Talk about getting into the wrong business. More than 100 Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority bus and train operators took home paychecks topping $100,000 in fiscal 2006 because of lush overtime earnings that have skewed Metro’s budget and sent pension costs spiraling out of control under a uniquely generous employee retirement plan. I definitely need […]
I think we're several decades away (at least) before the newspaper becomes something that kids learn in some elementary school history lesson. (And what will people use to wrap their fish or line their birdcages?) But it's no surprise to anyone that the print media is in some serious trouble. Circulation continues to decline and […]
Sixty years ago today Jackie Robinson took the field for the Brooklyn Dodgers and baseball's color barrier was shattered. This was seven years before the landmark Supreme Court case of Brown v. Board of Education was decided. It was 17 years before the groundbreaking Civil Rights Act of 1964 was signed into law. For the […]
First off, best wishes to New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine who was in a car crash on Thursday. Get well soon. Second, why the h-e-double-hockeysticks wasn't he wearing his seat belt? New Jersey is one of many states that have laws requiring people to wear seatbelts, but once again you've got a politician who appears […]
Boston Globle columnist Ellen Goodman has a new column out today taking to task "incivil" people. The news hook is the now-twice fired Don Imus, but Goodman also reels in the vicious threats and attacks on tech writer/blogress Kathy Sierra (rightly) for condemnation. Unsurprisingly, Goodman uttered nary a peep when fellow columnist Michelle Malkin started […]
Let's take a quick moment to chuckle at the fact that Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has said that she'd go to Iran to talk with Iranian President wacko/figurehead Mahmoud Imadinnerjacket without preconditions but initially wouldn't talk with President Bush about the supplemental funding bill for the troops in Iraq unless he agreed to […]
Today's "you gotta be kidding me" moment comes from the Washington editor of Time.com, Ana Marie Cox. I'll have some more fleshed-out thoughts on the matter in the magazine this week, but for now, since many people have asked: No, I won't be going on Imus anymore. Having said that, it's not like they'll be […]
Last week I made a brief mention of ABC News' Web coverage of the recess appointment of Sam Fox to be ambassador to Belgium. The headline was anything but unbiased: "Bush Swift Boats Belgium, Congress." The subhed wasn't any better: "President Slips Swift Boat Ambassador Past Congress." Rule No. 1 of headline writing: Don't use […]
Former Saudi ambassasdor to the United States, Prince "Big" Turki Al-Faisal, had some interesting things to say today. This bit, I'm going to take as an invitation. “We fear nothing. We are not closed. And we do not cocoon ourselves...Unfortunately, after Sept.11 our traditions, customs, and religion were put under the spotlight,” he said. So, […]