All about me

Well, duh:

Reuters Health) - A new study offers evidence to support what many people have learned for themselves: never go grocery shopping when you're hungry.

Researchers found that people who hadn't eaten all afternoon chose more high-calorie foods in a simulated supermarket than those who were given a snack just before online food shopping.

It's come to this -- Even "Indie" rock is getting government subsidies:

For the first time, the U.S. government’s trade arm is stepping in to help the music business, funding trade missions to Brazil and Asia in recent months for the heads of a dozen independent music labels, which make up one-third of the U.S. music market.

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Today's "well, duh" entry:

Twitchy calls this the "emptiest threat ever":

It’s been widely reported that, at a recent LA Times staff meeting, fully half in attendance raised their hands when asked if they’d quit if the paper were purchased by the Koch brothers.

The decline of civilization, 140 characters at a time:

A common-sense reason to start school later in the day:

The Kindle of its day, or maybe even the iPhone:

Ouch. Guess it's official now -- I have the worst job in the world:

According to an annual ranking of occupations published today, newspaper reporters have the worst job out there.

I remember having a mildly rough day on the job at the Wabash Plain Dealer. In college -- both for classes and assignments for the Ball State Daily News -- it was one story at a time. You got one assignment, you turned it in, you got another one. On my first day at the Plain Dealer, I was given four stories to work on at about 8:30 in the morning and told I had till the noon deadline to finish them. I remember getting them all done -- luckily, they all required only phone-call sourcing, no trips of the office -- but I felt like I could have done a better job on them.

Lot of nitwittery in my profession on display this week:

In reaction to the defeat of gun control in the U.S. Senate yesterday, editorial pages across the nation are seething with anger, lashing out at rural America, gun manufacturers and the NRA.