Screw-up at The Atlantic leads to inane corporate memo.

Perhaps you noticed the screw-up : The Atlantic ran an article promoting Scientology — "David Miscavige Leads Scientology to Milestone ...

"We said, hey, let's do something ridiculous."

"Let's go shoot guns." ADDED: Via a Columbia Journalism Review "Pass the #popcorn" item, with a lot of intra-journal...

Crazy NRA approach to school violence...

... is supported by 55% of Americans. By "crazy," I mean that the elite media went all out to portray the suggestion as insane: H...

"Alligator found guarding 34 pounds of pot in a Northern California home."

"[Sheriff's Sgt. J.D. ] Nelson said [Assif ] Mayar apparently acquired the alligator, named 'Mr. Teeth,' in 1996 to commemo...

Al Jazeera hands Al Gore the second-chakra-releasing sum of $100 million.

Wow! Here 's this failed, low-rated cable TV project of Al's. What is Al Jazeera buying? It's going to close down Current TV and...

"Under the agreement, tax rates would jump to 39.6 percent from 35 percent for individual incomes over $400,000 and couples over $450,000..."

"... while tax deductions and credits would start phasing out on incomes as low as $250,000, a clear win for President Obama, who campa...

"A deranged woman who told cops she detests Muslims broke into a maniacal fit of laughter as she was charged with a hate crime Saturday..."

"... three days after she allegedly shoved an Indian immigrant to his death in front of a Queens train." “Tell your client this is...

"Gregory had no intent to commit a crime; he was committing journalism instead."

"Gun owners often say they want the government to leave them alone; why then are some clamoring for Gregory to be prosecuted?" Ask...

"Has anyone ever told you that your high-wattage passion for no-collar American food makes you television’s answer to Calvin Trillin, if Mr. Trillin bleached his hair, drove a Camaro and drank Boozy Creamsicles?"

"When you cruise around the country for your show 'Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives,' rasping out slangy odes to the unfancy places ...

"This is what a several hundred person staff and a massive brand name can do, bitches!"

"This isn’t the future of journalism. It’s a legacy – and still troubled – brand like the New York Times taking off the gloves, no long...

"Intimidation: NY Newspaper Publishes Names, Addresses of Gun Permit Holders."

"I guess nobody could object to people putting the newspaper staff’s addresses on the Web now, right?, says Instapundit , and as I clic...

David Gregory, neatly tweaked...

... by Drudge (in Christmas colors): The links are: "Did David Gregory Violate DC Gun Law On National TV?" and "Mocks NRA C...

"At News Conference, Reporters Skip Past Gun Control and Face Instant Criticism."

The reporters wanted to get back to the fiscal cliff. Is it "unbelievable" and "shameful" that the press corps wanted to...

"The First Amendment affords a publisher - not a reporter - absolute authority to shape a newspaper's content."

Says a panel of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals to the dismay of AlterNet : Rather than uphold their rights both to unionize and to speak ...

Robert Bork has died.

He was 85. From the above-linked NYT obituary: Judge Bork, a bear of a man with a scraggly red beard and untamed frizz on a balding pate who...

Republicans used to stress "law and order," and Democrats — sounding more educated and compassionate — said we needed to look at the "root causes" of crime.

Back in, say, the Nixon era, we Nixon-hating types used "law-and-order" as an adjective expressing contempt. We might say, for exa...

Why are people having so much trouble understanding rhetorical devices?

You may remember Justice Scalia the other day tweaking the kids at Princeton for not being able to handle r eductio ad absurdum : It's ...

"The founding fathers never envisioned the damage that could be done by a 24-hour news cycle."

"The media incentivizes killers by giving them attention, and they put innocent people in danger." Clearly, we cannot sit by and h...

"How Maps Helped Republicans Keep an Edge in the House."

Headline at the NYT , where the first 2 paragraphs talk about Wisconsin. Is Wisconsin a clear majority-Democrat state rigged at the district...

It isn't news, "it's just rubbernecking," turning "this murdering little twat into a a sort of nihilistic pinup boy."

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