
Maybe this is why some of my students are so f&#!ing illiterate.
After hinting that it wasn't going to allow The National Enquirer to compete, the body that oversees the Pulitzer Prizes has reversed course and decided to accept the tabloid's submissions. This isn't going to please a lot of old-school journalism grandees, but it was the intellectually honest thing to do. Nice job.Oooooh-kaaaay... I am willing to go along with this, despite your apparent conflation of "old-school journalism grandees" and "people who actually read newspapers", because I am morbidly curious as to what your argument is...
To understand why the Enquirer ought to be eligible, all you really need to know is that the Pulitzer committee's eligibility criteria range from vague to subjective to nonexistent. Is the Enquirer's reporting "distinguished"? That's a matter of opinion. Does it adhere to "the highest journalistic principles"? Well, probably not all the time -- but, then, who does?Ah, of course: the Dick Cheney school of journalism.
No, the National Enquirer isn't the kind of publication upon whom Pulitzer judges usually bestow their blessing, and perhaps with good reason (emphasis mine)Which suggests to me that he is quite aware he's whistling Dixie and would like to leave himself the room to step back from the giant, journalistic dookie he's just dropped (if you'll permit a mixed and distasteful metaphor).
The Hull East MP, who has admitted suffering from the eating disorder bulimia, said he loved [fasion expert Gok] Wan's Channel 4 programme How to Look Good Naked, particularly one which featured a disabled woman.And if the words "Prescott" and "naked" together in a sentence haven't made you recoil from your browser window in disgust, there's also this:
Mr Prescott is also a fan of micro-blogging website Twitter, telling BBC Radio 5 live that they key to good "tweets" was "to be yourself and use humour".(Dedicated readers may remember my last tribute to Prescott back in 2006, along with accompanying quiz.)
In the US, the House of Representatives recently passed a bill to curb loud advertisements.So that's what they've been doing all this time!
COATBRIDGE, Scotland — What is it about Buckfast Tonic Wine that makes it so alluring to consumers and yet so repulsive to politicians?I'm so glad that Buckfast is the reason Scotland is bursting into the global public consciousness these days. After the whole Trainspotting thing we were really sitting in too positive a light.
Perhaps it is its special caffeine-and-sweet-wine recipe, which allows overly enthusiastic consumers to be tipsy and bouncy at the same time. Perhaps it is its array of snappy nicknames, including “Wreck the Hoose Juice” — hoose being a Scottish pronunciation of house — [or] Coatbridge Table Wine (others call it “loopy juice,” or, adding their own twist as they channel Travis Bickle, “Who’re you lookin’ at?” wine.)
On average, Scots age 16 and older drank the equivalent of 12.5 quarts of pure alcohol each in 2007, the eighth highest rate in the world.(I think my own alcohol intake at sixteen probably accounts for about half of that.)
The drink is favored by young, rowdy men with a taste for making trouble — “neds,” they are called in Scotland.[N.B. Women can be neds too, actually. We're an equal opportunities horrific binge-drinking culture.]
Hard-core aficionados drink two or three bottles in succession, right down. “They say it doesn’t taste the same out of a glass,” explained a passer-by, Martin Rooney, 48.Oh, COME ON! Where are you interviewing these people, anyway? The Paisley drunk tank on a Friday night? [N.B. The Paisley drunk tank = Paisley]
“It goes straight to your head,” he said, “but it’s not my cup of tea.” (Mr. Rooney noted that his cup of tea is half a bottle of vodka a night.)
Obama told his audience: "When times are tough, you tighten your belts. You don't go buying a boat when you can barely pay your mortgage. You don't blow a bunch of cash on Vegas when you're trying to save for college."Obama's crucial mistake was forgetting that if idiots don't piss away their money in Vegas, then the billionaires who make their money there will have marginally fewer billions lying around — and that gets them worried, so they do stuff like laying off staff and cutting wages, and then there are even more people in the country who shouldn't be blowing cash in Vegas and the circle of life is complete.
"I don't know if Obama has a problem with Las Vegas, but I have a problem with Obama," Rep. Shelley Berkley, a Democrat whose district includes the Las Vegas Strip, said in an interview. . . .Mr Reid continued: "Vegas is busy enough being the poster child for horrible, horrible life decisions, thank you very much."
[Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid] issued a statement saying he told the White House "the president needs to lay off Las Vegas and stop making it the poster child for where people shouldn't be spending their money."