A truly great "Take this job and shove it!" moment:
BANGOR, Maine — Citing a longstanding battle with upper management over journalistic practices at their Bangor TV stations, news co-anchors Cindy Michaels and Tony Consiglio announced their resignations at the end of Tuesday’s 6 p.m. newscast.
Actually, I haven't noticed this much myself:
In the hours after Sandy made landfall, noted online wits doffed their aloof masks and hung their heads in solidarity; those who seemed insufficiently somber got chastised. The key word of the storm became hunker—a term that nearly oozes honey glaze and cocoa. “Much of the seen-it-all and isn’t-it-dumb seemed to leak out of my Twitter stream,” the media critic David Carr wrote a couple of days later.
So, Dutch is a lazy, fat cat, so fat that he has trouble grooming in places. And I've been a bad dad who doesn't brush him as often as I should. So he gets clumps, and I asked the vet to shave them off during our annual-checkup visit on Saturday. The operation brought forth some strange sounds from the cat, which I captured with my phone video. For some reason, the sound dropped off sharply when I panned back to include a full view of the vet in the shot, so you can't hear some of the more other-worldly mews. Still funny, though.
Megan McCardle on men and women and "noticing inflation":
Then-defense sercretary Robert M. Gates may have been the civilian leader of the world’s largest military, but his position did not come with household staff. So, he often joked, he disposed of his leaves by blowing them onto the chairman’s lawn.
Small confession: I occasionally check in on Guy Fieri's show on the Food Network, not because I'm a particular fan of the spiky-haired, wear-the-sunglasses-on-the-back-of-the-head cooking personality, but because the places he checks out of "Diners, Drive-ins and Dives" are the kinds of local eateries it's fun to stumble across. But I have to doubt his food judgment after reading this savage New York Times review -- hell, it's an evisceration -- of his new Times Square Restaurant.
Sure hope we find out how innocent or "inappropriate" the emails between General John Allen and Jill Kelley were, so I can sleep at night again:
"Misery loves company" department -- the newspaper industry (and print in general) isn't alone if feeling stressed by everybody's new-media options:
Happy Veterans Day, even though 11/11 was, well, you know, yesterday, and this three-day-weekend crap that ignores the real holiday observances is getting way out of hand.
Here's President Obama, speaking at Arlington National Cemetery yesterday, the right day, thank you very much:
OK, let's do an election once-over before moving on to more important things.
