Jerz's Literacy Weblog

Rewatching ST:DS9 Rom and Leeta can’t agree on her wedding dress. Garak is guardedly amused by Ziyal’s faith in his tailoring skills. Quark just wants Leeta back at work. In his role as Emissary, Sisko agrees to perform the marriage ceremony. A crowd assembled on the promenade reacts as the wormhole opens, admitting the latest in a punctual convoy of Dominion forces headed to Cardassia. At…

I remember in the mid 1990s, typing a lot of URLs, and following links that people added to lists, and people put their favorite links on their “personal home page” so they could find them easily. Seeing what people thought was worth linking to was fascinating.   On someone’s page I found a link that said Yahoo! Not knowing what it was, I clicked, and found the entry page to a massive…

The New York Times reviewed over a dozen hours of cabinet meeting footage to analyze how his administration spoke to him. On average, at least one of every six sentences either flattered Mr. Trump, gave him credit or criticized his political opponents. Allison Schuster, a White House spokeswoman, said in an email that Mr. Trump’s cabinet used these meetings to “highlight the exhaustive list of…

Rewatching ST:DS9 Sisko is glum after his sulky senior staff spoil his dinner party. Learning that Kai Winn is coming to the station tomorrow does not help. At the bar, Quark encourages Jake and Nog to attend tomorrow’s charity auction, featuring this episode’s macguffin: a Wille Mays rookie card — just the thing Jake decides will cheer up his dad. Because humans have “decided to abandon…

My social media feed today is full of references to last night’s Stephen Colbert’s finale, but I’m here to pour one out for CBS News Radio. In the late 1980s I interned in the newsroom of WINA-Charlottesville, and that summer I had a full-time paid position. By the end of that time slot I was delivering news live on the air. One day I showed up during a power outage, when nothing worked but a…