Annals of Compensation
There’s a Lot of Good Thinking Here Re. How Much Journalists Should Be Compensated for their Work. Except, Replace ‘Journalist’ with ‘IBanker’ [...]
Journalism
My More-Talented Friends, Quiverfull Edition
Late this, but I’ve just finished Kathryn Joyce’s very fine book, Quiverfull: Inside the Christian Patriarchy Movement. The book is the end product of several [...]
‘Face the Nation’, What’s Good for the Goose Edition
To those who say that now our enemies aren’t going to abide by the Geneva Conventions: They will, if they know there is going to be retribution. —John McCain, who favors [...]
Today in New Websites You Should Definitely Add to Your Reader
The Awl, a Balk/Sicha joint, looks [...]
Today in Journalism that Will One Day Make a Great Movie Starring Charlyne Yi
Doree Shafrir’s Observer account of Kari Farrell, the Hipster Grifter, is [...]
Today in Amazing News Stories from the Commonwealth of Massachussetts
From the Berkshire Eagle: PITTSFIELD – A woman who allegedly intended to artificially inseminate her wife with her brother’s semen has been charged with domestic [...]
2000 Called, and Wants Its Ideas Back
Time Inc.’s Ann Moore on why all you deadbeats out there should pay up: “Who started this rumour that all information should be free and why didn’t we [...]
This Just In: ‘The District’ Episode 2
Nwk’s team brings another fun installment of our MTV/DC show more about "This Just In: ‘The District’ Episode 2", posted with [...]
Oh, Really? OK, that Totally Makes Sense
Today from the Wall Street Journal’s Op-Ed Page: The real reason people criticise Bush is because he won in [...]
In Which Jim Fallows Earns My Undying Admiration and Respect
Re. the constant use of the term “Team of Rivals” as applied to an Obama cabinet: Nothing against Doris Kearns Goodwin, who in prehistoric times was my professor [...]
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