"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
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
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
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
If you're looking for some alternative political listening for this long, long Election Day, check out this segment from the October 24 episode of WNYC's "On the Media," which handily debunks the myth of the Bradley effect: Ghost of Bradley Present
Here are a set of three very different articles, different in every way, one for each of the three beauty queens in John McCain's life: The Daily Mail on Carol McCain: "The Wife U.S. Republican John McCain Callously Left Behind" by Sharon Churcher The New
Sarah Palin doesn't know what the Bush Doctrine is, and her embarrassing attempts to weasel a clue out of Charles Gibson are not even worthy of a high-school forensics student: Yes, Mrs. Palin, obviously you're ready to be President. I will sleep without nightmares knowing you
I like the part in this Paul Begala editorial at CNN.com where he calls Lieberman McCain's "fellow Iraq Kool-Aid drinker." Now I'm logging off. Really.
In July Sarah Palin asked, facetiously, what it is the vice-president really does: Granted, she seemed to be using levity to deflect the question of whether or not she would be a McCain VP pick, but she sounds pretty silly in the process. Maybe she should have read last year&
If this is true, McCain and the Republicans are going hard after disgruntled female Clinton supporters. Now I'm very afraid.
I guess giving away free ebooks is only news when HarperCollins does it, not Tor or Ace or especially Baen.
An anonymous reader points out that I did indeed hear Africa referred to as "the dark continent" on NPR last week, and that they apologized today on air: http://www.npr.org/corrections/
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