Category Archives: Popular Culture

Congressional Republicans think Federal judges should always vote to preserve life – unless the lives in question are on Death Row. Rush Limbaugh thinks all teenagers have oral sex every day. Either Rush is wrong, or I had the worst adolescence in history. Michael Jackson thinks his case is going very well. Now, remind meContinue reading “Bloggers vs. Journalists, Rush Limbaugh, Scott Savol and Other Things to Think About”

The terrible, private, family affair that has become the Terri Schiavo “right-to-life” debate is near its end. But its repercussions are just beginning. Congress, still feeling woozy from the 2004 elections and in the mood to spend some hard-bought political capital, turned a family matter that had been litigated for a decade into a nationalContinue reading “If Terri Schiavo were a Death Row Inmate, Would We Still Care?”

So much has been written about the death of journalism and the hypocrisy of PR that the collected work from the Blogosphere alone makes the Manhattan phone book look like a flyer for a grade school fundraiser. The fact that journalists and PR people write most of the copy is as funny as it isContinue reading “Journalism is Not Dead, PR Will Survive, and Matt Lauer is (Probably) Not Gay”

Chris Rock has a great bit about people who are proud of things they are supposed to do. “I take care of my kids,” he says, mimicking a proud mother. “You’re supposed to take of your kids, dammit!” he screams back in mock disbelief. The U.S. Supreme Court today did the same thing as thatContinue reading “Supreme Court Ruling on Capital Punishment Doesn’t Go Far Enough”