The New York Times (article | PDF), Washington Post (article | PDF), Politico (article | PDF), and any number of major network news outlets did a remarkable thing last week. Almost simultaneously. They reported – without the usual smirks, giggles, eye-rolls or leaving of last words to debunkers – the Pentagon’s admission that it spent $22 million during […]
The Quinnipiac University poll results released this morning show Bernie Sanders moving ahead of Hillary Clinton in Iowa. My first news of this was an article at Politico (Bernie Sanders overtakes Clinton in Iowa) that mentions Clinton by name 31% more often than it does Sanders. In fact, only one of the article’s 15 paragraphs […]
A colleague and I were having coffee when the topic turned to a mutual friend’s fascination with UFOs. I share that fascination, so when my colleague rolled his eyes, well … Things kind of went downhill from there. My first mistake was forgetting that most of the people I’m likely to meet outside a UFO convention get their information about all things Fortean from two […]
