Posts tagged as Columists
The 'Times' Thinks It Might Have (Maybe) Witnessed Police Brutality (Secondhand)
The New York Times thinks it maybe saw something... so it's saying something. In a Sunday afternoon post titled "Video Appears to Show Wall Street Protesters Being Pepper-Sprayed," the paper's City Room blog embedded a video—originally posted by YouTube user USLAWdotcom—and offered a delicate take on the proceedings. READ MORE
Vanishing Point (Your Memes Reviewed): #DeleteYourTwitterIf
The conditional clauses that come packaged with April 5th's trending hashtag #DeleteYourTwitterIf are as varied as the reasons one might choose to delete one's Twitter account even without the advice proffered by someone whose avatar is a close-up of their tramp stamp. With bass notes of generalized-turned-personal rage, it provides a perfect framework for passive-aggressive claims on digital turf, as users stuck with second-choice handles quickly discovered. READ MORE
Steve Forbes Misunderstands Augustus, Caesar and Hannibal
I don't know where people get the idea our moguls are out of touch. Why, just look at the new feature over at Forbes-Power Ambition Glory, which is lavishly presented as a "Special Report," replete with a bust of Caesar placed tastefully opposite the mugs of failed presidential monomaniacs Rudy Giuliani and Steve Forbes. On closer inspection, the special report is a cut-and-paste repurposing of excerpts from a book, by Forbes and John Prevas, bearing the same oddly unpunctuated title, and the far wordier but no more grammatical subtitle, "The Stunning Parallels Between Great Leaders of the Ancient World and Today and the Lessons You Can Learn." READ MORE
