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My younger brother was quite a car-builder in his youth. He made a 1968 Camaro ragtop, dark blue with white stripes and white interior, out of two Camaros. He pulled out the automatic transmission and installed a clutch with a Hurst four-speed. He found a rare Super Sport console with the extra...

I get it now. Small Potatoes and Chris Long are the same person.

You'd make a great editor. Your only criteria for publishing is whether or not there's enough space. Yeah, I can't wait to read your product.

I also DID NOT say editors are "holding back stories that the writers are writing" because they "are more concerned with getting subscriptions." Now there's something that makes no sense.

If you care to go back and read the post carefully, you will see that I wrote "THOSE AT THE TOP OF THE ATHLETIC" are the ones placing the importance on writers generating subscriptions. I never said EDITORS are more concerned with subscriptions. Those at the top may or may not have the title...

I think you all are being quick to blame the writer for not producing enough copy. I think it's more that the editors for whatever reason are choosing not to publish enough. You can't tell me, for example, that Lisa Dillman is only filing one story a week. I'll bet she was cranking out a lot of...

OK, let's spell it out. He got fired. He didn't get a buyout, he got severance, probably the minimum, which should still be pretty good given how long he was there, somewhere around 2 yrs pay. He did not get a farewell column or a farewell press conference or a big farewell party. If Jones had...

Jones' firing was just one of many plus buyouts conducted by Postmedia in recent days. At least one other prominent Western sports reporter was axed but chose not to go public about it. Yes, it was a terrible way to let Jones go. I hear the brass had been trying to get him to retire for a while...

Someone I know who works there said almost exactly this to me the other day. More people are going to get the axe. I think it means the NYT bean-counters have digested the tech bros' books.

There was absolutely nothing subtle about that.

I can only assume the people complaining about Chad's answers are not nor have ever been journalists.

Norm MacLean was the absolute worst moocher who ever invaded a press box. In addition to glomming on to any media guides that weren't nailed down so he could sell them, MacLean never left a press-box spread without filling his pockets, briefcase, etc. He was also notorious for sleeping in the...

Barry Jackson, who doesn't know the either-or, neither-nor rule, broke the Marlins soda scandal.

In her autobiography (the name escapes), Linda Lovelace wrote that Hefner was into bestiality in a big way. She was coerced into a public performance with a German Shepherd. Fortunately for her, another woman at the mansion told her how to act so the dog would not co-operate. Lovelace said...

All right, I've finally had it. It was a long time coming but seeing journalism types use the word drives me insane. OFFLOAD is not a friggin' word. It is corporate jargon. It ranks up there with please be advised and the all-time pisser, going forward. The word is UNLOAD for crying in a sink...