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A career writer and media maven, Jim Stinson is the author of four mystery novels and a college textbook, Video: Digital Communication and Production. His newest novel, Tassy Morgan's Bluff, will be out from Penguin Books in June 2011. He lives with his wife in Portland, OR.

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16 Articles, 0 Quick Links, 76 Comments, 2 Diaries, 0 Polls

76 Comments


Saturday, October 31, 2009 at 2:05:34 PM

Article : "Hey, CNN: It's News, Stupid!"

THNX!


Friday, October 30, 2009 at 6:57:21 PM

Article : "Hey, CNN: It's News, Stupid!"

Ohhhh-kay


Friday, October 30, 2009 at 6:52:38 PM

Article : "Hey, CNN: It's News, Stupid!"

CBC


Friday, June 19, 2009 at 3:38:13 PM

Article : "Health Care: How Can We Follow the Money?"

Thanks!


Tuesday, January 6, 2009 at 3:38:55 PM

Article : "Why the roof don't git fixed"

Got it


Tuesday, January 6, 2009 at 12:58:33 PM

Article : "Why the roof don't git fixed"

Um...


Thursday, December 18, 2008 at 2:50:53 PM

Article : "Three Cups of Tea for Rick Warren"

The dangers of metaphor


Monday, November 24, 2008 at 6:15:22 PM

Article : "David Brooks worries me"

Me too.


Tuesday, November 18, 2008 at 4:13:14 PM

Article : "How to respond to anti-Obama racism"

Agreed


Tuesday, November 11, 2008 at 3:56:58 PM

Article : "Obama Mania"

Hubris


Tuesday, November 11, 2008 at 3:55:17 PM

Article : "Obama Mania"

Okay


Monday, November 10, 2008 at 7:19:58 PM

Article : "Obama Mania"

The End Is Near! The End Is Near!!


Monday, November 10, 2008 at 6:51:13 PM

Article : "Party Building"

Okay, I'm puckered up and ready


Monday, November 10, 2008 at 6:29:21 PM

Quicklink : "For Obama, next-gen voters, next-gen doers"

Service is not just for kids


Monday, October 6, 2008 at 4:59:06 PM

Article : "How Do You Reconcile With Obama's Record and Ultimately Vote"

Those who fail to learn the lessons of history...


Sunday, September 28, 2008 at 9:48:38 PM

Article : "How McCain cheapens his admirable history"

More background


Saturday, September 27, 2008 at 5:01:34 PM

Article : "How McCain cheapens his admirable history"

Why I bent over backwards


Thursday, September 25, 2008 at 3:05:47 PM

Article : "Iraq All Over Again: Bush, Paulson and Bernanke are Just Cry"

Great advice


Wednesday, September 3, 2008 at 4:20:37 PM

Article : "Beware of Yahoo "News" stories"

Another Portal war story


Tuesday, August 26, 2008 at 8:47:38 PM

Quicklink : "Networks Sleep While Democracy Burns"

PBS? Not out here


Wednesday, August 20, 2008 at 7:18:37 PM

Article : "New Zogby/Reuters Poll: Obama Down 5, in Deep Doo Doo"

Gunshot wound in foot


Wednesday, August 20, 2008 at 7:17:15 PM

Article : "New Zogby/Reuters Poll: Obama Down 5, in Deep Doo Doo"

Okay, let's calm down


Wednesday, July 16, 2008 at 2:21:37 PM

Article : "New Yorker Depicted Obama Horribly Wrong, but Got It Horribl"

Right on!


Wednesday, July 16, 2008 at 2:08:53 PM

Article : "The Obama Cartoon"

Knuckleheads can see


Tuesday, July 15, 2008 at 1:34:10 PM

Article : "The Obama Cartoon"

what is satire?


Wednesday, July 9, 2008 at 3:38:41 PM

Article : "Obama, Gun Rights and the Supreme Court"

Strict construction is not the same as literal construction


Saturday, July 5, 2008 at 2:32:04 PM

Diary : "Please Comment:: A Conversation about Raising the Quality of"

[sigh]


Saturday, July 5, 2008 at 2:26:52 PM

Diary : "Please Comment:: A Conversation about Raising the Quality of"

Cutting thru the B*llsh*t


Friday, July 4, 2008 at 6:17:56 PM

Diary : "Please Comment:: A Conversation about Raising the Quality of"

Freedom of the press


Friday, July 4, 2008 at 6:09:46 PM

Diary : "Please Comment:: A Conversation about Raising the Quality of"

stupid me.


Friday, July 4, 2008 at 5:58:57 PM

Diary : "Please Comment:: A Conversation about Raising the Quality of"

query from a word weenie


Tuesday, July 1, 2008 at 6:37:15 PM

Poll : "Poll: Is Barack Obama moving too far to the right just to be"

Obama isn't going anywhere


Monday, June 30, 2008 at 2:44:45 PM

Quicklink : ""Obama No" by Adolph Reed, Jr. Professor of Political Scienc"

Consider the source


Sunday, June 1, 2008 at 4:17:38 PM

Quicklink : "Clinton camp enraged by Michigan, Florida delegate solution"

Ironic


Sunday, May 25, 2008 at 4:54:15 PM

Article : "The Pros and Cons of an Obama-Clinton Ticket"

Dang!


Sunday, May 25, 2008 at 4:53:08 PM

Article : "The Pros and Cons of an Obama-Clinton Ticket"

Regretabbly, no.


Saturday, May 24, 2008 at 4:04:09 PM

Article : "Bending Over For Bush - 21 Dems Help with $165 Bil."

A footnote


Saturday, May 24, 2008 at 3:54:42 PM

Article : "The Environmental Threat in the Living Room"

Yea!


