Tonight riding home on the Mass Pike, I listened to VB, filling in on the Howie Carr show. The topic was the recent story about Vladimir Putin. Meeting with Patriots owner Bob Kraft and Rupert Murdoch in Russia, Putin was handed Kraft’s new Superbowl ring, studded with hundreds of diamonds—and […]
Sitting in the front room of the Dolphin Guest House, thinking about driving in Nantucket. Like my esteemed peers before me, Russell Baker and David Halberstam both have both railed about the size of people’s vehicles on this little rock. Whether you believe that large SUV sales are down, bloated […]
Watching the F/X channel. One of the channels you have to pay more than $4.95 per month for, hence not in my line-up in Deerfield. But here in Nantucket, I got to view Dennis Leary’s surprise hit ‘Rescue Me.’ The show is well done, really good dialogue, and sharply defined […]
Michael Mayo writes with admiration about Jimmy Breslin, in the Sun Sentinel. He gave us all a good tongue-lashing Saturday, and a lot of people nodded their heads in agreement. He ripped newspapers for losing “their backbone and their nerve,” ripped writers for their timidity and boringness, ripped George W. […]
Last night on Nantucket I decided to head out of town. So I parked my bike and took a shuttle bus out to Madaket. Madaket doesn’t have much to it, a big boatyard, some fine homes, and a gorgeous harbor. But it does have the Westender, the bar where the […]
PJ O’Rourke stands out as one of the most articulate writers on the scene. Here is an interview with him from PR Week, about reporting and the public view of reporters. O’Rourke: If you would have told me 30 years ago that journalism could get worse, I would have called […]
This from USA Today “For instance, the technology could have a profound impact on garbage. Never again would you have to sort recyclables from other garbage. Just throw it all together. At a garbage facility, trucks could dump their loads on a conveyor belt that goes past an RFID reader, […]
Lawrence, Kansas is a liberal town, with a leg up on the internet enabled home news experience. The publishers of the local paper there were clever, they own the company that puts in the cable tv and high speed internet wires. So they have an 80% cable coverage, and have […]
Tina Brown used to edit Joe Klein’s stories when she was at Vanity Fair, and recently columned in the Washington Post about his new anti-Hillary tome. She knows him, and thus is qualified to judge what’s behind this book, full of weird and wacky assertions about the former first couple. […]
Some things you are going to hear more about…and you heard about them here first. Reporting from the Dolphin Hotel, Nantucket. Europe is all abuzz about the Polish Plumber. A publicity campaign featuring a hunky Polish Plumber is a jab at comments in France expressing fears that plumbers and other […]
A chickadee with a leg band. CNN Today in a Reuter’s story about the calls of Chickadees…and what they mean “If you ever go out and are hearing a chickadee making a really long string of “D” notes on a call — six or eight or even 10 — you […]