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She Would Have Turned 60 Today
I wrote this in 2010, but have not published it until today, February 28, 2020. I wrote the headline today, but I have not otherwise updated time references. Twenty-seven years ago, on October 16, 1983, a deeply troubled young woman let go of her last hold on life, and tumbled off the Golden Gate Bridge.…
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Dictionaries: A Modern-Day Morality Play
“If you don’t look up the words you don’t know, you don’t deserve the beauty of literature,” my teacher said. Four decades later I still feel the lash in her voice.
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Seeking More Muslim Heroes
Unlike the thugs who killed him, Merabet had assimilated into French society, while retaining his Muslim identity.
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Maplewood NJ, Pop. 23,000, Now Has
FourFIVE Competing Local Websites(Don’t miss my followup post about the true 800-pound gorilla of the story. Also, I tweaked this post’s headline and added a substantive Update at the end.) Suddenly the Maplewood hyperlocal web neighborhood is crowded. The mighty NY Times today launched two local websites, each staffed with a full-time, veteran Times reporter. One site is…
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“Hide the Decline”: Birth of a Blog Post, and Credit Where Credit is Due
If you think global warming is probably “settled science,” but you’re willing to read one article to give skeptics a chance to change your mind, read this remarkable indictment, published all the way last Tuesday, while the pixels of the original leak were still quivering.
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Sullivan’s Corporate Masters Stab Him in the Back on Newsweek’s Cover
Newsweek, a once-important news magazine now owned by a liberal blogging site, has a cover this week offering me the opportunity to let Andrew Sullivan, a once-independent blogger, explain to me why I am “dumb.” Grateful though I am for Newsweek’s efforts to improve the tenor of our national discourse, I’m going to pass.
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“Catfight” Post Sparks a Sullivalanche
Further info about traffic on the Catfight post that sparked today’s Sullivalanche… The full daily stats have not been posted to my Google Analytics “dashboard” yet, but it turns out that doing a customized search for a time period pulls out data that is more current than the dashboard. The graphic above shows my total…
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Michelle: "This Is Why I Love This Country"
Kevin Drum of Mother Jones (see, I read lefties, too) describes NRO’s The Corner as “a peek into the conservative id,” which is a great description. I don’t agree with everything I read in The Corner, but it’s the first place I turn for a (usually) thoughtful conservative perspective on breaking news. Despite a few…
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How “Blue” is New Jersey — and for How Long?
I market my blog as the musings of “a red-state voter in a deep blue state.” It’s a catchy line, and it lends itself to a jazzy 125×125 logo — created by the Web Goddess, naturally. But sometimes I’ve wondered if New Jersey really is as “deep blue” as, say, Massachusetts or Vermont. (I’m sure…