Sports
Now that Tiger Woods’s penis is costing millions of Americans their jobs, something has to be done about all this reckless celebrity behavior. If it were just a sex scandal, we might have been able to laugh it off. But as MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann has noted, Tiger Woods himself is an industry, and when he [...]
When a field, an art or a business is new, everyone does things her own way. Since there are no “rules,” everyone is free to explore and discover which methods work better than others. But when someone starts earning fame or fortune from doing things a certain way, that way becomes the norm — and [...]
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Comments Are Overrated
As I (and several others) have pointed out recently, there’s been a slow death of discourse in blogs. Most commenters either agree with the author openly, disagree vehemently, or use the opportunity as a chance to pose their own pet theories (as a ploy to drive traffic to their own blogs). What’s often missing is [...]
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