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The Irony Supplement
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The intersection of media, news and the economy
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Taking Pot Shots
An acquaintance of mine disclosed a rich history of LSD usage over a recent lunch. “You can take drugs and not have them ruin your life,” he declared. I could dismiss him as a deluded liberal hippie goofball, but he’s run a couple of large publ...
Y’all Wanna Move to Roosha?
“Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation we began by declaring that ‘all men are created equal.’ When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read ‘all men are created equal, except Negroes and fore...
We Should All Be So Dov-ish
I’ve visited many company headquarters in my years as a journalist. Only one has been more memorable than a pallet of two-by-fours. Indeed, American Apparel’s offices and plant just east of downtown Los Angeles is by far the most dynamic place of...
Rainey’s Precipitation Redux
I confess to erring when I wrote a couple of months ago that the L.A. Times editors should consider running white space in lieu of James Rainey’s media column. Instead, he’s become the gift that keeps on – well, you can guess the rest. In yet a...
Horton Hears A Boo
As I inch toward earning my masters degree in English, the most instructive portion has not been the critical readings, the research papers or the lectures. It’s been teaching freshman composition. The classwork has prompted both myself and my stud...
Rainey’s Precipitation
When I ran the satirical business news blog The Walnut some years ago, I wrote a story about the Wall Street Journal running blank pages to save money on staff. The Journal had just gone through a round of layoffs (a relatively mild one compared to t...
