My two cents and $5 might get you a value meal somewhere. I like a little historical perspective. It all started when this guy did all these things, but in keeping with […]
Shutdown: some historical perspective
Michael Wolff’s Fire & Fury: is this the future of journalism?
As corrupt politicians evolve, so also must journalism. It may be ugly, but perhaps it’s necessary. Scrogue Emeritus Russ Wellen forwarded along Drew Magary’s recent GQ piece on Michael Wolff this morning, and it […]
The decent thing on Ocean Avenue
We’re built this way, thankfully… A few weeks ago in San Francisco, I had just left my favorite comics shop and was in my car about to turn south onto Ocean Avenue […]
A day to not be thankful …
Since I left college in the ‘60s, my “thankful” list has shrunk. The “not thankful” list is on its second ream of paper. Ah, Thanksgiving. The time to be thankful, as tradition […]
The corrupt American Congress: Extortionists? Or seduced by bribes? Now that’s something for the FBI to investigate
Now that the FBI has its gumshoes working on cleaning up college athletics, perhaps it could focus on examining corruption elsewhere — perhaps in the American Congress, as my S&R college Sam […]
Washington Post finally realizes “both sides” journalism is bad
It only took them 50 years to catch up with Hunter Thompson. Earlier Dr. Denny sent around an email. It linked to a WaPo article by Margaret Sullivan entitled “This week should put […]
Gannett adopts the blue dot, emblematic of market-driven thinking, at its newspapers
Oh, my. Look at the dot. It’s blue. It’s representative of “one unified network,” says the chief marketing officer of Gannett, owner of the USA Today Network. The blue dot — and […]
For the want of critical thinking, America has succumbed to tribalism
Antarctica is cold. I learned that in grade school. The record is 128.6 degrees Fahrenheit below zero set in 1983. Did you know the southernmost continent is also a desert? I know […]
Bruce Bartlett and the faux-serious political person kabuki boogaloo
Bartlett, long a fluffer for those who helped make America suck again, has now rebranded himself as a principled serious person who can be counted on to criticize both sides. You know, […]
The end of the AUMF: fake news, errors, and framing
Moyers & Co, a fine source of journalism from outside the deeply consolidated mainstream, ran a piece today, Mistakes in the News Are Not Fake News. It’s an occasionally scathing article, but […]
