An Effin’ Shovel

My late friend KT, a freelance reporter, logged her fair share of public meetings. At one of them, many years ago, she ran across possibly the best public meeting comment ever. I heard about this during a discussion of what is quotable and what ought to be paraphrased, and we should keep in mind that […]

Flight of Irony

Humanity is such a seething mass of contradictions. Two stories on CBS this morning, 40 minutes apart, so far apart that apparently we all missed the sardonic irony. In the second story, CBS’s travel correspondent detailed the re-roll-out of Boeing’s Air Max 737. This is the plane that if I recall correctly had two crashes […]