Wall Street Journal newsies are stickin’ it to the Man, who’s trying to impose a lot of stuff on ’em they’d just as soon not have to put up with. Among the union’s get-tough tactics: The angry union members have…
100 interesting things about Autumn
82. I didn’t have a Japanese Japanese teacher until college. (This is one of those 100-things-about-me lists that are flaming death in the hands of an inept writer. Since Autumn isn’t, it’s fun stuff.)
All Arnie, all the time
Just as everybody (barring major surgery) has a spleen, everybody has one to vent over the election of Arnold Schwarzenegger as California governor. A sampling from the usual Prints the Chaff suspects: Off-topic, a natural-born arbitrator The only thing both…
Link payback
These are bloggers who’ve linked to Prints the Chaff but aren’t included in my current lists of links. I’m going to add a “link payback” category and add these names to it. David Akin, Canadian biz reporter. baileybug, Florida amateur…
More cold type tales
I’m amassing people’s favorite stories of the transition from hot type to cold type back in the mid- to late ’70s. (Here’s the first item). Here’s one sent along by John McClelland of the journalism faculty at Roosevelt University in…
Alert the Food Desk
Food is not safe as long as you pick it up within five seconds of its hitting the floor. From snopes.com: Drop a cookie onto a clean floor, and you could eat it with impunity. Drop it onto a contaminated…