JStrand's blog

In the wake of last weekend’s Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear in Washington D.C., the press have been fighting back against some of Jon Stuart’s rhetoric with scathing remarks and the exact kind of inept interpretation of message that Stuart lambasts to begin with.
 

Oh Brett Favre. For those of you who haven’t heard or who have word sensitive narcolepsy when it comes to “football,” Bret Favre, the man, the myth, the legend, has been getting a lot of press lately for admittedly leaving some indecent phone messages (allegedly) texting x-rated photos of himself to former Jets employee, Jenn Sterger. If you’re interested in hearing the messages or seeing the photos (very nsfw / virgin eyes) you should do at your own discretion.
 

I’d like to talk to you today about e-readers. Ok, no I actually wouldn’t. They’re everywhere. I don’t even own one and I feel like they’re taking over my life, not only because everyone on the El seems to have one, but because the media can’t seem to stop talking about them. And it is exciting – they’ve reinvigorated a dying industry (i.e. publishing) and after all the doom and gloom, it was time the newspaper industry got a break, too. But now we have to deal with the incessant conversation of “is traditional print media dead?”
 

Recently Marie Claire published an article about food bloggers that’s caused quite a stir. In the article, the author suggests that so called “healthy living blogs,” which track the eating and exercise habits of bloggers, might not promote healthy eating habits, but propagate the very unsustainable low-cal, high exercise habits that they purport to live without.

Recently, there’s been quite a few stories in the media about gay youths taking their own lives after experiencing harassment from peers – 18-year old Tyler Clementi, 13-year-old Seth Walsh, Eighth-grader Asher Brown, and