Common Sense

I’ve stated before that I don’t really like to comment on letters to the editor that I read in the Trib. I work there and it gets me into a sort of professional ethical dilemma that’s hard to get out of when I criticize something a reader submits.
But some bear commenting on. This is just […]

I uncover our first conspiracy today in my very own Waco Trib.
Okay, it’s not really much of a conspiracy, but I live in a small town so cut me some slack. In today’s letters (an awful lot of which did not make sense) the very last one caught my attention:
‘Baby Blues’ parody?
I sincerely hope the […]

Do you ever wonder where Paris Hilton’s pocket change comes from?
In case you’ve wondered how Paris Hilton makes her money, apparently she gets paid tons of cheddar (I’m gangster, yo) by idiots who want her to show up to their events. She was paid $200,000 just for appearing at a charity event in Cannes on […]

I stopped writing about President Bush’s poll numbers when I got tired of writing “a new low for the president” over and over again.
Well, he has hit a new low and I’ve at least got to mention it: He is now at 29% approval.
Let me write that again. His approval rating is now at 29%! […]

When they are earned, I have no problem giving kudos to anybody. Even Wolf Blitzer.
I’ve been pretty hard on him for a long time because I think he does a crappy job disseminating the truth to the viewing public. He seems to like just letting people say whatever they want without refutation. But not last […]

Peter Daou has links to media reports and reviews from Colbert’s performance at the White Correspondence dinner Saturday night (which I also missed, damnit).
Mash at dKos says, “Standing at the podium only a few feet from President Bush, Colbert launched an all out assault on the policies of this Administration. It was remarkable, though painful […]

That we are all doomed?
You may have missed the recent story — these days the mainstream media seems more arbitrary than ever about what news it deems important — but it seems that the CIA has begun data mining the blogosphere in search of new trends, intelligence and early indicators of emerging international problems.
The story, […]

My online acquaintance Luke Ford has a profile in LA Weekly, and I’m so jealous. (Ed note: I’m jealous of the hot chicks and sex with porn stars, I was already profiled in Texas Monthly, so raspberries to you)
The Xxxorcist
Luke Ford
By DAN KAPELOVITZ
Wednesday, April 19, 2006 - 3:00 pm

Photo by Kevin Scanlon

Often called “the Matt […]

Jack Shafer has a great column in Slate about my fave media feud: The one between Keith Olbermann and Bill O’Reilly.
It shouldn’t be hard to figure out which one I’m backing in this fight, but let me tell you why. It’s not just because I think O’Reilly is a tool (although I do), it is […]