While attending the AAN Convention two weeks ago, Creative Loafing's Laura Fries made regular blog posts about her experiences in the city of Little Rock. Arkansas Times posted a few of her pictures and a link to her coverage, but its readers were offended by Fries' failure to be impressed by the barbeque and her assertion that "Little Rock’s downtown ... consists of one street." "God have mercy on this idiot woman," one of the most generous commenters wrote. Fries then posted the meanest comments back on her own blog, under the title "HHHooo-wee! Little Rock bites back!"

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David Race Bannon, the man who claimed to have been an assassin for Interpol as well as an expert on child sex-trafficking, has pleaded guilty to one count of criminal impersonation and will likely face fines, not jail time, at his sentencing on Thursday, The Charlotte Observer reports. Back in February, Boulder Weekly Editor Pamela White published an apology to her readers for featuring Bannon in a 2004 cover story.

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