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Malcolm Fleschner: No time like Father Time
- There’s no question that, compared with previous generations, today’s dads are much more involved in their kids’ lives.
Malcolm Fleschner: That’s disinter-tainment!
- As a journalist, I’m frequently surprised at how misinformed most members of the general public are about what it takes to be a media commentator. True, a great deal of our work involves hard-nosed news-gathering, by which I mean attending exclusive cocktail parties to discuss with other highly paid media commentators how misinformed most members of the general public are.
- As a journalist, I’m frequently surprised at how misinformed most members of the general public are about what it takes to be a media commentator. True, a great deal of our work involves hard-nosed news-gathering, by which I mean attending exclusive cocktail parties to discuss with other highly paid media commentators how misinformed most members of the general public are.
Malcolm Fleschner: Advertisers catch the madness
- What I want to know is, can’t the nation’s advertisers leave a single holiday alone, or must every day on the calendar be reduced to another crass opportunity to sell us something?
Malcolm Fleschner: Something Wiki this way comes
- If there’s one thing I have always strived to achieve with this column, it’s to someday get through my first sentence without having to stop to ask myself a question like, “Wait, is it ‘strived,’ or ‘strove?’ Or maybe ‘striven’? It can’t be ‘stroved,’ can it? ‘Strought?’ ”
Malcolm Fleschner: Deface the nation
- From a marketing standpoint, the best move ever made by the folks who enjoy defacing public property was to rebrand themselves as “graffiti artists.”
Malcolm Fleschner: This gift thing is going too far
- Like most Americans, you were no doubt outraged at the news that the Internal Revenue Service was planning to go after Hollywood celebrities who fail to pay taxes on the gift baskets they receive as presenters at the big awards shows.
Malcolm Fleschner: Time to spice up those boring reality shows
- I admit that I get pretty annoyed whenever anyone badmouths Americans by suggesting we’re overly obsessed with celebrities. “That’s really offensive,” I tell them. “How dare you make generalizations about a whole culture based solely on the activities of a small minority, particularly while I’m trying to watch ‘Access Hollywood’?”
Malcolm Fleschner: Time to put out your butts
- Almost as soon as the rumors started to circulate that Illinois Sen. Barack Obama was considering a run for the presidency, certain questions arose. Though the nation has no doubt made great strides to combat bigotry, pundits noted, the sad fact remains that certain prejudices still exist in our society. Nevertheless, these experts wondered, when confronted with such a handsome, charismatic candidate, could the 21st century American electorate finally abandon its stereotypes and elect a president who is — gulp! — a smoker?
Malcolm Fleschner: There is a reason only English is spoken so loudly
- I’m as open-minded as the average American, but when I read that the public school system in my hometown, Palo Alto, Calif., was considering adopting a “Mandarin Immersion” program, I admit I was foursquare against the idea. Pardon my ignorance, but how is some new-age fad like being dipped in orange slices supposed to help children learn anything? And where does it end?
Malcolm Fleschner: Welcome back, clutter
- Like millions of Americans, you may have difficulty parting with excess personal items that have outlived their usefulness. To determine whether you exhibit any telltale signs of so-called “packrat” behavior, take this short quiz:
Malcolm Fleschner: Trump and O’Donnell: An update on your fight information
- These days it’s impossible to avoid hearing the latest unpleasant news emerging from what some have called the “defining struggle of the 21st century.” Yet as this seemingly pointless conflict drags on with little end in sight, many Americans have begun to wonder why we ever got involved in the first place and, perhaps more importantly, just what can be done to stop it. The sad reality, however, is that the only people capable of ending the fighting are the same folks who started it in the first place: Rosie O’Donnell and Donald Trump.
Malcolm Fleschner: Closing the book on an ugly stereotype
- Would you be surprised to learn that most librarians, despite their fuddy duddy reputation, are actually wild party animals who only wear those frumpy high-collared shirts to hide all their hickeys and tattoos?
Malcolm Fleschner: Relationships can be such a chore
- Whenever women’s magazines poll their readers on the most common sources of conflict in relationships, the most frequent responses tend to be: A) “Lack of communication”; B) “Money troubles”; and C) “Not enough help with household chores, like the way he always tosses dirty underwear on the hamper — not in the hamper, mind you, but on top of it. God only knows what would happen if he ever bothered to put his dirty clothes in the hamper itself. It’s like he’s afraid there’s something alive in there that’s going to reach out and grab him if he ever opens the lid. Which, considering how nasty his jockey shorts get by the time he stops wearing them, he may actually be right about that.”
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