I’ve resigned myself to some things I will never fully fathom: the electoral college; women; Pokemon GO (a videogame that requires you to go outside and walk? That’s the opposite purpose of itself. That’s like a treadmill-powered Twinkie dispenser.). But I’m having real trouble with this concept, which I guess is more a question: …
Enough. Enough with the attempts to define news. Enough with the mock outrage over a lack of objectivity. Enough with pretending that “social” media is somehow different from its “mainstream” sibling. It isn’t. Make no mistake: They are siblings, if not identical twins. That we in the ancient media of print and television ever …
A horrible thought just occurred to me. You know how dogs sleep? Usually with their feet skipping along, to accompanying mini-yips. It’s really cute. But then I realized: We assume a dog is having a pleasant dream when we see that. Perhaps images of untrodden fields and unsniffed anuses. Yet my dog never acts …
As a lifelong reporter, my father lived in notepads. All journalists do. Dad, however, did some serious scribbling. You wouldn’t say he took copious notes because that would be a disservice to dad and the word. It doesn’t come close to dad’s style. He must have had thousands of notebooks. He kept every one. …
That Donald Trump pulled the U.S. from the Paris global warming accord was as inevitable as the rising sea. What is surprising is the rationale that punctuated the withdrawal — and that we in the press let it pass for logic. We would expect the right to applaud it. …
As a jalopy junkie (I’ve owned at least four dozen get-our-and-push models), I’ve had my share of license plates, most of them expired and registered to dead people to cut down on parking tickets. I’ve only owned two personalized plates, one intentionally. The first was a tag that came with a Porsche Boxster that was …
I’m lucky enough to have friends and a mother who suffer my theories, although I have no idea how gladly. There’s the Lift-and-Separate Theory of technology. The God-as-Deadbeat-Dad Theory of religion. And, of course, the Great Race War Theory of politics: the hypothesis that racial tensions can be quantifiably measured — so, to some degree, predicted …
Ok, so the past 18 months have been tough for liberals, Democrats, women, minorities, homosexuals, immigrants, the environment, the press and, in an overarching sense, intellectualism itself. But there’s an upside to the past year and a half. Consider what has flourished under the New World Order: Sports. It has been an unreal stretch for …
I just watched the umpteenth interview with an apoplectic reporter proclaiming the sky was falling (or, as I call it, Chicken Littling) after the latest rumor to circulate from the Trump administration: that he may deport all press to the Executive Office Building next door to the White House. To hear them, you’d think Trump …
The Hollywood Bowles 