Talking heads

If there’s one thing I can’t stand, it’s talking heads – and I’m not talking about the band.
All you need to do is flip through the cable news channels, and inevitably you will see them: so-called experts seeing who can yell the loudest about the federal bailout, the credit crisis, the swine flu. Too often, [...]

Blank bylines

When I open a newspaper, sometimes before I even read the story or look at the headlines, I like to look at the byline. I don’t know why, I just think it’s interesting to look at the reporter’s name, and going through my mental database of that reporter’s work, I can tell before even digging [...]