Our morning after pill
It’s good to see that New York’s tabloids had their priorities straight, the morning after Bob Schieffer’s foreign-policy debate! Meanwhile, in Middle America … the Des Moines Register gave its…
Why Iowa?
I’m a New Yorker with an affinity for Iowa (I subscribed to the Des Moines Register when I was 13 and have visited the state many times, including three summer…
In 2012, the power is in our hands
Blessings of health, happiness, work, love, understanding and conciliation, peace, prosperity, art, insight, knowledge, love of God and respect for the Earth which the Almighty’s entrusted in our care, respect…
Linotype’s 125th Birthday
Whielaw Reid, NY Tribune, 1886: “Ottmar, you’ve done it! You created a line of type!” “Happy type gone byte!”: @sodamncorporate…
Weiner’s roast hasn’t ended. Questions surround congressman’s story over lewd pic on Twitter.
Weinergate, indeed. After Anthony Weiner, the brash congressman from Brooklyn and Queens who’s a wannabe mayor of New York, tried to joke away Friday’s posting of a lewd photo on his Twitter…
Rep. Weiner tweets his wienie
UPDATES are posted at the bottom of this story. When Facebook tells you that your password’s been compromised … it’s probably a call to immediate action. Brooklyn’s Rep. Anthony Weiner…
Yesterday’s Men
This Phil Coulter tune — a few decades old, with an Irish twist — is obviously relevant to today’s America. Performed here by Celtic Thunder‘s George Donaldson. Thanks to Michael Libbie for bringing it…
Lara Logan
Those of us back in the US, covering whatever we cover, do so almost always under the cover of law. We may loose our jobs, or have an advertiser pull…
Bill O’Reilly to President Obama: “Does it disturb you that so many people hate you?”
Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly was relatively civil [by O'Reilly standards] to President Obama during his live 15-minute pre-game one-on-one. But O’Reilly can’t help himself — he was repetitively argumentative, stepping…