New York Times public editor Daniel Okrent is a real breath of fresh air.
Here’s the headline to his last column: Is The New York Times a Liberal Newspaper?
His answer?
Of course it is.
It just gets more interesting.
I’ll get to the politics-and-policy issues this fall (I want to watch the campaign coverage before I conclude anything), but for now my concern is the flammable stuff that ignites the right. These are the social
My friend Anne Linehan, who’s quietly become one of the better bloggers in this fine city, calls attention to this article by Clifford Pugh.
I don’t find it particularly offensive (at least not by Comical standards), but I do wonder why they wasted the space.
About the only substance worth taking away from the piece is this quote:
“This is a watershed moment,” said David Sifrey, founder of Technorati, a service that tracks over 3.2 million
This isn’t generally a political blog, and this isn’t really a political post….
But as I watch Senator Kerry drone on (admittedly a bit less haughtily and monotously than usual), I just have one question:
Did Terry McAuliffe forget to pay the electric bill at the Fleet Center?
The nominee is DRIPPING for gawd’s sake.
Not pretty.
(07-30-2004 Update) Orrin Judd described it this way:
Second, at this point in his career it’s pointless to look for the
There’s been another collision with the Danger Train:
Houston police say they will ticket the man behind the wheel of a car grazed by a light rail train, Wednesday night.
Officers say the man made an illegal left turn in front of the train and just about lost his bumper in the process. Officially, there have now been 51 accidents involving light rail trains. METRO doesn’t count one collision which police determined was a suicide attempt.
At
They always seem to come in bunches, don’t they?
And they show no signs of stopping.
That’s right, there was another Danger Train collision:
An illegal left turn caused the 53rd accident involving Houston’s light-rail system since it began operating in November 2003, METRO officials told News2Houston.
A vehicle carrying two people made an illegal left turn around 9:45 a.m. Thursday, colliding with a train traveling south between Fannin and Dryden, according to officials.
Officials cited the driver