Dowbrigade

NEW YORK (Reuters) – At 73, country music legend Willie
Nelson is still doing headstands and smoking joints in the back of a
tour bus at hundreds of concerts and, far from slowing down, he’d like
[...]

SOMERVILLE — It’s a quiet night at The Thirsty Scholar,
an Irish pub and dating bar on Beacon Street. A handful of bored-looking
guys sit at the bar, watching a hockey game on the TV, and a few couples
[...]

A "sexual harassment" investigation is ongoing at an
Ohio college after the school’s librarian suggested that students read
a few books from a conservative perspective.
According to the Alliance Defense Fund — a legal alliance that [...]

WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Tuesday that
the Pentagon is reviewing its practice of paying to plant stories in
the Iraqi news media, withdrawing his earlier claim that it had been
[...]

An amazing demonstration of the utility of the meta-data recently added to the New York Times web site, allowing articles to be cross-indexed by related topics and articles.
from Aaronland

Boy,
reading the New
York Times Tough Shit Op-Ed pieces by their "big
guns" Kristoff, Dowd, Herbert and Friedman for free keeps getting harder
[...]

Last week we got one of those artfully timed dinnertime calls from
an earnest young woman trying to sell us a service we didn’t need. It
was
a "tepid" telemarketing call, as opposed to [...]

Any kind of a life crisis – medical, emotional, financial
or existential – imbues one with a renewed appreciation of life’s
simple pleasures.  Like the morning newspaper. It may be sacrilegious
for a "new [...]

For
a fan of daily newspapers who is also a student and teacher of Media
News, the relative vitality of the American printed
press is something of a sore spot.  News about the [...]