- Newspapers Broke My Heart. Will Citizen Journalism Heal It? (Trent Seibert, NewsTechZilla) We have a nifty little new-media effort going on in Houston, and Trent Seibert gets more attention from Instapundit than from locals. WTF?!
- Rockets fall to 76ers 104-96 for third straight loss (Jonathan Feigen, Houston Chronicle)
Stung by the latest loss and the different variety of embarrassments it brought them, the Rockets thought back to what they once were.
That’s the lede from a major sports league beat writer at a big newspaper. And the sad thing is, that’s about par for the course for Feigen, and about par for the course for the Chron sports section, which seemingly has few editors who are fluent in English.
- Kubiak should have final say in hiring (John McClain, Houston Chornicle
Well, fine, but nobody disagrees. The GM is basically an admin assistant to Gary Kubiak since Bob McNair dumped Casserly/Capers and decided to emulate the Denver strong coach model. This column might be relevant to Dallas and Jerruh, but not to Houston. Weak. - Gas Station Delicacies at Ekko's Greek-American Deli (Robb Walsh, Houston Press)
As for the other items on the Greek Combo, I am guessing that the dolmas, or stuffed grape leaves, came out of a can, and that the tiropitas, or cheese pies, and the spanakopita, or spinach pies, were previously frozen.
Guessing?! That’s weak.
Is this just the week that professional Houston writers and editors all phone it in? - Kubiak fires 2 good men, shows he still has learning to do (SportsJustice)
RJ goes to bat for one of his buddies from the glory days of the Redskins AND calls the current Texans’ GM insecure. How long before he edits/deletes this blog post? - From KHOU to sex expert? (Mike McGuff)
And sex expert on MeMo’s pages. Dumbed down and trashed up — that’s the Chron star section! And I’m sure it’s somehow the fault of The Man. - How the city hurts your brain… and what you can do about it (Jonah Lehrer, Boston Globe) The lack of synchronization of traffic lights post-Ike is really starting to hurt my brain.
- The TTC is dead! Long live the ICP! (Intermodality) Great. But while so much of the criticism of the TTC is valid, the fact is that it WAS a plan to finance the needed expansion of Texas transportation. So what plan do critics offer? Or is the plan simply not to fund infrastructure improvements necessary to sustain Texas population and job growth?
- Prague airport sets all-time passenger record (AP) Callie and I helped contribute to history in 2008! Woo!
- Do not tie the markets – free them (Vaclav Klaus, FT) I love the Czechs!
- Blog: Tuesday, January 6th (PatGray.com) Unintentionally entertaining.
- The mystification of change: On the media's game of good and evil (James Bowman, The New Criterion)
- Reading the Signs: Gestural politics and disturbing reality at a Paris Metro stop (Theodore Dalrymple, City Journal)
- Like a Virgin: The Press Take On Teenage Sex (William McGurn, WSJ)
- Invest in Abortion (David Freddoso, NRO)
- The Coming Rift (Abe Greenwald, Commentary)
- Senate 'spectacle' goes according to script (John Kass, Chicago Tribune)
- Obama has to get Burris to give it up (Mark Brown, Chicago Sun-Times) What in his career suggests he will buck The Chicago Way?
- The Risks in Obama's Ambitions (Michael Gerson, WaPo)
- There is only one alternative to the dollar (David Hale, FT)
- Obama and the Democratic brand (Jonah Goldberg, USA Today)
- Turning Off the Gas: Russia uses energy as a weapon, again (Reuben Johnson, Weekly Standard)
- Gazprom's Lessons (WSJ Europe)
- The battle of the oligarchs behind the gas dispute (Jerome Guillet & John Evans, FT)
- The decline of Israel's leadership (Alvaro Vargas Llosa, RCP)
- An Endgame for Israel (Bret Stephens, WSJ)
- The Confidence War (David Brooks, NYT)
- It's a war process (Anne Applebaum, WaPo)
1 comments On Linkpost: 01/07/09
I still can’t figure out what, exactly, Ed and Pat are going to be fighting against? (Or for for that matter)
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