On the Balloon Side Show,
The Infotaining Media, and Representative Democracy
Elvin Lim weighs in on Balloon-Boy.
Monsters and Wild Things
Stephen Asma, author of On Monsters looks at Where the Wild Things Are.
Mario Savio: Freedom’s Orator
An excerpt from Freedom’s Orator: Mario Savio and the Radical Legacy of the 1960s.
Fantasy and Reality: What is the Truth?
An excerpt from How Fantasy Becomes Reality.
Amazon Sales Rank: I’m being outsold by a book on tattoos
Dennis Baron, author of A Better Pencil, looks at Amazon sales rankings.
Obama At The UN General Assembly
Bosco reflects on Obama’s speech at the UN.
Going To Extremes
An excerpt from Going to Extremes.
Typing Politics: Trent Lott
An excerpt from Typing Politics introduced by the author Richard Davis.
Communication Power
How are communication and power related?
Musing the News
An excerpt from Losing The News.
Riddle Me Now, Riddle Me Then…:The Answer
The solution to Gordon Thompson’s riddle.
John Dillinger Goes to the Movies
Author Elliott J. Gorn looks at John Dillinger films.
Is it true what they said about John Dillinger?
I’m reasonably sure that most American boys who reached adolescence in the 1960s knew Dillinger’s dick. It was enormous, preserved in formaldehyde at the Smithsonian Institution. Friends of mine who grew up on the east coast told me years later that on high school trips to Washington, the boys would spread out and look for it.
Walter Cronkite and the Decline of the Evening News
Donald Ritchie says goodbye to Walter Cronkite.
Amazon Fail 2.0: Bookseller’s Big Brother removes Orwell’s Big Brother from Kindles everywhere
Dennis Barron looks at Amazon’s decision to pull copies of Orwell’s “1984” and “Animal Farm” from individual’s Kindle libraries.
Michael Jackson, Nostalgia, and the 1980s
Elvin Lim looks at 80’s nostalgia.