On political coverage: Elizabeth Edwards' view

In a guest column at the New York Times, Elizabeth Edwards rates the campaign so far: Bowling 1, Health Care 0 . Why this annoying emphasis ...

Politics and gate 14

Over at the Wall Street Journal, Peggy Noonan -- yes, Peggy Noonan -- had some time on her hands waiting to get through a TSA screening. in ...

40 Years Ago

(An occasional reminiscence on the events of 1968 ) On April 11 Defense Secretary Clark Clifford announced Gen. Westmoreland's request f...

Survey for Elderbloggers. Or older bloggers.

Over at Time Goes By , Ronni Bennett has set up a survey to find out more about bloggers over 50. Says Ronni: The goal is to find out what ...

Earth Day

Can't do much better than Google ....

Research links of the week

Well, not much more new this week, but here are some good ones. For more on what I've been doing, some photos from a weekend art/music ...

Really tired of it all

Mary Mapes says what a lot of us feel about this presidential campaign about now, in Okay, Now I'm Bitter : I want my life back. This po...

Guide to free case law search

Are you confused about all the new sources appearing that say you can search case law online, for free? Does it really work? Is it complete?...

Newspaper writing: Hemingway style

So how did Ernest Hemingway develop that unique writing style? A lot of it came from his newspaper writing experience, at the Kansas City St...

One researcher: 4 or 5 Pulitzers

Following up on yesterday's post on Washington Post researcher Julie Tate, there's a profile of her in City Paper: The Unsung Hero o...

Iraq: Bay of Pigs?

In the Miami Herald, a collaboration between long-time Herald Caribbean correspondent Don Bohning (author of The Castro Obsession: U.S. Cove...

One researcher. Three Pulitzers

Buried in the column by the Washington Post's ombudsman, Deborah Howell, praising the contributions of editors and other staff to some ...

Who's elite?

When I logged on to Memeorandum a couple days ago, the lead headline (from Powerline or Little Green Footballs or some other big deal conse...

Tellico Dam

Knoxville News Sentinel had a feature story this weekend on Tellico Dam , since the anniversary of that controversial dam is coming soon. In...

On Bob Greene

I almost wrote a posting about the death of Newsweek investigative journalist Bob Greene the other day. When I read he'd died I remember...

Newspapers need databases: even in sports

Derek Willis looked at the South Florida coverage of the Miami Dolphins draft, and discovered databases on the Sun Sentinel's and Palm ...

U.S. Congress Twitters

Here's Twitter from the Senate Floor ; Twitter from the House Floor .

I'm tired of it, too

Erica Jong, in Huffington Post, on the snide remarks some members of the media make about Sen. Clinton: Misogyny, Momism and Militarism . Ph...

Every evening...

(originally posted to the HighlandsCam blog at 7:10 last evening) ..this week at about this time, two C-130s fly over this tip of western NC...

Pulitzer news, a couple days late

Nice to see that the Miami Herald's editor Anders Gyllenhaal had a hand in the awarding of a special Pulitzer Prize to Bob Dylan , as a ...

American tribes, another election story (myth?) great books, and Gmail tips

Lots of interesting postings on Hullaballoo recently, including this one on how John McCain's 'Biography' tour seems to be an a...

Research links of the week

Sometimes a random link stirs up an interesting memory and connections, like this one found on Resourceshelf: Terremark to host Library of C...

40 Years Ago

(An occasional reminiscence on the events of 1968 ) Saturday was supposed to be the big day of the Cherry Blossom Festival in Washington, bu...

Newspapers and links

On a topic I've posted about for years, great article in Slate by Jack Shafer, Links that Stink . According to Shafer, many newspapers a...

40 Years Ago

(An occasional reminiscence on the events of 1968 ) Monday, April 1, started out as a normal work week. It may have been my first day in the...

Our primary is important after all, and local developments

A couple of months ago it was looking like there wouldn't be any point of voting in the North Carolina primary this year, since by votin...