Jack Shafer of Slate eviscerates the New York Times Sunday Magazine cover story on sex slaves in America. (More at the Radosh Blog). Without rehashing everything, suffice to say that every question Shafer and Radosh pose sound exactly like the…
Solitude, a century of it
Maud blogs on one of my favorite novels, “100 Years of Solitude.”
Still going
An interesting look at staying in shape and extending the body’s expiration date. Interesting to me because I’m doing the same thing. On topic, sort of, because I found it at Ken Stone’s Master’s Track page.
Earth to Mr. Clifton:
Nobody’s buying that “trust us, we’re unbiased” line anymore. For more on this, see everything Jay Rosen has written in the past few months.
Whatever you do …
… don’t click on this link. It might be catching.
Adding comments to news stories
Here’s a story about the advantages of digital cameras from the BBC (thanks JD for the link). One thing I noted was that it allows reader comments at the end. Why isn’t every newspaper on earth doing this?