Beginning with this post, I’m starting a regular feature called “Nota Bene” in which I round up interesting blog posts and bits of news each day, M-F (with Monday covering weekend goodies). […]
Nota Bene #1
Thompson praises Imperial Privilege
High-profile K Street lobbyist Fred Thompson, who’s in the process of ramping up a run for the White House, today provided a glimpse of the respect with which his administration would display […]
Libbyrated
President Bush has decreed that his veep’s former chief of staff, the convicted Lewis “Scooter” Libby, will not have to do prison time. It’s good to be the king, but better yet, […]
ESPN’s ‘Who’s Now’: Why tell kids dollars, ‘buzz’ best measure of success?
ESPN, bless its profit-making soul, has joined the growing list of media that negate my need to think for myself. And if you’re a young athlete, ESPN is giving you all the […]
The naked tail: how online social networks are destroying offline social conventions
There is a spectre stalking the fringes of social networking; of Facebook, of MySpace, of LinkedIn. It will linger long after the romance of connecting with old friends is gone. It is […]
The Trouble with Paradise, or why Pakistan sucks
Many years of grizzled travelling will give you a cavalier attitude to roadside cuisine and a thick skin to the casual xenophobia which occasionally greets the weary traveller. Most tourists have trouble-free […]
iHype and the unHip
By Sunfell Apple wants me to be a Pod Person. Seriously. According to them, I’m the frumpy, square, humorless, uncreative, stuck in biz-mode PC guy in the ads. I’m the one not […]
What if reporters simply refused to pretend that Paris Hilton was news?
Wow. It may all have been scripted, but I don’t care – MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski is my new hero. This is priceless. Happy Friday, everybody… [Thanks to Aaron over at 5th Estate […]
Too much Rush? Dems lose bid to regulate talk radio
Rush will drone on, relatively unopposed, on the airways. So will Sean and Bill. Overlooked Thursday because of the various political and media brouhahas caused by the defeat of the miasma known […]
Recent statements from morons
We have eliminated the danger of sectarian war. — Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki this week to visiting Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte. I do think that it would not be a […]
