thailand, with no forensic evidence confirming the allegations against him and no independent factors leading to a presumption that he did anything wrong," Temin said.
Prosecutors will offer their version of events Tuesday.
According to Lacy's court papers, University of Colorado journalism professor Michael Tracey brought Karr to the attention of investigators in April.
Using the pseudonyms "D" and later, "Daxis," Karr began communicating in 2002 with the professor, who has produced documentaries on the 10-year Ramsey investigation.
At first, court papers say, "Daxis" claimed to know two people who participated in the crime, but later insisted he was personally responsible.
His story emerged slowly, through e-mails, a manuscript and nearly a dozen phone calls. Still, the writer continued to keep his true identity and whereabouts secret from Tracey, the court papers stated.
He claimed to be sexually involved with the child, including "temporarily asphyxiating her," the court papers said.
'Lost track of time'
And, he said he "had 'accidentally' killed her by becoming so sexually involved that he lost track of time so that the asphyxiation lasted longer than he intended, causing her severe injury and leading him to inflict a severe blow to her head," the document stated.
Autopsy results showed JonBenet had suffered a blow to the head and been strangled with a garrote tightened with a paintbrush handle.
Tracey reached out to authorities in April when his contact became increasingly interested in contacting Patsy Ramsey, JonBenet's mother, who was in the final weeks of her life. Patsy Ramsey died of ovarian cancer in June. The contact also related that he was in continuing contact with young girls, the court papers stated.
Authorities were able to trace phone calls to Tracey from "Daxis" to Karr in Thailand, court papers said.
In a court filing last week, Boulder prosecutors said they had known Karr's identity for just five days before he was arrested and that the investigation into his possible role in the case was in its preliminary phase.
After his arrest, Karr told reporters in Thailand he was with JonBenet the night she died, and that her death was an accident. The 6-year-old's beaten and strangled body was found December 26, 1996, in the basement of her family's Boulder home.
Karr's arrest, nearly 10 years after the grisly crime that grew into an international media sensation, had given the Ramsey family hope that the slaying had, at long last, been solved.
Patsy Ramsey's sister, Paulette Paugh-Davis, said the family was "hanging in there." She declined to comment further. (Watch Patsy Ramsey's sister reveal what the family will do if Karr isn't guilty -- 4:11)
After Karr's statements in Thailand, questions have surfaced as to whether the slight, soft-spoken man could have been involved in the grisly killing. On Monday, what some experts had been saying appeared to ring true: John Mark Karr's involvement with JonBenet Ramsey's murder was a fantasy.
Online or print?
Business or sports?
I guess I should have done a better job of answering these questions for myself before I went to NABJ last week in Indy.
It was my first convention and my first job fair period. I don't know how I managed to escape them for as long as I did but I wasn't sure really want to expect from recruiters.
Going into it, I wasn't looking for an internship for the most part. I am comfortable where I am currently and there are no jobs that are going to match the pay of what I'm getting now.
But I guess the reason why I spent all three days at the fair was in preparation for when I graduate (Don't ask when - I think Winter 07).
I can't exactly tell you what I want to do after school.
I know I want to write.
And write sports.
But I'm not against business reporting or doing the online thing either.
Hell, I'll say it. Whatever pays the most, honestly.
The fair was also productive in the sense of I needed to get my ego a reality check.
I don't think I'm that cocky though sometimes it appears that way but I know I have a pretty good resume but wanted to get a sense on the strength of my clips.
Nothing worse than sitting down with the one recruiter you wanted to meet all weekend and she finds a typo in a story.
D'oh.
It was a humbling experience to say the least but nobody is perfect, right?
For the record, starring is spelled with two r's, not r.
18 Units.
Holla.
15 out of 16 and 1st place in the NL West.Nuff said.
I have decided to return to school for my senior year.
Since the first of the year, I wasn't sure what my school situation would be after this recent spring semester. In the back of my mind, I knew I really couldn't afford school on my own so I started coming up with a back up plan just in case.
And while I am glad that I am returning to school in the fall, this past summer was a good test to see what kind of response I would get for a resume filled with internships but lacking the most important thing - a degree.
Shockingly, it went better than expected. If I wasn't able to return to school, I had a job offer lined up which I ended up turning down weeks ago. And by job, I don't mean secretary or anything like that, a serious j-o-b.
But alas, instead of getting paid to watch sports for a living, it's back to Hofstra USA parties and Dutch Treats - for at least one more year.
The real world will always be there - it's time to enjoy my time as a student while I can.
Matt Leinart's right and left nut would like to disagree to her statement...
LONDON, England (AP) -- Paris Hilton says she is sick of boyfriends and is celibate.
The 25-year-old who gained international fame when a former boyfriend posted a videotape of the couple having sex on the Internet denied leading a promiscuous lifestyle in an interview with the British edition of GQ magazine.
"I'm not having sex for a year. ... I'll kiss, but nothing else," says Hilton, who told the magazine she has had sex with only two men during her lifetime.
Of the videotape with Rick Solomon that became one of the most searched-for items on the Internet in 2003, she said: "I never received a dime from it. It's just dirty money and he should give it all to some charity for the sexually abused or something."
The Hilton Hotels heir and uber-socialite told the magazine she is "very shy" and relates to the late Princess Diana, who was hounded by photographers.
"I've been in cars trying to get away from speeding paparazzi before and it's horrible, so I can relate to Diana and the problems she had," Hilton is quoted as saying.
During the interview, Hilton also displayed some political illiteracy.
When asked about British Prime Minister Tony Blair, her response was: "Who? ... Oh, yeah, he's like your president. I don't know what he looks like."
Hilton also told the magazine she collects $500,000 in fees just to show up at parties and other events from Las Vegas to Tokyo. Her best-paying gig, she said, was a recent Austrian appearance.
"I had to say 'hi' and tell them why I loved Austria so much," she is quoted as saying.
And why does she like Austria? "Because they pay me $1 million to wave at crowds!"
