Month: March 2005

Despite Ted Rall’s eloquent essay against non-credentialed bad guy bloggers, here’s another critique of journalistic technique. UPI’s Michael Kirkland, writing about the Supreme Court case on the Ten Commandments, reduces the debate to a simple binary opposition: On one side are those who say government has a role in promoting morality; on the other are…

I spotted this on Fark.com: After years of referring to Osama bin Laden with the less-than-cuddly term “militant,” Agence France-Presse sees the error of its ways and downgrades him to “dissident“ So he’s Noam Chomsky now? I reckon ‘the responsibility of intellectuals’ has changed some since 1966 …

Glenn Reynolds doesn’t think Alabama’s law criminalizing dildos deserves respect. Well, it’s my policy here, if not to literally bend over backwards, to at least attempt to be fair to both sides. So I feel obligated to give the law the respect it deserves. And the fact is, Alabama’s legislators have made it a crime…

This afternoon I attended a sort of impromptu reunion with high school buddies, which took place in a professional sound studio in Conshohocken, PA. The owner collects and restores vintage organs, like this Wurlitzer that they’ve named “Tut”: Speaking of vintage, the next photo shows a closeup “head shot” of a 2″ reel to reel…