Well, well, well. Look at the snarling beast that’s threatening to rear its head this summer in Denver: Not to mention that there’s going to be a significant Iraq veteran contingent at […]
Clinton abandons home-court advantage
I’m looking at Sen. Hillary Clinton’s comments in the wake of her primary victories yesterday in Texas and Ohio, and I’m wondering if I now have even more reason to be worried […]
And you think you worked in a sweatshop?
It’s an old saw that most newspaper people complain about long hours, low pay, lack of love from the public and overbearing editors who think they know what the story ought to […]
I don't understand women. And I could use some help.
by JS O’Brien Last night, I had a small disagreement with my wife. See, I want to take this potential client and his spouse out for dinner, and I’d like to have her […]
Looks like the Iran NIE has gone the way of the Iraq Study Group
The UN Security Council just passed a third set of sanctions against Iran ostensibly because it refuses to cease and desist enriching uranium. In truth it was informed by another issue both […]
The Weekly Carboholic
According to an article in New Scientist, scientists from the University of Colorado – Boulder have calculated that a) there isn’t much volcanic dust in the Earth’s atmosphere and b) that may […]
Fly to Hawaii to be green
I got this forwarded to me today: Be Green, Go To Kokua The ‘BCO Morning Show wants to know how you are working to save the planet, and if you’re picked we’ll […]
Why I'm not a journalist, or the inferiority complex of the modern media
By Martin Bosworth Ever since I started writing professionally, my friends have asked me why I don’t go into journalism full-time. “You’d be great at it, they say–you’re a natural!” Now, maybe […]
Covering political rallies: Who decides what TV cameras show?
For months we in the US of A have been watching candidates for our presidency speak at rallies and the apparently endless debates hosted by, it seems, everybody but fast-food chains. We […]
Why do so many bad ideas seem natural to voting Americans?
Joe Brewer and George Lakoff have published a new analysis that looks at the importance of “cognitive policy” – the process of constructing the assumptions that underlie actual material policy decisions. For […]
