The candidates have a tenuous relationship with moderator John King. They would reluctantly submit to his "this or that" questions -- Leno or Conan? -- but they would not heed King's urgings to stop talking and let the debate continue.
Is it really stealing if you're only grabbing two sentences? I'd guess that's how many Twitter thieves justify their plagiarism.
As Father's Day nears, I decided to take a look back at some comic strip fathers to see how dads have been depicted over time.
Caroline Titus, a British ex-pat, wrote her first Letter to the Editor to the San Fernando Valley News in 1978. The power of that pen, it seems, made quite an impression, setting the stage for her career to come.
Does the press have the right to disclose some secrets? I believe that too many documents are designated "top-secret" when they really should be designated "embarrassing."
The trendy word that I've noticed most lately is "metaphor." This used to be confined mainly to academia, but in the past few years it has broken out like a rash among the general population. I am curious about how such trends get started.
Who is your financial role model: Elmo or Cookie Monster? That was the headline I was greeted with when I logged on to Moneyland, Time Inc.'s new personal-finance website.
Even if the President whom we all worked hard for cares more about the deficit than jobs, caves to the Senate Republican minority on the Bush tax cuts, and proposes draconian budget cuts for the poor, now is not the time to just give up.
When the White House released the erroneous fact that president Obama would be the first President since John F. Kennedy to visit Puerto Rico, CNN, NPR and others accepted it as fact and began reporting it.
It feels like every time Sarah Palin blinks she's written up in the news, and we don't intend to give her more media attention. We can't stop the presses from covering her every move, but we can help focus, undercut and change the Palin narrative.
Today is about the social web and its reach. Tomorrow will be about leveraging it further for good.
A real friend would tell a guy like LeBron James that he is really messing up his image and his brand. But his yes-men entourage never will. They don't want to get kicked off the gravy train.
Our culture is at once the most sexually repressed and hyper-sexualized on earth. This entrenched Puritan ethos is so prevalent that most of us are running 18th-century software in our brains when it comes to sexual mores.
When you consider all the political careers wrecked by acts of extra-marital sex, whether Gary Hart's Bimini bimbo or Elliott Spitzer's Washington call-girl, you can see that being a potent male is often an obstacle to being a potent politician.
Perhaps the cold spell we're experiencing in DC originated from a realm much farther down beneath the earth that just froze over today. Glenn Beck just changed his mind on Ayn Rand!
The memory we bring forth as First Nations people is of a time and way of life where LGBTQI folks were accepted. Fred's legacy goes beyond tacit racism and cultural appropriation.
It was predictable that hoaxes would proliferate in the new electronic journalism. Almost everyday some celebrity dies a Twitter death. The Amina story may set a record, as coverage seems to have increased as it became more widely known it was untrue.
The documentary, opening in limited release this Friday, uses what has become America's most important print media outlet to tell the story of the collapse of print media in the Internet age.
We are mistaken if we think this is just about Tracy Morgan. Tragically, from my vantage point of working with thousands of LGBT youths who have experienced family rejection, he made a joke out of an everyday reality.
Louis Peitzman, 2011.06.15
