Archive | December 8, 2008

The Trib is dead; long live the Trib?

The first domino has fallen. The Tribune Co., publisher of what used to be some of America’s best newspapers and operators of 23 television stations, has filed for bankruptcy, citing nearly $13 billion in debt compared with $7.6 billion in assets. Let’s make book: Who’s next? Could it be McClatchy, the nation’s third-largest newspaper chain, […]

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Queer Eye for the G.I.

By Jeff Huber William S. Lind, co-creator of the Fourth Generation Warfare concept and director of the Center for Cultural Conservatism, says a lot of smart things about national security, but he doesn’t say any of them about the issue of gays and women in the military. My admittedly limited experience of the gay lifestyle […]

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The "dumbest generation": sloppy thinking, maybe, but it's put-up-or-shut-up time for Gen X

In the past I’ve written about a variety of generational issues, and have often focused on the Millennials. At times I’ve been construed as dogging them pretty hard. As I’ve tried to explain, my criticisms of them (for being entitled, for lacking critical thinking skills, etc.) haven’t really been criticisms of them, per se – […]

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Nota Bene #50

Link of the Week (as opposed to the Weakest Link) Diana Henriques, the New York Times, Bailout Monitor Sees Lack of a Coherent Plan: “Our objectives in asking Congress for a financial rescue package were to first stabilize a financial system on the verge of collapse. . . ” Mr. Paulson said at one recent […]

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