In line with my last few posts, here are a few items from this week’s news: The day after I posted about the reshaping of digital journalism, the New York Times announced Josh Barro, a young writer who I have praised here before, would be joining up… more »

  I became aware that something was happening when Nate Silver decamped from the New York Times with his FiveThirtyEight blog to move to ESPN. ESPN, a Disney property, purchased the rights from Silver (the Times had only licensed the rights from the st… more »

I attended my first gun show Saturday in southwest Florida where I reside in the winter. I’m not a hardcore gun guy, which is why, when a friend invited me, I took the opportunity to check it out. His text message included the alluring phrase “Guns+B… more »

  Rich guy Tom Perkins has been skewered in the media for his letter to the Wall Street Journal in which he made a grotesque comparison between Kristallnacht and the Occupy movement.  Perhaps we should be less critical of Perkins and others among his s… more »

  So I will watch the game today having, as has become my habit, avoided the media foreplay the Super Bowl has conditioned us to expect over the past forty-six years. I could care less about the comparisons and the stats- I am well past the age where f… more »