Category Archives: Media Dysfunction

Trip-Induced Reflections

Quick thoughts on Internet ebb and flow, etc. Continue reading

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Egypt

Egypt. Bear witness. Continue reading

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This Place is So Broken

Calls for civility miss the plot. Continue reading

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Sherlock Holmes, etc.

A few thoughts on the Holmes canon and the new movie. Continue reading

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Moyers Interviews Greenwald

Moyers Interviews Greenwald. Continue reading

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Science Friday

Human evolution and a giant photo of the Milky Way. Continue reading

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Fugitive

Polanski – I have no sympathy. Let the wheels of justice grind on. Continue reading

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Recent CurrentMom Posts

My recent posts over at CurrentMom: A few thoughts on whether technology is making us ‘over-share’. I think not. A rant about critical thinking and separating wheat from chaff in an age of too much information. Some scribblings about Pogue’s … Continue reading

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A Few Links

A few links, since I can’t seem to properly blog at all anymore. Scott Rosenberg’s book on the history of blogging, Say Everything, will be released shortly. A couple of chapters are already available online. I read the chapter on … Continue reading

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Much Brokenness – Tasers and Village Smears

Digby has been on the case of taser abuse for months and what it says about not only the criminal justice system and law enforcement but our society as a whole. In her latest post on the subject: It’s not … Continue reading

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