One of the fascinating things about blogging is how little it pays. Like, zippo. If you’ve worked for corporate media as much as I have, that hurts. You feel like, Wow, I used to get $3 a word, or 50…
I hung out with my parents this weekend and whenever I do I think about how assimilated I am. I grew up in a very Jewish family, now I’m like what we used to call a Waspy Jew. I can…
The freeing of Jill Carroll (a joyful moment, need I add) is a reminder that there is no democracy in Iraq. Democracy depends on free speech and a vigorous press—what kind of democracy is it where reporters are afraid to…
When will Hollywood do the Zane Grey story? A friend lent me a copy of the new bio of the western writer by Thomas Pauly, Zane Grey: His Life, His Adventures, His Women, http://www.press.uillinois.edu/f05/pauly.htmland it’s shocking. Grey was a tremendous…
Running out of soap is a bummer.
This is only my seventh entry or so and I’m already complaining! Blogging is slavery. Your mind is attached to the computer, you have to always be thinking of clever responses to stray things you see on TV or the…
Antonin Scalia is determined to make his private reputation as a hothead his public image. The private reputation as a bully has long been whispered. (It’s all through Joan Biskupic’s bio of Sandra Day O’Connor (S.D.O: How the First Woman…