Ahh the things you can find out while trolling the ‘Net. According to various British news media reports, the crew of the fishing boat “Oceania”, out of the town of Blyth, blocked emergency radio frequencies for hours while they watched an erotic film on their shipboard television. Unfortunately, the crew […]
Why did we jump headlong into supporting a war in Iraq? Bob Norman of the Broward-Palm Beach New Times lists his top five co-conspiracists who made us believe in the cause. *Thomas Friedman: “He’s like a mouse on a sinking ship, running from nook to nook as the water comes […]
Once again the pace is picking up here at the Computer Cleaners/GoNOMAD office. We’ve committed to moving four buildings up, to an old fashioned storefront with big bay windows, space for five public computers, more desks, more storage, and parking in the back. We are going to open the GoNOMAD […]
Barbara Walters has transcended the role of television show host to that of an icon, a decider….now that she has retired, we only see her on special occasions, like last night. She presented the top ten most fascinating people….and made us wait until the very end to know that her […]
Iowa’s rich topsoil and climate have nourished some of the nation’s most plentiful corn and soybean crops. Tyler O’Brien wants to learn more about their influence on rotting corpses. {Associated Press} “A biological anthropology professor at the University of Northern Iowa, O’Brien envisions turning some prime Iowa pasture into a […]
Chicago Magazine ran a profile on a writer who is often more famous than his movie star subjects, Roger Ebert. Here’s a bit about the olden daze. “After work, the gathering place in those days was a bar called O’Rourke’s, a hangout with the look of a shabby Irish pub. […]
Just weeks after voters struck down plans for a new monorail, a design glitch and a communication mishap immobilized the old one. Seattle’s PI reported today. Like conjoined twins, the Red and Blue trains remained frozen on the track above Fifth Avenue and Olive Way after the two sideswiped each […]
The following cautionary tale must surely rate in the top five of “most embarrassing things that can happen to you in public – ever”. According to UK tabloid the Sun, a 33-year-old Welsh housewife ended up in hospital after wearing Ann Summers vibrating Passion Pants to her local Asda supermarket […]
Columnist Neil Steinberg just lived through the ultimate publicity and personal nightmare: He got drunk, slapped his wife, and ended up in jail and in rehab. His Chicago Sun-times come-back column promised he’d pull no punches, sober or not. “Some readers expressed concern that sobriety will wreck my acerbic view […]
Edward Wasserman is Knight professor of journalism ethics at Washington and Lee University. He wrote a commentary in the Miami Herald today about the newspaper business and other doomed species. “The Internet does threaten some revenue franchises, especially classifieds. But it also offers a new way to reach audiences by […]