Musings of the Great Eric

The Big Ten (Nice diagram)
What’s Wrong With This Picture?

Thus what we have today is not a problem wholly new in kind but rather the disastrous upshot of an evolutionary process whereby that old problem has become considerably larger–and that great quantitative change, with just a few huge players now co-directing all the nation’s media, has […]

You can’t make this stuff up. Simply awesome:
Rush Limbaugh was detained for about three-and-a-half hours Monday at Palm Beach International Airport after authorities said they found a bottle of Viagra in his possession without a prescription.

“The problem was that on the bottle itself was not his name, but the name of two Florida doctors,’’ Miller […]

I almost missed this trio of articles that appeared in the Washington Post yesterday, commemorating the tenth anniversary of washingtonpost.com.
The first traces the history of the web site from a 1992 memo through the present day:
It was August 1992. There were no wireless laptops, no BlackBerries, no blogs, no rush to flip on cell phones […]

Just thought you all needed an update on what’s really important. You’d think for all the coverage this got originally the mainstream media would keep us better posted.
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In These Times asks this hypothetical, along with other interesting questions like “What if he was a former athlete?”, “What if he was a pop star?”, and “What if he had been the star of a TV show?”
After all, in a world where OJ Simpson, Scott Peterson, and Michael Jackson get round the clock coverage, […]