Dear dictionary people, First off, thank you. You’re not like those punk bitches at Oxford Dictionary, who succumb to pressure annually to add new official words, which is like giving someone who can’t ride a bike your car keys; you’re over-arming. Particularly now, when the world’s last remaining superpower is led by a man …
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A special factslap edition, particularly for presidents from shithole frontal lobes: Haiti is the second oldest independent nation in the Western Hemisphere, after the United States. The place where Hitler killed himself is now a children’s playground. Jackie Chan trains his stuntmen and pays their medical bills out of pocket. Cacao plants are …
The Pew Research Center just released a study that must awaken newspaperpeople in cold sweats, or urine: 81% of Americans get their news from a screen — either online outlets or social media (a putrid redundancy) sites. That doesn’t even include TV. Of the stragglers left over who get their news from papers or …
First: How is it that Donald Trump has not responded to rapper Eminem’s scathing video beat down of the administration, in which he told his fans that if they were supporters of the Pumpkin-in-Chief, they should stop following buying his music? It was a rare non-response (which has become as much a tea leaf …
(photo by The Washington Examiner) bait-and-switch noun the action (generally illegal) of advertising goods that are an apparent bargain, with the intention of substituting inferior or more expensive goods. “a bait-and-switch scheme” The term was first used in 1962, to describe an ascending advertising strategy. Ad folks also coined the term “Mad Men,” one of …
If complaining is an art, I am Picasso. If it’s bullshittery, I am Ferdinand. So please excuse my latest deposit, whatever its contents. I can’t help myself. But why the oxygen-depleted approach to Hurricane Harvey when it comes to a connection with global warming? Has this somehow become a political issue, too? Last night, …
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 …
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. …
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