Daily Archives: January 7, 2010

Writing 101: Know Thy 21st Century Internet Audience

Posted on January 7, 2010 by Santi Tafarella

Below is Michael Kinsley today on the pre-Internet 20th century fluff still typical in old school journalism news stories. Kinsley highlights such stories’ archaic inclination: . . . to accommodate readers who have just emerged from a coma or a coal mine. … Continue reading →

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Would Christian Brit Hume Have Said to Glenn Beck (a Mormon) What He Said to Tiger Woods (a Buddhist)?

Posted on January 7, 2010 by Santi Tafarella

To gage Brit Hume’s sincerity in extending a nationally televised public invitation to Buddhist Tiger Woods to become a Christian (for the proper sort of “forgiveness” supposedly not available to Woods otherwise), I think that we can ask one simple question: … Continue reading →

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Matt Barber on Barack Obama’s Hiring of a Transgendered Bureaucrat

Posted on January 7, 2010 by Santi Tafarella

According to the New Republic today, Matt Barber, an associate dean at the Orwellian named Liberty University, had the following response on hearing that a transgendered person had been hired to work in the federal bureaucracy: [It] boggles the mind. What boggles … Continue reading →

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