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Let us now praise The Home Depot. It has won my heart for the next spell, by its stock, its helpful clerks, its new auto-checkout stands and not least, a consistent lack of crazy drivers in its parking lot. Yes, this is a prize that alternates with Loew’s. Every year or so, I am forced […]
Everybody has something to say about today, and what happened five years ago, today. Where is the numerology for the ninth month and eleventh day? Or the date of the first Trade Center attack. Or the hit on the USS Cole. Or the attack in Madrid. The one on London buses and subways. What would […]
On an infamous morning like 9/11, the one five years ago, you don’t know what terror the afternoon will see. Evening finally came, and whether or not you had constant access to television during the day, you sure kept your eyes on the tube that night. To make sense of it? Yes, but more, so […]
I am reading the new biography ‘All Governments Lie’: The Life and Times of Rebel Journalist I. F. Stone by Myra MacPherson. Mr. Stone worked for a few years at the famous experimental New York newspaper P.M. Reading again about the trendsetting daily of the late 1940s and early 1950s was coincident given the news […]
Newspaper supplements as a rule have disclaimers in them. Sure they’re small type, but they are there. They basically give the dates of the sale, that rainchecks are offered if an advertised item gets depleted and that the prices are exactly as posted. Ozark Natural Foods, my favorite grocery store, has up and run a […]
Why having an ombudsman seems to be a publication’s cop-out: From Romenesko: “Atlanta Journal-Constitution reader Carolyn Worthy fears 12-year-old ballplayer Josh Lester will be scarred for life as a result of the paper’s decision to picture him crying after his team lost a Little League World Series game. Ombud Angela Tuck writes: ‘Had a similar […]