Jarvis & Weaver’s $1,000 Bet: Kum-bay-yah in 4, 3, 2 …

Been a while between posts here – I’ve had writing deadlines, presentation deadlines and a dauntingly ambitious editing task to try to manage.  Anyway, despite this being the Christmas season, oft-assailed  gadfly & jilted lover of newspapers...

Cold Comfort for the (former) Ink-Stained Wretches of the 4th Estate

Josh Marshall feels bad about all the cuts in newspapers.  Which is a dangerous thing to express in public, as angry curmudgeons tend to descend in swarms, likely blaming Marshall for their plight … while surreptitiously banging in copies of their resume...

Cat Riding a Roomba

I received the tweet earlier today, and it rocked my world like a bombshell.  It was from Scott Beale, owner/operator/provocateur of the Laughing Squid collective of digital mischiefmakers. It read “what could you possibility be doing right now that is...

Tech Jargon from Another Era…

This is just too funny to keep to myself – back in the halcyon days of comedy, before broad ethnic stereotypes became Verboten, and even the Muppets’ Swedish Chef became “edgy” … people used to post things like this in public places:...