Dead Like the Lovely Forgotten Bones

The fall television seasons are kicking themselves into life. Hulu makes it much easier to catch the many pilots flying furiously past. The 2002 Alice Sebold book The Lovely Bones seems to have it’s hand heavily on a new offering from ABC: The Forgotten. I recently finished watching the two seasons of Dead Like Me … Read more

Quo Vadis, Mr. President

On Wednesday night, President Obama addressed the Congress about health insurance reform. One thing I’m wondering is how many Americans didn’t listen? More particularly, how many Americans are opinionated on the “against” side and listen to talk radio or any other conservative media and didn’t listen? I listened to most of President G. W. Bush’s … Read more

NYT Twitter Article

I think this NYT Article (Who’s Driving Twitter’s Popularity?  Not Teens.) misses the mark drastically and sows trite generalisms. “Twitter’s unparalleled explosion in popularity has been driven by a decidedly older group. That success has shattered a widely held belief that young people lead the way to popularizing innovations.” Who decided they were older?  (Oh, … Read more