“The Democratic voters have made their choice. And so have I!” John Edwards bellowed at the podium inside Grand Rapids, Michigan’s Van Andel arena. The declaration was met with eruptive cheers among the nearly 12,000 supporters in the stands—and sent a separate, personal bolt of electricity through this reporter’s spine.
This is mind-bendingly awful. Can you imagine how this pitch went? Kourtney: “Hey! Let’s be, like, topical.” Kim: “Yeah, let’s totally play with public perception of me as a vapid bimbo! I could say, like, smart stuff!” Kourtney: *SQUEAAAAALS!* Ugh. (But also? Wow. Good googly moogly, that thang look juicy!)
Say what you will about embattled attorney-turned-entertainment-“personality” Star Jones (and the commenters at New York Magazine are saying plenty), but never say she lets folks keep her name in their mouths without a strong rebuttal.
I finished the book Homicide by David Simon. I only recently became a David Simon fan, but I’d been talking about The Wire a lot at work and my coworker, who was cleaning out his desk. He used to cover the cops and courts for my paper, and while he was cleaning out his desk Read More
The other day, I walked in to my newspaper office expecting to cover a public board meeting, and my editors asked me to do a story on rising gas prices. A local station had started to charge $4.09 a gallon (this was before they all started doing that.) The transportation reporter is out on paternity Read More
(Via Ill Doctrine.)
[Cross posted from Bitch Ph.D. Big up, Tedra.] Mildred Loving died [Monday] at the age of 68. Here is a copy of a statement she made on the 40th anniversary of Loving v. Virginia, last June. A few thoughts on the occasion: first, obviously the freedom to marry is still contested for a lot of Read More
