I began writing this post several days ago. Since then several people have written and spoken about similar issues, some with more international experience, others with more journalism experience, others through Twitter threads, and others with more emotion. There have also been many “letters to my child” articles. And now John Oliver has weighed…
Last night I tweeted the following about the New York Times article, “Militia Charged With Plotting to Murder Officers“: The tweet resulted in a few responses (the second of which, from @kichigai, made the strong case that “I can’t help but think their being Christian helped kill off the label. IE: Terrorists can be…
The June 8, 2009, issue of the “new” Newsweek has a cover article called “Crazy Talk: Oprah, Wacky Cures, & You” by Weston Kosova and Pat Wingert. The print version of the US edition has this cover photo Oprah: My scan of the image does not fully capture the problem, but compare this image…