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The state of the culture

Football follies

Well, there goes the last shred of good will I had for the Circle City's crazed embrace of the Super Bowl:

Indianapolis, IL, United States (AHN)

Fat boy and little men

Too bad, so sorry. You're just too fat to be president, Mr. Christie.

Michael Kinsley:

Our amusing economy

Hallmark says these new cards are selling well, which is either a sign we've accepted the "new normal" or that we've become totally dependent on superficial, secondhand banalities in our interpersonal communications:

In the business of selling sentiments, there's a card for everything, from traditional occasions to unique needs: cards with sound, cards for holidays, cards for losing a tooth.

But losing a job?

Say hello to my little friend

Blogs, bah, Tweets

An interesting phenomenon explored: Why have journalists, who spent so much time and energy bashing blogs, been so taken with Twitter?

I find the question especially interesting because Twitter seems to have all the bad aspects of blogging and none of its strengths. Smith offers two reasons why he tweets so much despite being paid to blog: Twitter is faster and it is now the dominant medium of online political “conversation”.

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No big deal?

Many people have noticed that the normal rules of etiquette don't seem to apply online. The language is rougher, the spirit meaner, the rules for civility a whole lot looser. It appears that this tendency is only going to get stronger in the future:

Rough patch

See, it was all well and good to stop calling people bums and tramps and winos and use the much more sensitive term "homeless." But you know what happens when we try to change reality by changing perception. The new, better word starts being used the same way the old one was. Be honest, when you hear "homeless," you think "bum." So we new an even newer, more sensitive term than homeless. Oh, wait, here's one:

Snort, snort

Patdown

Another good reason to just stay home and watch all the games on the big-screen TV:

The NFL wants all fans patted down from the ankles up this season to improve fan safety.

Till dementia us do part

Pat Robertson strikes again:

Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson told his "700 Club" viewers that divorcing a spouse with Alzheimer's is justifiable because the disease is "a kind of death."

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