Excusing Petraeus
David Petraeus's downfall at the CIA, resigning after his marital infidelity was exposed, has gotten the kind of press coverage generally reserved for winning the Nobel Prize or becoming the first man...
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Why we women can’t have it all and should lower our expectations especially...
We women have had a rough few decades. The modern woman has to worry about pleasing their man or finding a man. We have to worry about children. We have to worry about our jobs and vaginas. But it...
View ArticleI don't need to know their names
It's Saturday, the day after what will forever be known as the Sandy Hook School murders. Yesterday Adam Lanza, a 20-year-old man, broke into Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut and...
View ArticleYour New Year's Public Domain Report: 2013
It's January 1, which means it's the day that works whose copyright has expired enter the public domain. Here's the list of works that entered the public domain in the United States today: Nothing....
View ArticleThe Information Jacuzzi - Part I
Back in 1996, when mobile phones looked like giant calculators, and a social network was a just group of friends, comedian Dave Barry published a book called Dave Barry in Cyberspace. He devoted a...
View ArticleThe Information Jacuzzi - Part II
This article continues from The Information Jacuzzi - Part I.The Middle Ages was not a great era for budding writers. In those days, there was only one large publisher in all of Western Europe: the...
View ArticleOutbreak of Brazilian virgins has imaginary bidders lining up
When Justin Sisely announced that he planned to film a “Virgin Sells Virginity” porn, the media went wild, endlessly repeating a story based on nothing.Now, that’s not a big surprise. What is a...
View ArticleOh, no. Sybil
I've started a new non-political blog at WordPress and this is one of my posts there. Come on over and check it out!Oh, no. SybilMoments after Lady Sybil Branson, nee Crawley, a main character on...
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Will the Real Bob Woodward Please Sit Down?
Once there was a young Washington Post reporter named Bob Woodward who became a celebrity almost overnight by joining with another reporter named Carl Bernstein (remember him?) to expose the inner...
View Article12 GOP senators switch to communism after Obama buys them dinner
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama – in an attempt to ease tensions with Senate Republicans – bought a dozen GOP senators dinner last night, in what all have said was a pleasant evening. The dinner...
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Hulabaloo at the Soo
Let me just say right off that when it comes to Homeland and border security, I'm all for it. When it comes to appreciating how essential shipping is to the Great Lakes, I'm right at the head of the...
View ArticleThings We Did Not Learn About the Marathon Bombings
Let's recap the things that did not happen on the sorry day that the Boston Marathon was bombed: Five unexploded bombs were not discovered nearby. No unexploded bombs were discovered nearby. The...
View ArticleSatire killed in suicide bomb attack
NEW YORK — The writing style of satire was blown up in a suicide attack at its home in the upper West side of Manhattan. Snark and Snide Disregard were also injured in the attack and are currently in...
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A Psychic Got it Wrong. Who Knew?
As if it wasn't enough this week that three young women held captive and terrorized by a madman were found alive after 10 long years, we now learn that in 2004, celebrated psychic Sylvia Browne made...
View ArticleSix Things Media Personalities Could and Should Avoid when Covering a Disaster
On Monday, May 20, a devastating monster of a tornado hit Moore, Oklahoma; the second category 5 tornado to hit this little town. (It happened before on May 3, 1999, with 44 deaths.) Reports coming in...
View ArticleBlogging Like Chaucer
I love academic bloggers. Academic bloggers worry me sick. And the bloggers who keep me up at night are the ones who have adjunct or alt-ac jobs but are trying to move to the tenure track. Some of...
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FRIDAY FOLLIES: Bachmann's Adios, Hitler Tea Kettle, Michigan Dreaming, and...
Michele Bachmann to leave Washington to spend more time with her "family". Prompts the resurrection of FRIDAY FOLLIES. (What? Every Friday? Uh. . .we'll see how it goes.)So Michele Bachmann is...
View ArticleThe Death of (The Golden Age of) Blogging
I saw an excellent speaker recently who said you never know you've regained your bearings as a pilot until you realize that you previously had lost them. (That's a quote with a lot of...
View ArticleA Tale of Two Newspapers
Everyone's talking about Jeff Bezos buying The Washington Post. But it's also been a dramatic week for two newspapers close to my heart in different ways: The Boston Globe and The Cleveland Plain...
View ArticleGenghis Speaks: Journalism in the 21st Century - Blogs and Social Media
Hello folks. I'm sorry you haven't heard much from me lately. My nose is pressing hard against the proverbial grindstone as I race to finish my book by October. It has a new title, by the...
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