Cheatin' the Jailer Man

William Shunn
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Ding! dong! Ken Lay is dead!

This is one of those fleeting moments when one hopes the Devil is real.

News Politics

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William Shunn
William Shunn

Hugo and Nebula Award nominee. Creator of Proper Manuscript Format, Spelling Bee Solver, Tylogram, and more. Banned in Canada.

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Poems

"We"

"We got our asses kicked yesterday." Monday morning at a diner in the suburbs, the words spiral over from the next table. The men have been talking about work, and at first I think they mean on the job site. But of course by "we" they

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Email

Subscribe to My New Mailing List

I wrote my own mailing list software for this website at least a decade ago, but I've grown a bit tired of trying to maintain it on my own. I'm switching over to MailChimp for all my email newsletter needs. The old mailing list is going

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Animals

Cheeta! Cheeta!

UPDATE! 11:44 a.m.  I was right to be suspicious of this story. Turns out that R.D. Rosen in the Washington Post debunked Cheeta's supposed longevity back in 2008. The news media has done an abominable job of fact-checking today. NPR itself acknowledged in a sidebar

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Chicago

The Chicago Media Future Conference, June 13th

If you're reading this, I assume you have at least a passing interest, if not a full-blown stake, in the future of online journalism. Most saliently, how can the business of news-gathering and distribution be monetized? Can it ever make money? How will the news business survive in

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