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Category Archives: Just thinking out loud
Crazy like a Weiner dog!
Comments OffOn May 24, 2011 Anthony Weiner rose to speak in the US House of Representatives on the issue of Medicare and was basically told to sit down and shut up by the GOP chair. You can watch the video here … Continue reading
The march upwards of health insurance costs
7 CommentsI did a quick exercise on my health insurance costs and assumed that I would be keeping the same policy over the next fifteen years until I make it to Medicare age. I looked over the increases over the past … Continue reading
The definitive difference between a real journalist and your sorry blogger butt
8 CommentsMaybe I’ve read one too many rants from know-it-all bloggers about how nobody really needs journalists and how journalism is a dead dying industry, but it really hit home today about the real difference between journalists and blogger know-it-alls. Above … Continue reading
#TwitterMakesYouStupid – a New York Times challenge
3 CommentsLast night, Bill Keller, Executive Editor, The New York Times tweeted out: “#TwitterMakesYouStupid. discuss” And of course, this started up a firestorm among the twits, many of whom were not particularly skilled with using the grammar of the English language … Continue reading
A thousand words in a million keystrokes
5 CommentsThis morning, I pulled the dust cover off the old manual typewriter, rolled a sheet of paper into the carriage and typed something. I wanted to see what it felt like again to be a “real writer.” In truth, it … Continue reading
Fact v truth – a #letsblogoff
6 CommentsI once heard someone say that “The truth belongs to he who tells the story first and best.” I think there is some truth to that. As I was writing this, I was listening to a speech by yet another … Continue reading
Make it work; why newspaper artists make the best designers
10 Comments“Just set your resolution high on your monitor, scale it up, take a screenshot and slap it in there,” I said to the panicked marketing artist who was stressing over the jpg of a 1X3 benevolent ad she was given … Continue reading