Jim Nabors is doing a Christmas concert here sometime soon. Apropos of nothing.

In January of 2003 I posted a measured rant on the Slate bulletin boards that I think is worth reproducing now in connection with my post at PressThink and in light of my continual bitching about the institutional amnesia of the . . . → Read More: Reprise, reprise, reprise

Jeff Jarvis at BuzzMachine has the scoop on Canadian efforts to infiltrate and corrupt our news-gathering organizations. Or, more precisely in this instance, our news-presenting organizations. The particular case even involves the apparent use of an alias. I pick up the Globe & Mail on the way back and find that John Roberts, the . . . → Read More: Porous Canadian borders threaten our precious bodily fluids

Josh Marshall posted this evening about the idea of making all federal legislation readily available for public scrutiny at least three days before a vote is scheduled. The notion seems so obvious that I can’t imagine no one has thought of it before now.

I’ve been as exercised as anyone by the increasing degree . . . → Read More: A novel idea: transparency in sausage-making

No doubt they’ll be clean soon, but meanwhile …

If you missed it, we took the liberty of preserving the item in question here. Note the “Browse Similar Items” link on the left of the page. On the original, the link led here.

Heads-up courtesy of . . . → Read More: Target has a drug problem

Every now and then I get to thinking nothing makes sense any more. Then I run across something like this, and I know I’m right. You come across on screen as one who doesn’t suffer fools gladly. Are you like that in real life?

I’m not sure I would d eosers ljeksakf t . . . → Read More: And in other news …

Hain’t we got all the fools in town on our side? And ain’t that a big enough majority in any town?

   —The King to the Duke, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Between now and January, the Bush administration will have to decide whether or not to take the last dignified exit from Iraq.

   . . . → Read More: The fools in town are switching sides

My piece on the herd instinct of malnourished political reporters is now up on Jay Rosen’s PressThink site. The general idea is that, not content with simply blowing coverage of existing stories, much of the political press went zombie-walking after the bogus “moral values” narrative while simultaneously rending their garments for being out of . . . → Read More: O come let us adore me

I should have a piece up on Jay Rosen’s PressThink site sometime soon. Rosen is the chair of New York University’s journalism department, and I’m seriously flattered that he’s allowing me to jump in on his blog.

Working on that piece and another one headed elsewhere hasn’t left me much time for posting here, . . . → Read More: Housekeeping notes