On my walk this evening, far out in the country, I came across a sight I was probably not meant to see: a congress of cats gathered in the road. Three of them sat upright, far enough away that I first mistook them for turkeys. A fourth stood poised in midstride, the same color and […]
Archive | July, 2012
TunesDay ALERT: Jeffrey Dean Foster at CD Baby – the best $10 you'll spend this week
I just tripped over this at Jeffrey Dean Foster’s FB page: Until August 3rd CDBaby is selling JDF’s Million Star Hotel and The Pinetops’ Above Ground and Vertical for only $5.00 each for the digital download. Plus they are not taking any percentage of the sale. So get them while they are cheap and help out the […]
Irony, thy name is Rio
You couldn’t possibly have seen this one coming. For years, Manchester United and English national team defender Rio Ferdinand has dedicated himself to ridding soccer of its ugly and pervasive racism. Recently, he has seen his brother, Queens Park Rangers defender Anton, embroiled in an ugly did-he-or-didn’t-he case involving Chelsea (and England) star John Terry. […]
Remembering the Indianapolis: "We delivered the bomb"
As landlocked as it is, some 650 miles from the Atlantic and 1830 miles from the Pacific, Indianapolis isn’t the first place I think of when I think of battleships. Then again, there are few battleships more storied in American imagination than the WWII ship that bore the city’s name. Like millions of other moviegoers, […]
Olympic Diary (1)
Well, we don’t actually have any sporting events to go to until Tuesday (when we get to see both the Brazilian men and women beach volleyball teams in action), but that doesn’t mean we haven’t been busy with Olympic stuff. There’s an astonishing number of non-athletic events going on, and, what the hell, we live […]
Hey, Cream fans: Eric Clapton might be dead, but Jack Bruce is doing just fine
By Patrick Vecchio The endorsement:
Everyone has a story. Even Mr. Don’t Mess With Me.
By Patrick Vecchio The sun was in my face. Which is not to say I was facing it. Rather, I was standing in line on a baked sidewalk with the sun like a heat lamp to my left. It was in my face like a bully getting in your face: “You don’t like me? You […]
Be honest: Even if facts are just ripped from a press release, journalists must cite the source
The plagiarism rule I learned in the newsroom 45 years ago is this: Don’t steal. It has a corollary: Never deceive readers. Earlier this month, the Kansas City Star fired columnist Steve Penn “for using material that wasn’t his and representing it as his own work.” Penn, at least a dozen times, the paper says, […]
A beautiful, despairing journey with a coal-black horse
There’s a kind of myth-making happening in Robert Olmstead’s novel Coal Black Horse. Published in 2007, I had the chance this past week to journey with the horse once more, and it was a trip well worth taking. Set in the middle of the Civil War—itself a fertile era of American mythology—Olmstead’s story follows a fourteen-year-old […]
CBO's overlooked caution: 'ObamaCare' impact on deficit 'highly uncertain'
I don’t think anyone in this town believes that repealing ObamaCare is going to increase the deficit. — John Boehner, speaker of the House, Jan. 6, 2011, at his first press conference as speaker. The Congressional Budget Office, in response to a request from John Boehner, opined Tuesday in a letter to the speaker that […]
Old Kinderhook, 150 years later
I’ve been passing by the highway exit for the Martin Van Buren National Historic Site, outside Albany, NY, for the better part of four decades, shuffling back and forth between family in western Pennsylvania and family in Maine. I keep saying, “I’m gonna stop there someday”—and this morning, Tuesday, July 24, I decided today would […]
S&R Honors
Click here to learn more about past honorees...- IRS/Tea Party controversy: progressive groups “targeted,” too, and corporate media once again refuses to tell Americans the whole truth
- “Useful Enemies”: U.S. admitted not just Nazis after WWII, but their sadistic collaborators
- The time a source has to respond to request for comment? Virtually none.
- Profiling the Tea Party: In defense of the IRS. Sorta. Or not.
- Saturday Video Roundup: “Imagine the Band,” by John Lennon and Wings
- Mystery Unraveled: How a white, moderate, married, churchgoing, middle-class, middle-aged woman could vote for Obama
- An open letter to Burt Rutan, regarding his WSJ commentary on human-caused climate disruption
- Meet the men of Match.com: Really, guys, are you serious?
- Climate scientists still besieged
- Pelosi on Bush: “He’s not worth impeaching”
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