Month: September 2003

When blogging seems like a circle jerk

I’m writing this stuff down so I’ll have stuff to say at the ACES convention, to save my loyal readers from having to sit in on my session. So, here’s another observation about blogging: Say you go to Matt Welch’s…

Never pole vault alone

Ken Stone has a post that tells why. This link hasn’t much to do with newspaper editing but a lot to do with the coolness of blogging. I check all my editors’ blogs for links every day or so. Ken’s…

No posts today…

… got other fish to fry. Should be back tomorrow with more scintillating linkage.

Share the wealth

If you did something you’re proud of, click on “comments” and pop it in there. Or send me an e-mail and I’ll add it to the page when I get a spare moment.

Bleat reversal

The other day I whined about something I did wrong; now I can aggravate my carpal tunnel patting myself on the back for doing something right. It was a small detail but it’s the kind of thing that causes people…

Useful fact about the Amish

Young males traditionally throw tomatoes at passing vehicles. And in the grand American tradition of wise use of firearms, an Amish man will be shotgunned to death for said transgressions.

Obligatory Krugman link

What gets me about Paul Krugman is how brilliant he is, and yet how often he oversimplifies complex topics. Nevertheless he does coin the occasional zinger. I liked this one especially. “There’s a confusion between objectivity and even-handedness, they are…

We take all the Washington Post bylines we can get

And if that means writing about cats, well, hey, how many of the rest of you are getting your stuff into the Post Style section? Above link is desgined to, hopefully, send some cheer to the proprietress of Nonsense Verse,…