tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post9096718093474006722..comments2024-03-28T16:18:12.319-04:00Comments on the daily howler: This just in on kittens and sweets!<b>bob somerby</b>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02963464534685954436noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-89927615218698916532013-09-10T12:16:23.981-04:002013-09-10T12:16:23.981-04:00Bob somehow forgot to include a link to Kevin Drum...Bob somehow forgot to include a link to Kevin Drum insightful weekly Friday piece on cats:<br /><br />http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2013/09/friday-cat-blogging-6-september-2013<br /><br />That wouldn't be because Drum sometimes throws traffic this way, would it? I mean Drum's cat-blogging must be of some higher quality than what Bob criticizes at the NY Times.<br /><br />Sad.<br /><br />Trollmesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-80250407261967842352013-09-09T18:46:53.736-04:002013-09-09T18:46:53.736-04:00I wondered if Bob had considered the NYT piece on ...I wondered if Bob had considered the NYT piece on gender and Harvard Business School, selling a big load of nothing with more of those highly informative statistics the Times is known for.<br /><br /><i>By graduation, the school had become a markedly better place for female students, according to interviews with more than 70 professors, administrators and students, <b>who cited </b> more women participating in class, <b>record numbers </b>of women winning academic awards and a much-improved environment, down to the male students drifting through the cafeteria wearing T-shirts celebrating the 50th anniversary of the admission of women. Women at the school finally felt like, “ ‘Hey, people like me are an equal part of this institution,’ ” said Rosabeth Moss Kanter, a longtime professor.</i><br /><br />Care to quantify any of that bullshit, NYT?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-81994051137398016762013-09-09T18:02:48.257-04:002013-09-09T18:02:48.257-04:00The New York Times has the best of both worlds. T...The New York Times has the best of both worlds. Thanks to their past quality and thanks to a lack of competition, they're regarded as the leading serious news organ. However, they can fill their pages with trashy articles and thus compete with the tabloids for readers. In fact, they're the go-to source for those people who like to read trash, but who would be embarrassed to be caught reading the National Enquirer. David in Calnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-61689107946740553412013-09-09T14:29:58.922-04:002013-09-09T14:29:58.922-04:00I'm starving.I'm starving.CeceliaMchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16017255006204800193noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-65804180542910699932013-09-09T13:40:25.540-04:002013-09-09T13:40:25.540-04:00Newspapers aren't just about hard news. Ephron...Newspapers aren't just about hard news. Ephron's was just another of those puff pieces that have traditionally made the fat Sunday Times a pleasure to curl up with on a lazy weekend while waiting for the British shows on PBS or that rare genuinely interesting segment on BookTV.<br /><br />Speaking of which, wasn't that 1998 reading from P. J. O'Rourke fun? He's no pundit but seems conversant enough with his subject to talk interestingly about it. He's not funny enough, as Hitchens once said, to be a real humorist, but funny enough to keep our attention and make us chortle every 10 minutes or so.<br /><br />I met him once and he was just like is on TV. He's too nice and charming a guy in person to be the Menckenesque curmugeon he tries to be in his writing.<br /><br />As for Dowd's latest, a journalist is never more guilty of novelizing than when she purports to analyze real-life people as if she were a Victorian novelist describing the inner life of her characters.<br /><br /> Jeeves Stumphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17716700263908484003noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-32169662981459666982013-09-09T13:15:00.277-04:002013-09-09T13:15:00.277-04:00These are the things les riches of NYC like to rea...These are the things les riches of NYC like to read.<br /><br />Tomorrow I will cast my ballot in the primary, without any help from Collins or Dowd.Michael Janavelnoreply@blogger.com