car·riage re·turnn. the lever or mechanism on a typewriter that would cause the cylinder on which the paper was held (the carriage) to return to the left margin of the page | 10 April 2008 18:46 Al Franken should have moved out of his glass house when he “moved”from New York to Minnesota to run for a US Senate seat. Franken,of course,is the author of such discourse-promoting,playground language-filled literature as Rush Limbaugh Is A Big Fat Idiot and Lies and the Lying Read on… 4 April 2008 19:33 One of my other writing engagements is as a columnist for my hometown newspaper,the Winona Daily News. My columns generally appear bi-weekly,and occasionally I’ve shared content between posts I’ve written here and what winds up published in the paper. A little while back,Tim asked me to post a teaser and link Read on… | Objective"So much for Objective Journalism. Don’t bother to look for it here -- not under any byline of mine;or anyone else I can think of. With the possible exception of things like box scores,race results,and stock market tabulations,there is no such thing as Objective Journalism. The phrase itself is a pompous contradiction in terms." --Hunter S. Thompson |