A Recipe for Keeping Newspapers Alive
Michael Socolow, a professor at Brandeis, serves up a recipe for success, and explains some of why newspapers are in so much trouble in this article from the Baltimore Sun. “Yet other key, but too often ignored, issues in the history of the newspaper business have played a role in […]
Cindy’s Impeachment Tour Stops in Crawford
Tom Engelhardt writes on tomdispatch.com about the phenomena of the Soldier’s mother who is haunting Bush on his long Texas vacation. “And then, if matters weren’t bad enough, there was Cindy Sheehan. She drove to Crawford with a few supporters in a caravan of perhaps a dozen vehicles and an […]
The War Is Over on the Happiest Day in History
From Garrison Keillor’s wonderful poetry and writing website Writer’s Almanac came this today. “Today is the 60th anniversary of the day on which President Harry Truman announced that the Second World War had come to an end. You might argue that more human beings were happy on this day in […]
Under Size Me? Losing Weight at Mickie D’s
Today’s Boston Globe incuded this Associated Press story: One person went so far as to make her own independent film about dieting at McDonald’s. “Me and Mickey D” follows Soso Whaley, of Kensington, N.H., as she spends three 30-day periods on the diet. She dropped from 175 to 139 pounds, […]
Americans to Bush: We’re Outta There!
Frank Rich writes that the war is already over, but President Bush doesn’t know it yet. “What lies ahead now in Iraq instead is not victory, which Mr. Bush has never clearly defined anyway, but an exit (or triage) strategy that may echo Johnson’s March 1968 plan for retreat in […]
Gross Spam as "Comments" on my Blog!
I just opened my email to find comments posted about yesterday’s post about Chinese Sweet Wormwood. BUT IT WAS SPAM! Some freakin’ auto loan outfit put up ‘comments’ pitching new car loans….in the guise of blog comments. This is a sinister development, one which I hope can be stopped. I […]
There’s Something About Sweet Wormwood
Howard W. French writes in today’s NY Times about the acres and acres of a new crop, called qinqhat, or sweet wormwood, that’s become a huge cash producer in China–Because Novartis is making anti-malarial drugs with its active ingredient. “Even peasants closely associated with these efforts, however, say they are […]
