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Can a Nigga Get a Job?

The Washington Post, New York Daily News and Newsday are among a group of publications that refused to run The Boondocks last week. The series spoofed “The Apprentice,” with Russell Simmons hosting a new reality show called “Can a Nigga Get a Job?” Universal Press Syndicate gave papers the option of running the strip with the hyper-offensive “igg” replaced by

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BEARS WIN! BEARS WIN!

My baseball team back in Colorado, the Denver Bears, beat The Shack 5-2 to win the league championship yesterday. I got this e-mail from Shane, the team captain, just now: Hi Sammy, You’re RIGHT! Great game! It was 1-0 our favor going into the bottom of the fifth inning and the Shack scored 2 to make it 2-1 in favor

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Jimmy to Zell

Jimmy Carter uncorked on Zell Miller in a letter pubbed in the Atlanta Journal Constitution recently. While I’m not overly impressed by the “loyal Democrat” litany at the top (I don’t much hold with the idea that you remain loyal to something if you believe it has gone to hell), the “had the decency to become Republicans” part is dead-on.

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Covenant

Our legions are marching on the City of Rain, our bleeding bare feet, bone against concrete, tearing ruts in the King’s highway. We remember the lash and the hole. We remember Babylon Ballroom, silver trays of cheese and meats and candy liqueur, the splay of light tinkling wine-filled crystal, and later, hunched over our books and tearing at stale bread,

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Anathema

1. I hear voices, Father. I hear choirs – sopranos and altos and tenors and bass, their thousand voices like angels praising me into Paradise. I can’t stop hearing their glorious voices commanding that I drown my daughters hold their heads beneath baptismal waters until they kick and spew forth the light of Heaven, float limp in the ecstasy of

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In today’s NY Times: Barbarians at the Digital Gate — How spyware, a program that creeps onto a computer’s hard drive unannounced, is wrecking the Internet. The parasitic files that have beset Mr. Self and other frustrated computer users are known, in tech argot, as spyware and adware. The rapid proliferation of such programs has brought Internet use to a

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FAUX News wins convention ratings battle; objective journalism on life support, and if so, so what?

Dr. Denny Wilkins, my esteemed colleague in the J/MC program here at SBU, sent this around a few minutes ago: Glimpse at the future looks neither fair nor balanced But the squall that took everybody by surprise isn’t named Ivan or Frances or Charley, and it had nothing to do with Dan Rather. It was Fox News Channel, which rolled

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