Jim Slusher
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The pirates who would drown us in the Sea of NothingJan 18, 2012 11:00 pm - Wikipedia and a handful of other important global websites went dark Wednesday to protest legislation in Congress that they see as overly broad and potentially dangerous...
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Snow job: We’re on top of it, whatever comesJan 12, 2012 4:00 am - Imagine a meeting of editors sitting around a table, most with electronic information devices at hand, as well as at least three newspapers. Here’s how people talk about...
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Tracking the elusive ‘stealth candidate’Dec 15, 2011 4:00 am - The “stealth candidate.” It may not be a term you’re intimately familiar with unless you cover elections for a living, and it may seem as counterintuitive to you as it d...
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Blagojevich, Santo and other inscrutable questionsDec 08, 2011 4:00 am - An array of short subjects today: Ÿ First, one of the sorriest, if not saddest comments I've heard related to the Blagojevich sentencing, from executive editor Madeleine...
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Editorial cartoon is a savage worth tamingDec 01, 2011 4:00 am - Editorial cartoons are a dicey business. The great Pat Oliphant described them as “inherently negative,” and though many great examples could be summoned to contradict t...
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Some ‘things as they are’ are also ‘as they ought to be’Nov 23, 2011 11:00 pm - In his “Devil’s Dictionary,” 19th century American author Ambrose Bierce described a “cynic” as “a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ou...
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The high cost of an open mind in a free societyNov 10, 2011 3:00 am - When it comes to following proceedings against people accused of crimes or even misbehavior, democracy and the American justice system require a lot of you. They require...
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Here’s reality you can sink your teeth intoNov 02, 2011 5:00 am - What is reality? I love that line. It takes me back to college, which takes me back to one of my favorite Firesign Theater scenes, which takes me back to high school gym...
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Let viewer decide on graphic news photographsOct 27, 2011 5:00 am - When tyrants die, it’s often not pretty. But the death of Moammar Gadhafi was especially brutal. You can get the idea and then some with a simple YouTube search. But our...
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Opinion page even more valuable to help tame WebOct 20, 2011 5:00 am - The question to a panel of editorial page editors at a recent workshop may have struck a little too close to home for comfort: With so much newspaper content migrating o...