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Seriously, Newsweek?
Must be the silly season for magazine covers. First Time magazine sports a bare-breasted mom nursing her three-year-old, and now Newsweek has declared Obama “The First Gay President.” The race to the bottom has really heated up, hasn’t it? Decades-old highly respected news magazines venturing into the realm of shock and misrepresentation, all to generate … Continue reading
Time cover sinks to new low
For decades Time magazine has been America’s go-to news magazine. But their May 21 issue, due on newsstands next week, features what may be their most blatantly sensationalistic cover ever: Talk about pandering to the lowest common denominator. Oh sure, there are millions of women out there who breastfeed their babies, and a lot of … Continue reading
Myth attribution: Chief Seattle and Ted Perry
(Updated April 22, 2012 at 3:50 pm MDT) I have a great respect for and love of native American Indian philosophy and religion, so it was deeply disappointing to learn that the quotation in my post It’s Earth Day (a re-post of Earth Day 2011) is not from Chief Seattle. This was brought to my … Continue reading
NYT raises paywall, reduces free access
The online New York Times has a problem, as does virtually every other print publication that has been forced by the advance of technology to develop an online presence. The problem is how to make readers pay to see content. Subscribers and newsstand sales have been a significant chunk of income for print publications, although … Continue reading
Is the Iranian theocracy doomed?
In the June 29 issue of Newsweek, Jon Meacham wrote of religion and politics in “Theocracies Are Doomed. Thank God.” Any time you put religion and politics in the same sentence, you’re going to come up with some controversy, so an opinion piece on the two was bound to get my attention. Most notably the … Continue reading
Colorado ACLU fears spying at Dems’ convention
Today’s Denver Post reports that Denver police hope to install some 20 high-tech video cameras before next summer’s Democratic National Convention. The cameras will monitor street activity in the city’s core near the Pepsi Center and along the popular 16th Street Mall. Digital videos from the cameras will be erased after 30 days. Some members … Continue reading
Newsweek shows Romney tanking in Iowa
A Newsweek poll released this afternoon shows Mike Huckabee surging ahead of Mitt Romney in Iowa. It’s now 39% for Huckabee vs. 17% for Romney. Or, depending on one’s point of view, Romney is tanking. I’d have been open to either interpretation before yesterday, but since this comes just one day after Romney’s “I’m a … Continue reading
We call them ‘illegals’ because they are
In Tuesday’s Denver Post, columnist Cindy Rodriquez wrote that, basically, calling illegal immigrants “illegals” is incorrect and misleading and that they should, more accurately, be called “necessary workers” or “essential workers.” Feeling that her logic was seriously flawed, I sent her the following email: You were quite correct in your assertions that our choice of … Continue reading
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