December 2011
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Boy Wonder rewrites a Christmas classic
The holiday spirit has its claws in Ian, my 5-year-old son, and he has embraced a favorite seasonal song. He can’t get through it without laughing. You know it. It starts: “Jingle bells, Batman smells/Robin laid an egg … “
But this being Ian, the boy wonder and superhero fanatic, if there’s one Christmas song about superheroes that makes him chuckle well then why not...
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Carr: When Truth Survives Free Speech →
Journalism has experienced a universe of positives as a result of social media and the proliferation of Twitter, Facebook and other online sources as a suped-up vehicle for news. Accountability is on the rise. Scoops, while sometimes poached, are more often shared. Important stories reach broader audiences than ever. One corrosive negative, however, is the fact that professionally trained...
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Explaining Pujols' free agency to a 5-year-old →
One morning in May, The Post-Dispatch ran a photo illustration on its front page that depicted Albert Pujols in a Chicago Cubs uniform. This confused and unnerved by son, who had just turned 5. Ever since he’s been consumed by this notion that Pujols could — gasp! — play for another team. He has waffled from saying that he would find a new Cardinal to cheer to suggesting he would...
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“Journalists travel in packs with transferable tension.”
– Gay Talese, writing about journalism in the early paragraphs of The Kingdom and the Power, but just as easily have been describing baseball writers at the Winter Meetings.
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Teen "forks" friend during fight for Mickey Mantle... →
From The Patriot-News:
A 17-year-old Halifax boy is accused of jamming a fork in another teen’s arm this month during a fight over a Mickey Mantle baseball card, state police said. The boy, whose name was not released because he’s a juvenile, reacted “without thinking,” police said.
Yes, but what Mantle card was it? Only a few years could truly send some collectors to...
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“You should have used your hippocampus.”
– Ian, age 5, commenting on his mother’s memory when she missed a turn on the way home from school.