Author Archives: jsl915@aol.com

In yesterday’s Times, Leslie Kaufman wrote about the state of  self-publishing.  I was startled to read that fully one quarter of the books on Amazon’s best-seller list are now self-published.

Kos on Daily Kos mocks the spectacle of the Dems, you know, the ones who’ve worked so strenuously to hamstring themselves and their purported legislation by maintaining the filibuster, now letting out out a few petulant whimpers about it after … Continue reading →

At Talkingpointsmemo.com, Igor Bobic reports: “McConnell’s Facebook Page Mocks Reid Moments After Gun Bill Fails.” And there’s the lather of manufactured outrage from McConnell, who’s hell bent on distracting attention from his scurvy election strategizing! And will the “mainstream” news  … Continue reading →

I knew they were represented the future of healthy journalism, when I came across them several months ago.  Now they’ve won a Pulitzer! Common Dreams.org gives props and highlights their prize-winning investigative journalism on “The Dilbit Disaster: Inside the Biggest … Continue reading →

Still on that paper-reduction treadmill, I found a Playbill interview with Anne Meara from the mid-1990s, relevant to what took place over the last thirty-plus years in publishing and the media, the fashioning of media product catch-all composites, wherein the … Continue reading →

Obama’s shameless budget lieutenant, Gene Sperling, long a relentless advocate for cutting earned-benefit programs, went to Capitol Hill to make the White House’s customary “Don’t blame us-we’re only the Executive Branch of the United State of America” defense of its … Continue reading →

FAIR diagrams the “mainstream” commerical media’s double talk about cuts to Social Security.

Thank you, Abbey Zimet of Commondreams.com for alerting me to GW Bush’s interview with the Dallas Morning News.  Seems Dubya’s really, really comfortable with what he unleashed. . . If only the rest of the planet was.  Did I hear … Continue reading →

Going through old programs in my my never-ending quest to de-clutter, I found this remark by Sting in a Playbill interview published when he starred in John Dexter’s 1989 revival of The Threepenny Opera on Broadway. Explaining his disenchantment with … Continue reading →

On the Morning Joe sideshow, we get buffoonery by James Carville, bragging about how Obama gets off on angering liberals—how about being hated by the majority of both Republicans and Democrats who oppose cuts to Social Security?   Obama may not … Continue reading →