Oct 29,2008
A reporter's job these days…
…is “to comfort the winsome and afflict the uncharismatic“, notes James Taranto after quoting some truly hagiographic coverage by the media.
Oct 29,2008
Um….yes?
Over at DCist, Sommer has been writing about the MPD’s policy of random searches on the DC metro system: So it’s a consent-based search, but if you refuse to be...
Oct 29,2008
Adventures with the Daily Mail
Perhaps it’s because I’m a bad person, but I took rare delight in this article about Bono, narcissist and overrated singer: His humanitarian campaigning has earnt him the nickname St...
Oct 28,2008
Postscript
Sonny points out that I was unclear in my earlier post: I’m talking about the WTC bombing of February 1993, hence the reference to attacking Afghanistan in 2000 or 2001....
Oct 28,2008
Re Richard Dawkins
Apropos Dan’s fine series of posts: …I shall be talking about God a great deal, and this is a word which offends unholy people just as badly as words like...