The View from a Drawbridge

Tag: journalists

  • I’m Becoming Speculation Averse

    Until the facts are in, there’s no sense in pulling conclusions out of your hind end.

  • The Toynbee Tiles

    Mystery solved.

  • Vicarious Trauma

    You know shit is getting real when your doctor actually prescribes that you don’t watch the news for a week. Between North Korea and Puerto Rico, my blood pressure is higher than it ought to be. So let the news blackout begin. For those of you in the helping professions in particular, vicarious trauma is…

  • Obsolete Jobs

    Sometime within the next four years yet another of the drawbridges that I work on here in town will be replaced by a fixed span flyover bridge, thus putting quite a few bridgetenders out of work. Bridgetenders worldwide are becoming as rare as hen’s teeth. The only chance you have of any future in this…

  • A Newfound Respect for Journalists

    The other day I got an idea for a blog entry. I was going to write about the death of the wristwatch. I mean, I haven’t seen one in ages. And what do you need one for anymore? We have cell phones and laptops and a whole host of other electronic devices that include time…