…read this, and quit yer bitchin’.Update: or this
It seems that the press is taking a beating on pages other than page one or the editorial page. On a website about Macintosh computers, Random Maccess, there was an opinion piece by Chuck LaTounous that tears into the poor media coverage. This isn’t the usual gripe about to little coverage, but…What’s far more disturbing […]
Various music artists, including Metallica and the Red Hot Chili Peppers, refuse to have their songs sold over Apple’s iTunes music store (Reuters via MacCentral “Our artists would rather not contribute to the demise of the album format,” said Mark Reiter, with Q Prime Management Co., which manages the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Metallica and […]
First, a bit of history with “The Day New York Declared Its Independence” about how New York City residents reacted to hearing of the Declaration.It involves the tearing down of a statue of the rejected leader, and it’s immediate beheading and disfiguring… I imagine it was not unlike the festivities after the fall of Baghdad. […]
Of being a black conservative, in the Boston Globe. Jackson compares Thomas to a gangbanger gunning down innocents. He calls him a “Tom” (as in “Uncle Tom”). He makes no allowance for the idea that disagreeing with affirmative action may not be motivated by racism. Here’s an idea: let’s actually debate the issue at hand […]
In the days before the U.S. entered World War Two, we were not ignorant of the plight of the rest of the world, but were debating what actions we should take, if any at all, in relation to the ongoing war.Eventually Pearl Harbor would force our hand but earlier in 1941, this debate was very […]
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James Lileks bleats today about unions, but the coolest thing was how he slipped in the phrase to “pull a Patrick McGoohan.”I knew there was a reason I liked the guy.Be seeing you,