Wednesday, May 21, 2008 at 8:40:17 PM

Article : "The Environmental Threat in the Living Room"

This just in...


Wednesday, May 21, 2008 at 8:35:52 PM

Article : "The Crumbling of the Fifth Column: A Commentary on the Sad"

I do that myself.


Wednesday, May 21, 2008 at 8:32:32 PM

Article : "Oregon & Kentucky: Scribbled sigs & moonshine math"

Okay


Wednesday, May 21, 2008 at 4:45:10 PM

Article : "The Inexperience Knock may be a Bigger Hazard than Race to O"

Yes, but what now?


Wednesday, May 21, 2008 at 4:10:06 PM

Article : "Oregon & Kentucky: Scribbled sigs & moonshine math"

Error vs. corruption


Wednesday, May 21, 2008 at 3:44:40 PM

Article : "The Crumbling of the Fifth Column: A Commentary on the Sad"

Fifth Column?


Tuesday, May 20, 2008 at 11:29:48 AM

Article : "The Environmental Threat in the Living Room"

Thanks!


Friday, May 16, 2008 at 7:33:09 PM

Article : "Governor O'Malley and the "Moral Imperative" of Nuclear Powe"

"Safe" Nuclear energy


Thursday, May 15, 2008 at 2:03:15 PM

Article : "Clinton or Obama? Feminist Angst and Single-Issue Politics"

The argument's off the rails


Thursday, May 15, 2008 at 1:56:51 PM

Article : "The Race Card and the Truth"

Glad you agree with me


Monday, May 12, 2008 at 2:15:44 PM

Article : "Michigan and Florida: What Happened; Who's Responsible?"

They do count


Sunday, May 11, 2008 at 3:39:17 PM

Article : "Clinton or Obama? Feminist Angst and Single-Issue Politics"

Feminism and your ordeal


Sunday, May 11, 2008 at 3:22:54 PM

Article : "Clinton or Obama? Feminist Angst and Single-Issue Politics"

sounds good to me...


Saturday, April 26, 2008 at 3:05:48 PM

Quicklink : "Ralph Nader: Disintegration is Everywhere"

Right, but...


Thursday, April 24, 2008 at 7:54:55 PM

Quicklink : "I'm Surrounded by Obama-philes!"

Old Politics


Wednesday, April 23, 2008 at 1:42:11 PM

Article : "To Impeach before Nov 4, Do Something Different, Quickly!"

Getting Real


Wednesday, April 23, 2008 at 1:18:04 AM

Article : "To Impeach before Nov 4, Do Something Different, Quickly!"

Let's keep our eye on the ball


Sunday, April 20, 2008 at 3:45:25 PM

Article : "Barack Obama - Subplots of Operation Board Games - Part I"

Journalist rights and responsibilities


Saturday, April 19, 2008 at 2:03:33 PM

Article : "Dear Barack: Non Carborundum Illegitimatum"

Elitist Cambridge


Friday, April 18, 2008 at 7:45:47 PM

Article : "Dear Barack: Non Carborundum Illegitimatum"

Liberated Latin


Friday, April 18, 2008 at 7:40:36 PM

Article : "Barack Obama - Subplots of Operation Board Games - Part I"

Says who?


Wednesday, April 9, 2008 at 11:43:02 AM

Diary : "Charlton Heston Dies"

Fonda's expertise??


Sunday, April 6, 2008 at 2:18:16 PM

Diary : "Charlton Heston Dies"

Celebrity = authority?


Sunday, March 30, 2008 at 12:33:05 AM

Article : "Reading Bob Casey's Obama Endorsement and the future of the"

Obama bow out?


Monday, March 24, 2008 at 8:49:58 PM

Article : "New Anti-Obama Smears in Tabloids Owned by Staunch Clintonis"

Tabloids do influence


Wednesday, March 12, 2008 at 5:03:05 PM

Article : "Is it Oba-Black-Mail?"

Let's back off a little


Wednesday, March 12, 2008 at 1:08:33 PM

Diary : "Misogyny by Any Other Name: No, Charlotte Allen, Women Aren'"

Giving access to idiots


Tuesday, March 11, 2008 at 12:36:57 PM

Article : "Douglas Feith coming out with book"

Dumbth


Tuesday, March 11, 2008 at 12:28:46 PM

Diary : "Impeachment Still Off The Table. Why Are We Surprised?"

Elections first, please


Friday, March 7, 2008 at 6:37:01 PM

Article : "Senator Obama Should Apologize to the U.S. Senate"

Oops


Friday, March 7, 2008 at 2:16:45 PM

Article : "Senator Obama Should Apologize to the U.S. Senate"

The senate and the war


Thursday, March 6, 2008 at 2:15:34 PM

Article : "Here's How Obama Should Fight Back"

Well done!


Monday, March 3, 2008 at 6:43:12 PM

Diary : "Nader : McCain's Best Friend? - Open Discussion"

Your credentials


Friday, February 22, 2008 at 4:10:49 PM

Diary : "What's With This Picture?"

It's about visual literacy


Wednesday, February 20, 2008 at 4:08:09 PM

Article : "School administration: the education reform they don't talk"

Treat teachers as professionals.


Saturday, February 16, 2008 at 1:32:06 PM

Article : "CELEBRATING UN-PRESIDENTS DAY: WHY I WILL NOT VOTE FOR A PRE"

Nearsighted deja vu


Thursday, February 14, 2008 at 10:08:56 PM

Article : "CELEBRATING UN-PRESIDENTS DAY: WHY I WILL NOT VOTE FOR A PRE"

meanwhile, back at reality


Wednesday, January 23, 2008 at 5:20:59 PM

Article : "Martin Luther King, Jr.: His Day and Every Day"

Progress since King