Okay, this is funny
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nickledndimed/220619883
Tuesday, August 22, 2006
Appalling
Why stop at merely bullying a teenage kidnapping victim on national television? When you can also patronize her.
Why stop at merely bullying a teenage kidnapping victim on national television? When you can also patronize her.
Good word
"Reporting -- meaning the tradition by which a member of a distinct occupational category gets to cross the usual bounds of geography and class, to go where important things are happening, to ask powerful people blunt and impertinent questions, and to report back, reliably and in plain language, to a general audience -- is a distinctive, fairly recent invention."
-- Nicholas Lemann
"Reporting -- meaning the tradition by which a member of a distinct occupational category gets to cross the usual bounds of geography and class, to go where important things are happening, to ask powerful people blunt and impertinent questions, and to report back, reliably and in plain language, to a general audience -- is a distinctive, fairly recent invention."
-- Nicholas Lemann
Monday, August 21, 2006
Brush with greatness
In Bayfield we stayed at Gruenke's First Street Inn, a place that is noteworthy in part because whitefish livers, a signature Bayfield delicacy, reportedly were first served there.
But Gruenke's has another claim to fame: John F. Kennedy, Jr. was once a guest. In a modern twist on George Washington Slept Here, the late scion is immortalized in a shrine that takes up much of one wall in the dining room. The arrangement includes his bill from the restaurant, and his registration form. The latter is signed, simply, "John Kennedy," and I confess that seeing his signature gave me shivers.
There also is a photograph of a light aircraft. Whether it's that light aircraft, I don't want to know.
In Bayfield we stayed at Gruenke's First Street Inn, a place that is noteworthy in part because whitefish livers, a signature Bayfield delicacy, reportedly were first served there.
But Gruenke's has another claim to fame: John F. Kennedy, Jr. was once a guest. In a modern twist on George Washington Slept Here, the late scion is immortalized in a shrine that takes up much of one wall in the dining room. The arrangement includes his bill from the restaurant, and his registration form. The latter is signed, simply, "John Kennedy," and I confess that seeing his signature gave me shivers.
There also is a photograph of a light aircraft. Whether it's that light aircraft, I don't want to know.
Friday, August 18, 2006
Wednesday, August 16, 2006
Shh
Am I old-fashioned? I'm not old, but I remember a time when people whispered at libraries, or didn't talk at all. Nowadays people in libraries speak at a regular volume, or even louder than that.
I'm thinking, in particular, of the two people standing in front of me as I type this. And looking at them, I am struck by something: One is a librarian. Yes -- and no offense to my librarian readers; I cherish you -- sometimes the librarians are talking the loudest of all.
What's to be done?
Am I old-fashioned? I'm not old, but I remember a time when people whispered at libraries, or didn't talk at all. Nowadays people in libraries speak at a regular volume, or even louder than that.
I'm thinking, in particular, of the two people standing in front of me as I type this. And looking at them, I am struck by something: One is a librarian. Yes -- and no offense to my librarian readers; I cherish you -- sometimes the librarians are talking the loudest of all.
What's to be done?
Sunday, August 13, 2006
Good word
"I pulled out a line that has long served me well as a journalist: 'I'm sorry, I know I should have understood that, but I didn't. Could you please explain that once more?'"
Carol J. Loomis
"I pulled out a line that has long served me well as a journalist: 'I'm sorry, I know I should have understood that, but I didn't. Could you please explain that once more?'"
Carol J. Loomis
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