Monthly Archives: February 2009
FBI Reports Rise In Backstabbings; Economy, Ass-Kissers Blamed
(Editor’s note: I originally wrote this for The Walnut, the satirical business site I operated back in blogging’s stone age: 2002. Unfortunately, it still works with the slightest of updates. Mueller’s still even the FBI director). WASHINGTON — Signaling a … Continue reading
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Hurry Up And…@#%&! WAIT?!?!
Although the stimulus package is now being parceled out, the talking heads at the top of the food chain are still grumbling that something remains terribly amiss. Why isn’t the economy perking up in the same way Dorothy opened the … Continue reading
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A Questionable Time
Journalism Experts: Magazine Exercised Poor Judgment, Taste with Online Feature This year marks the fifteenth anniversary of a major embarrassment for Time Magazine: its decision to darken O.J. Simpson’s booking photo when he was arrested for murder. The manipulated mugshot … Continue reading
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Fight of the Long Knives
Barack Obama hit the campaign trail, reached across the aisle, talked tough when he needed to, and got a nearly $800-billion stimulus package to help the economy. It’s a victory that could spell his doom. Hopefully, as Obama maintains his … Continue reading
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A-Roid and the Ink-Stained Kvetches
Thank God Alex Rodriguez just copped to using steroids. I was beginning to think this recession story had dragged on for too long. Along with his proclivity for strippers, the slum apartments he owns in Florida, and his belief that … Continue reading
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Los Feliz Haunt
(Editor’s Note: I was working against the clock on this piece, well aware that the L.A. Times’s inestimable cityside reporter Bob Pool had worked up a long takeout, which was published as today’s Column One feature. Pool’s article had been … Continue reading
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Clichéd unemployment reporting now underway!
I was wondering when my local paper, the Los Angeles Times, would dust off the most shopworn of journalistic practices during a recession: visiting the local unemployment office. Such articles do little more than assay the desperation of the people … Continue reading
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