Comments on: Boats against the current.

By: ejohnson

ejohnson — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 20:15:24 +0000

Ah hyperlocal journalism. Checking out those Reader’s Digest-style sites and hearing about their big grants makes me wonder what I’m doing wrong. Oh yeah, I’m actually coming up with my own stories, albeit with a different spin than I was allowed as a newspaper reporter. Meanwhile, the Chicago Tribune’s TribLocal, a glorified bulletin board for local press releases, cruises my site daily for ideas. And sells ads.

I’ll be avidly following your site, Nancy, to see how it evolves.

By: brian stouder

brian stouder — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 16:09:52 +0000

Sorry about the H, Dorothy!

Looking back at it, it looks wrong enough that it SHOULD have prompted me to check it — but I have no excuse

By: Dorothy

Dorothy — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 14:49:05 +0000

BRIAN!!! Gasp — no “h” on that Pittsburg?!?! For shame!

We were in Pittsburgh over Easter weekend and we were astonished to see this on the news: Poplawski’s grandmother (he’s the scumbag who killed three police officers) chained herself to the front steps at the house where the shootings took place. She said she needed to get medical records, medicines, private papers from inside and the police would not let her go in. It’s an active crime scene so of course she couldn’t enter. She sat there wrapped up in blankets, with her cat, in the rain, chain smoking and weeping. The neighbors were extremely pissed at her, so they formed counter demonstrations right in front of the house to draw attention away from her sorry ass. It was an embarrassment. Like the police in Zone 5 really needed to be dealing with that crap. Seeing the way the grandmother acted and spoke told us volumes about the asshole who shot those fine young men.

By: mark

mark — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 14:09:52 +0000

Thanks for the link, Jeff.

I’ll let my conservative and other bias run loose and get straight to the point. I don’t buy the “Tiffany’s afraid to leave the small town, it’s all she knows” stuff. Tiffany is looking for love and approval from a deadbeat young man who has no interest in her potential or her success.

There are a hundred good universities that would pay to have a talent and a success like Tiffany on their campus. But Trevor the unemployed drop-out is conducting this performance.

By: Jeff (the mild-mannered one)

Jeff (the mild-mannered one) — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:53:54 +0000

So, I’m crying, i’m angry, i’m praying. And if you read this, you’ll do all three, too, and you don’t even know Tiffany (probably). In all honesty, i’m cursing, too.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/15/us/15land.html

That’s the context of my day job. Tiffany’s a win, Trevor’s a lose, and our batting average is about .700, as you can read in the article. Which isn’t good enough, d*** it. I’m almost sorry i can’t freely throw the f-bomb around like many of you, because i’m in the right mood for it after reading this article just after doing a “Trevor” mediation at 7:30 this am.

By: brian stouder

brian stouder — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:05:37 +0000

And it’s worth noting that if the bullshit factories work long and diligently enough spewing their ‘product’ across cable tv and mid-day radio, eventually some small number of their bullshit-covered shit-for-brains consumers will ‘blossom’ into something else.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30222789/

The Pittsburg shooter looks a lot like a bullshit factory turd blossom

By: mark

mark — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 12:57:35 +0000

Well that’s the kind of service that earns you a loyal following.

By: nancy

nancy — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 12:52:48 +0000

You were probably in law school or maybe a high chair, Mark -- it was a while ago (1992). Background.

By: mark

mark — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 12:49:21 +0000

.…Woody Allen.…?

By: Cosmo Panzini

Cosmo Panzini — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 12:39:19 +0000

Fox News on the TV in the police station? What a surprise. Just for fun, when the opportunity arises and cops are around, I like to refer to Faux News as The Bullshit Factory.