Muddled Musings
From WDET Detroit Public Radio December 8: Does giving something a name give it power? That’s what WDET wondered in the latest episode of its podcast Created Equal. It examined the origins of a crime first identified in the Motor City: carjacking. The term was invented in 1991 after Detroit News crime reporter Scott Bowles …
I have been a police reporter for 15 years, and a film reporter for another decade. So I feel comfortable committing the following double heresy: All the President’s Men is a lousy movie. As a book, it’s poetry. As a story, it’s the gold standard for every aspiring reporter. But, strictly from an entertainment …
I’ve never really had an issue with clowns. Krusty is one of my favorite Simpsons characters. The Joker is my favorite villain from the realm of superheroes (I even have a Halloween mask from The Dark Knight). As a boy, I was one of Bozo‘s faithful TV servants (along with Bozo’s magician sidekick, Marshall Brodien, …
There’s an idiom in contemporary politics that goes, approximately, like this: Republicans wake up angry; Democrats wake up sad. It would seem an inescapable truism, particularly given the rancor that freights this presidential campaign. While it will go largely unnoticed, Mike Pence did something extraordinary Sunday: He promised the nation that his party would peacefully …
