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Why I’m in journalism and not real business, Point 2001: I do force myself to save some salary twice a month, once to IRA things and the second to more-immediately available accounts. I do mutual funds, no-load indexed jobs just like neutral experts advise: Money market, stocks and bonds. This is called diversifying, and is […]
Not to cast doubt on my communications business but here is my story. It’s anecdotal yet true: I’ve discovered craigslist. My Beloved and I have spent the summer fixing up the house we call Shady Hill, doing things we’ve meant to do for a while, some of which since we bought it in early 1999. […]
Art museums are necessary evils. Even as they perform their important functions of archivism, centralization and certification, they rob their collected pieces of vital energy.” — Philip Martin, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Tuesday, Aug. 14, 2007 DATELINE MIRTHOLOGY — It’s time, my fellow Americans, to stand up to the injustice of housing works of art in museums. […]
Over in sunny old England — after my morning tea, the fog cleared in me ‘ead and I could focus on the telly — cattle disease has broken out once again. The wire services are calling this foot-and-mouth disease. Surely this is the sickness hoof-and-mouth disease, because these cud-chewers have hooves, not feet. People have […]
It’s all over the media this morning, after weeks of semi-substantiated rumor. The Bancroft family has sold Dow Jones. For us news hounds, that means The Wall Street Journal is changing hands. The Journal offered an irresistible offer to college students when I was in grad school. For more than four years we’ve gotten the […]
We were talking Sunday over coffee about the Demzette publishing a conversational yet solid-punching essay by UA’s Mohja Kahf as the lede piece in the Perspective (editorial) section. Under her name is printed The Washington Post, where the piece first ran a week ago. We were proud. Mohja is one of us. Not just a […]