Or Rudy Giuliani or the rest of the crew at Fox News? Let me set this straight very simply. Someone punches me in the face. Repeatedly. I manage to get up and […]
Why does Roger Ailes want to see Mississippi burn?
Writers of slender acquaintance: Rudyard Kipling
“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.” – Rudyard Kipling Another in the series I began last week about writers who have become neglected. This week’s choice is one […]
Does Trump actually want the job?
If Donald Trump really is running for president, he’s doing it all wrong. New poll this morning: In new poll, support for Trump has plunged, giving Clinton a double-digit lead Support for […]
Asian-American band to SCOTUS: review our trademark victory
by Amber Healy It’s not often a winning party in a long-fought legal battle asks the Supreme Court in the United States to review a lower court’s ruling that had been made in […]
Even you like hip-hop
volume eleven The Streets – The Edge of a Cliff “I’m really okay, thanks, there’s nothing to witness” I said as I looked back from the edge of the cliff The old […]
Big Bang Theory presents: top ten reasons men should pursue careers in the sciences
Hey boys – what should you be when you grow up? I know a lot of young men out there are trying to decide what to do with their lives. Fireman? Policeman? […]
Hypocrisy Watch: FOX reporter cares deeply about the liberty of those who agree with him
Donald Trump, Kim Davis and Cook Out: because the Constitution guarantees redeemed sinners the right to fast food. First, the headline: ‘Hell No!’ Cashier refuses to serve Trump backers Shannon Riggs and her cousins […]
State of the news biz in 2016? Oh, my god … it’s really bad.
Newsies dread this time of year. It’s when the Pew Research Center releases its annual State of the Media report. And the findings, for print newsies, are bad, bad, bad. Ad revenue […]
The joys of binge-watching
For the past year I have had some health issues that have taken me out of active circulation—nothing life-threatening, but certainly life changing during the period, and for a little while yet. […]
Newspapers’ big problem: failure to distinguish meaningful from meaningless
Warren Buffett, the newspaper-loving Oracle of Omaha, isn’t loving newspapers quite as much these days. Speaking of the industry’s attempts to create a viable business plan, he told USA Today’s Rem Rieder, […]
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