THE WAPO’S FEELINGS ARE HURT: “What was the most important thing for readers of Washington Post to see on the front-page of the paper Sunday morning? A headline focusing directly on the death of Antonin Scalia? No. In bold, large font, the Post declared, ‘Supreme Court Conservative Dismayed Liberals.'”
As somebody once said, the best tribute to a conservative life well led is an angry Times or Post obit — and as Scott Whitlock of NewsBusters adds, not surprisingly, the Gray Lady is also plenty thrilled that Justice Scalia is no longer around to give their core readers — and writers — the vapors.
Related: In his latest Bleat, James Lileks writes:
Ding! Notification on phone. Pick it up: Scalia’s dead. Stare at the phone for a while. Tell self: don’t go on Twitter.
Go on Twitter.
Ah, the halcyon innocent days of three hours before, when one’s view of humanity still contained a few atoms of hope and charity, before the phrase “by their tweets shall ye know them” came to mind again.
And in a much lighter vein, a look at video mash-ups, the very early days, that time when Nick and Nora Charles solved a crime involving Robbie the Robot, for no other reason than both The Thin Man and Forbidden Planet happened to be MGM properties.