All The News That Gives You Fits
I get lots and lots of respect these days. I get called sir wherever I go. I notice it because when I was younger, I didn t hear it much except from people who were trying to sell me something. I certainly never heard it in a newsroom, definitely not from people who worked for me. [ ]
No, it does not refer to the nation, or the U.S. Senate, or South Carolina, or the planet. Or the Red Sox record (After that amazing, record-setting month, they ve lost the last three games to teams who absolutely should NOT be beating them. But enough about that. I m trying not to think about it.) It [ ]
I ve mentioned the awful set of choices being laid before us in this hasty primary to replace the late Lindsey Graham on the November ballot. Ever since I wrote and posted that, the offal of various varieties has been raining down upon us. How about those foolish scraps of mail on top above, especially the [ ]
I had occasion this morning to revisit something from my linguistics class this spring, and it almost choked me to death. I m 72, and while I ve had a lot of kind of scary asthma attacks in my life, some of them involving laughter such as when I was a kid and my uncle (who [ ]
Last night, my uncle asked me if he had to vote today. He was worried that he did,, because he didn t know of anyone running in the special GOP primary to replace Lindsey Graham on the November ballot that he could possibly vote for. He made me panic for a moment. I was pretty sure [ ]
Once, I was a hard-news guy. Strictly hard news. I was ready and eager to cover almost any disaster that befell my fellow humans fire, murder, kidnapping, bank robbery. Even as an editor, I d desert the newsroom and rush out to the scene to see if my reporters needed a hand covering it. And [ ]
I think the blog is back up and functioning normally, but let s test it out with a quick VFP! U.S. Strikes Iran as Fighting Reignites Across Region And here we go, on and on. You may want to take note of the sidebar to that lede story in the NYT: Trump Encounters a More [ ]
OK, by doing some weird work-arounds, I managed to post that last item. But I doubt you can comment on it. Even I can t comment on it. So I ll try to get GoDaddy on the phone and see if they can fix these things. Which will likely take me hours. I ll let y all know if [ ]
EDITOR S NOTE: Still having serious technical problems with the blog, but I m going to try to post a short one as an experiment America Magazine notes that while most popes refer to Scripture or other church documents in their missives, Pope Leo branches out: Sometimes popes go rogue. Pope Francis liked to reference the English [ ]
OK, no more Homer for the moment. Let s move on. It s been awhile since I ve done one of these, and I expect it to be harder than it used to be, but here goes Man told he d have to pay $2.4 million for school pollution records OK, this one grabbed me. Usually, an agency [ ]