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Lost our way morally? Like hell, Mike.
Originally posted on Scholars and Rogues | Progressive Culture: In Huckabee’s America, all who fail to believe as he does are morally bankrupt From Mike Huckabee’s announcement of his 2016...
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You, too, can be a journalist (or a corporate message control specialist)
Dr. Denny Wilkins:my latest at Scholars & Rogues … Originally posted on Scholars and Rogues | Progressive Culture: I asked my students as the semester ended: “How many of you do not want to be...
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How can we best honor our fallen heroes on Memorial Day?
Dr. Denny Wilkins:Sam hits the mark … Originally posted on Scholars and Rogues | Progressive Culture: Honoring those who died in service doesn’t mean forgiving those who put them in harm’s way. Today...
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To your favorite politician, you are merely marketable data
Originally posted on Scholars and Rogues | Progressive Culture: I have given my last dollar to a politician. I will never again “like” a politician. I will never again click the “donate” button. Hell,...
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A poll says we’re fed up with big money in politics, but will it end?
Originally posted on Scholars and Rogues | Progressive Culture: From a New York Timesstory this week: Americans of both parties fundamentally reject the regime of untrammeled money in elections made...
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CNN’s ‘Courageous’— recycling an idea that was bad decades ago
Originally posted on Scholars and Rogues | Progressive Culture: Move along, now. There’s nothing new here. Really. From the Wall Street Journal’s Steven Perlberg: CNN is creating an in-house studio...
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What cute baby-picture posts may lead to …
You know them — the social media parents. They learn she’s pregnant with her first child. Joy consumes them. The announcement hits Twitter with abdominal photo or sonogram: “I’m preggers! #thefirst...
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My brief, wonderful life without Facebook
I caught a cold last week. So I missed several days of scrolling endlessly and mostly fruitlessly on Facebook. My world, sans Facebook, did not end. The sky did not collapse upon me. Chicken Little...
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What happened when I had a black boyfriend
By one of my university students … Scholars and Rogues | Progressive Culture By Kailyn Jennings I’m a skinny, knock-kneed, white girl from a small farm town in upstate New York. I have blue eyes, pale...
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For 2016, re-elect Andrew Shepherd as U.S. president: Fiction trumps the...
In my favorite bad movie, The American President, Michael Douglas as the fictional President Andrew Shepherd confronts his Republican challenger’s claims about Shepherd’s character. We have serious...
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Where there’s political smoke, there’s the oil and gas lobby
Well, isn’t that special: Congress passed a $1.1 trillion spending bill before heading off for a three-week holiday vacation. (You get that much time off?) Brinkmanship is avoided; threats to shut down...
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Wanted: Part-time job with $174,000 salary — and plenty of perks
Pssst — have I got a few sweetheart jobs for you. In one, you’ll only have to work 111 days in 2016. You’ll be off — yep, off! — for 150 days. There’s this job, too: You’ll only have to work for 149...
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After #SCOTUSnom, political war beckons. We’ll all lose in the end.
[first published at Scholars & Rogues 3.16.2016] If your taste in politics runs toward the hardball, then you’re about to be sated. President Obama today nominated the chief judge of the Court of...
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2016: so far a bleak year, fettered by anger
[first published at Scholars & Rogues 3.17.2016] I began 2016, the year in which I turned 70 years old, so damn angry. More than sufficient reasons exist for all that anger. I, like many of you, am...
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Newspapers, foundering in unproductive habits, should change
[first published at Scholars and Rogues 5.19.2016] One morning a few weeks ago, I sat at the end of the counter in my favorite diner, Robbins Nest. Lisa brought tea, Jessica asked, “The usual?” and...
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Newspapers’ big problem: failure to distinguish meaningful from meaningless
[first published at Scholars & Rogues 5.28.2016] Warren Buffett, the newspaper-loving Oracle of Omaha, isn’t loving newspapers quite as much these days. Speaking of the industry’s attempts to...
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When art fails to persist …
I took this photograph on May 30, 2015. This old truck sits beside Route 93 north of Ely, Nevada, at what was once a Pony Express station. But what caught my eye is not the truck; rather, what’s on...
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State of the news biz in 2016? Oh, my god … it’s really bad.
Newsies dread this time of year. It’s when the Pew Research Center releases its annual State of the Media report. And the findings, for print newsies, are bad, bad, bad. Ad revenue down. Trust measures...
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the storm …
Sometimes when you’re driving in the West, you see a thunderstorm. It’s far off, still nascent, an indistinct dark smudge on the horizon perhaps a hundred miles away. In the East, you don’t see a...
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Another Fourth, another episode of blissful national blindness
No red, white, and blue adorn my flagpole. No patriotic bunting arches over my front door. No fireworks await their flaming demise. I no longer enjoy the nation’s formal parting from Great Britain...
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