Tag: "Andrew Malcolm"
The Delivery Presents – Delayed but Delivered!
Good thing we have a ready fallback day to record the show or you wouldn’t be able to feast on the sonic lusciousness that is Episode 59. Here’s the tale. I got a call Tuesday morning, not long before lunch, that there was no internet service at The Delivery World Distribution Center and Bistro. Apparently, [...]
The Delivery Presents – Books and Blogs with Melissa and Malcolm
Episode 45 is in the can and you’ll want to hear this one if you have ever a sliver of a geek bone in your body. A couple of months ago, Melissa Clouthier was on the show and broached the idea of doing a regular Book Club show. She suggested Terry Pratchett’s Guards! Guards! and [...]
Happy Bloggy Birthday, Andrew!
This past Friday, my friend Andrew Malcolm celebrated his blog’s third anniversary. Top of the Ticket is a rara avis in the blogging world. It manages to read and behave like a blog even though it is backed by a major media entity and staffed with veteran journalists. It links, gives love to other bloggers, [...]
How Fox News Almost Gave Us President Gore
Andrew Malcolm has unearthed an interesting little tidbit from Karl Rove’s upcoming book. One of the overlooked details of the forever-fight over the widely-debated conservative leanings of the Fox News Channel (besides the fact that a third of its viewers are Democrats) is that it was Fox that broke the then-shocking story in 2000 of [...]
Two Great Articles by Two Fine Writers
Here are a couple great quotes from what’s turning out to be a banner day for a blogger looking for good stuff to link. First up, David Harsanyi, on being dressed down by professional panic-monger Ray LaHood: In his best Illinois tough-guy form, LaHood was in the middle of grandstanding about the need for new [...]
On America’s Birthday, the Declaration of Independence and Ray Charles
Tomorrow is America’s 233rd Birthday and I have to say that she’s still looking pretty darned good for her age. She is the longest-running constitutional republic in the world, the greatest nation ever to exist on the face of the Earth and, despite recent setbacks, the guardian of freedom and liberty around the globe. I [...]
You Know What’ll Save Newspapers? A Conversation with John Kerry.
Andrew Malcolm is not terribly impressed with John Kerry, who has decided to hold a Congressional hearing to try to save newspapers. Because if there’s one thing in the world capable of saving an industry intent on flushing itself down the toilet, it’s a Congressional hearing presided over by John Kerry. Do take a moment [...]
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