If one wanted to blog observations — the more daily and more local the better — the time to start imprinting the habit couldn’t be better than one’s state Legislature’s general session. Forking pickles from a bucket. I hate easy pickin’s. So I’m hoping to just focus on matters that just might become law, not […]
All these flags being half-staff have been making me nervous. A little Internet work, and it turns out to be legit. Formal mourning for a president is 30 days. It’s in the U.S. Code. The pertinent section is “m.” Poor President Ford. Now the real histories can start to be compiled. I bet scholars will […]
A great columnist passes. It’s Art Buchwald, about whom I wrote nearly a year ago, when he’d been in hospice just a few weeks and well before he recovered enough to get thrown out. Actually he was a part of my master’s thesis of spring 2003, which researched the apparent death of the newspaper humor […]
In slightly expanded context, from Ring Lardner: “Are you lost daddy I arsked tenderly. “Shut up he explained.” It seemed reasonable to wait for the blogs to calm, and then some. It took nearly two weeks, an eternity on the Ether. The topic is what was meant by the Tuesday offering of Los Angeles Times […]
This must be the way to get a couple of New Year’s resolutions accomplished: Start and finish early. It works, it has to work this time. On Dec. 26, My Beloved and I returned to Phase 1 of the South Beach Diet. By mid-month, I dropped nine pounds and relaxed into the just-a-little-carb Phase 2. […]
Lots of print publications remain confused on how to integrate the Internet most effectively. Even after a good decade of fantastic-yet-narrowing options, good ideas seem elusive. Then, there’s Gordo: I think a lot of traditional newspaper publishers say, ‘Wouldn’t it be great if one day we make as much money on our Web sites as […]