The Only Thing I'm Going to Say about Casey Anthony

This lawyer is pretty much right.

And the fact that CNN is running it on its front page is pretty much symbolic of the circus.

Steven Colbert FTW

Steven Colbert wins so much.

"Colbert is literally wading through the crowd with a credit card swiper."

I would just like to point out that one comedian is engaged in an ongoing media crusade against Fox News, while the other is battling the federal government on campaign finance reform. I think Jon Stewart and Steven Colbert's business cards should read "comedian/social activist."

Lol@Propaganda

North Korea is seriously like either bad serious dystopian fiction or good comedic dystopian fiction. Struck by lightning?

Teaching to the Text Message

This is good stuff.

A wise writing teacher once told me: "shorter isn't better; longer isn't better; better is better." But conciseness is a virtue, and not just in journalism writing.

I think Selsberg has nailed it — there's real potential in teaching kids to write short before writing full. It's a lot easier to let out your writing than it is to rein it in.

Layabouts by Locale

I'm a sucker for lists like this.

Only two cities from my native Louisiana rank in the "most sedentary" list. New Orleans gets a D+ at #68, whereas dear old Baton Rouge gets a C+ at #36.

I suspect I didn't help BR's statistics. I think standing around in the heat oughtta count for something.

"Dark of the Moon" Gets Bad Reviews; No One is Surprised.

Kaboom.

I don't intend to see this movie, for all the reasons mentioned. Also, because anybody who can make movies with as cringeworthy dialogue as Bay's gets no room for the pretentious "Dark of the Moon" title. You, troglodyte, don't get to play games with the English language.

This Week in Duh(mb)

Newsweek's cover is, well, let's just say raising some interesting journalism ethics questions.

Well, not really. It's more just raising some interesting "who in their right mind would be dumb enough to" questions.

Obviously the magazine is trying to cash in on the public's obsession with Princess Diana and with Princess-What's-Her-Name. The fact that Diana still captures the minds of American audiences to the extent that Newsweek might make an ill-advised sortie back into her life amazes me -- in a kind of "palm suddenly applied to face"-type way.