Last Wednesday in Morning File, Tim Bousquet went on a rant. “Stop it,” he wrote. “Stop naming shit after people who are still alive.” The specific object of Tim’s ire that morning was not immediately apparent among the story’s cascading collection of photos of local edifices named after the alive and hopefully well (not to...
“Free To Find A Better Place To Be”: Morning File, Saturday, June 17, 2017
1. A Free Country Tim wrote yesterday about the controversy over the lyrics to the Stanfields’ song A Free Country. As Tim anticipated in the last line of his commentary, the coverage of the story invites accusations of “political correctness gone bad.” After all, the reaction is clearly ridiculous: an obviously satiric song written to criticize […]