Beyond the Rhetoric

If you follow me on Twitter or you’re a friend of mine on Facebook, then you might remember a conversation I had with a professional sports commentator a few weeks ago. I’m not going to re-open that conversation, lest I get accused of being an e-bully again, but I’d like to bring up one of [...]

It’s a debate that probably won’t see any official and unanimous resolution any time soon, but that’s all the more reason why it’s worth discussing. If you run just about any kind of blog on the Internet, you may ask yourself whether you should close comments on older posts. That’s what I did for some [...]

And so another month has come in gone. In May 2009, I hosted a Facebook contest and it was reasonably successful. The “I Read Beyond the Rhetoric” Facebook group gained a few new members, including the eventual winner of the contest. As is the norm around these parts, it’s time to acknowledge the other people [...]