Football and American Faith
Sean MurphyLots of well-deserved buzz surrounding this timely and important story by Dave Sheinin (read via the Washington Post here and more from the series here and here). This entire triumph…
VCLA PRESENTS: THE PUBLISHING INDUSTRY IN THE 21ST CENTURY
Question: What is the state of the publishing industry circa 2019? Answer: It’s complicated. So…how to get a handle on what’s going on, including what’s happened and what’s going to happen?…
Washing Dishes as Antidote for Apathy (Revisited)
Help wanted sign on the Mexican border. Tom Sietsema, the excellent food critic for The Washington Post, wrote a fantastic piece about dishwashers (in general) and his experience, as a dishwasher,…
Washing Dishes as Antidote for Apathy
Tom Sietsema, the excellent food critic for The Washington Post, wrote a fantastic piece about dishwashers (in general) and his experience, as a dishwasher, on 8/7/17. I highly recommend this piece…
Murphy’s Law, Vol. One: A Primer
In this collection of essays, reviews and ruminations, best-selling author Sean Murphy attempts to tackle the world in writing, one topic at a time. Selecting a sampling of his most…
“I’m An Idea Man…”
Predictably, that bastion of sober, probing and reasonable analysis, The Washington Post (more on my relationship with that rag here, here and here) has surveyed our political moment and is ready…
Richard Cohen, Charles Krauthammer, Salon.com and Me
Props to Salon.com for doing some heavy lifting in the service of exposing hackery this week, courtesy of their amusing --and recommended-- "Hack Thirty" feature. In a mild upset, they…
Oh, and reducing the debt, too.
An ostensibly rhetorical question I read (and get asked) quite often these days is "Why bother?" Why bother getting invested in politics? Why bother reading all those papers and blogs…
Charles Krauthammer is an Immoral Cretin
First, let's try to get a handle on what constitutes the GOP braintrust as it's currently constructed. In short, it's sort of like the Three Stooges. No really. First, you…
Richard Cohen Is A Clown
Cohen strikes again. What an asshole. See for yourself, here. Back then, a WP poll gave George W. Bush an approval rating of 92 percent, which meant that almost no…