What’s the bigger story: Iraq versus Anna Nicole Smith?
You guessed it. See here for Mother Jones' tabulations. On MSNBC it was Anna Nicole Smith by a 7 to 1 ratio.
Holding the line on excessive materialistic displays in Pakistan?
You can read about it here, The Daily Times of Pakistan: ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court was moved on Tuesday against recent legislation allowing one-dish meals at weddings, with the contention that the law had reopened the door to wasteful expenses and weddings had become a financial burden for most people…
Schadenfreude, Part II
Heather Havrilesky of Salon is a gifted writer, indeed. She opens a recent article by discussing the delighted innocence of her baby girl, "my own happy tadpole, who just arrived on this overheated blue sphere four months ago, gazes at the branches of trees and feels the cold noses of…
It’s THAT Time of Year…Again
I haven't been posting much lately--deadlines on other things, etc.--but I'm working on a couple of fairly thorny ones. In the meantime, since it IS Super Bowl Sunday, I thought I might suggest a review of an older post of mine on the subject. Link is here: http://dangerousintersection.org/?p=402 I haven't…
What do you know about Garry Trudeau?
The reclusive artist behind the Doonesbury comic strip is interviewed for the Washington Post Magazine (here) in October 2006, and I only found it today. I figure that this fits neatly in with the recent theme of media issues.