"I Remember by Reading" Says Chick Lit Plagiarist
Chip Scanlan, writes in the Poynter.org website about Harvard’s now infamous “Chick-Lit Plagiarist” Kaavya Viswanathan. “When accusations of plagiarism began to spread this week about a hot new novelist — a 19-year-old Ivy Leaguer who’d pulled down a reputed $500,000 two-book contract and a DreamWorks movie deal to boot — […]
Stopped by the Blue Lights of Hadley
So I’m tooling down Route 47, and it is a lovely day, about 83 or so….farm fields rolling by, coffee in the cup holder, en route to the bank. Around a corner… COP!…I brake, a little too obviously, and he tools past me. Down a ways, I think I’m clear, […]
Girls with Big Boobs Get Battleship Bras
The Mincemeat Vixen writes a saucy blog called “Not Well Planned.” Great stuff from Ontario. “Last summer I went to a fancy bra store to buy a bra, asked for a C cup and the woman laughed at me. She put me in a changeroom and started bringing me Double-D […]
It’s a Great Day for Smoothies at the Cafe
Today is such a beautiful day you would think the sidewalks would be crowded with strollers, and people would flock into the cafe. While the weather is indeed in the low ’80s, producing near euphoria in our New England populace, we are slow up at the cafe…but that gives us […]
No One in NY is Impressed That You’re British…
The Press Gazette in the UK ran a story about what it’s like for a British reporter to work in the Big Apple. Carey says her experience on publications such as Star magazine and the National Enquirer taught her that American journalism isn’t just Sex and the City’s Carrie trotting […]
There’s Big Money–in Roads
Transurban Group, Australia’s second- biggest toll road owner, agreed to buy Virginia’s Pocahontas Parkway for $611 million, gaining its first U.S. highway. Bloomberg had the story on line. “The Melbourne-based Transurban bought the rights to manage, operate and maintain the 8.8 mile (14 kilometer) highway known as State Route 895 […]
Minutemen Say No to Al Jezeera TV
The Minuteman Civil Defense Corps, an anti-illegal immigration organization that patrols the border in Arizona, has refused another interview request by Al-Jazeera TV, calling it a “terrorist TV station.”Little Green Footballs had the story. “The Minutemen volunteers, many of them Vietnam, Korean and World War II veterans, said they would […]
God I Wish I Didn’t Resemble a Terrorist Sympathizer
“The first time it happened was in 2002. A friend saw a picture of former University of South Florida professor and alleged terrorism supporter Sami Al-Arian and did a double take because he thought it was me. He thought the resemblance was funny. I didn’t.” Bob Andelman, left, writes in […]