By PAUL E. SCHINDLER JR. I am from Portland, Oregon, Beaumont ’66, Benson High ’70, MIT ’74. Some things are impossible to know, but it is impossible to know these things.
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August 30, 2026
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August 23, 2026
Anyone who has ever seen a Looney Tunes is required by law to watch this film in a theater. Coyote opens Aug. 28; buy your tickets now.
The live action/animated hybrid is laugh-out-loud funny from stem to stern—a distance which, at 101 minutes, only barely violated my rule that no movie needs to be more than 90 minutes long. We’re not talking polite giggles here; full-scale belly laughs.
Roger Rabbit’s in danger of having his crown knocked off.
A tip of the PSACOT hat to the four readers who will recognize the 1970 inside joke represented by the title.
August 23, 2026
Somehow, I failed to note the bicentennial of the best piece ever written about trade journalism: Mark Twain: How I Edited An Agricultural Paper (1870).
It is a roman à clef of Twain’s month at the helm of InformationWeek magazine in August 1985[1], when I wrote a third of the magazine myself. You could check that claim if there were an extant copy of InformationWeek from that month—or any other. The Twain essay is the opening shot of my 40,000 word Journalism Reader, which probably sets a WordPress record for length. Also available in ointment or suppository form, or as the Paul Schindler’s Journalism Reader PDF (140 pages long).
[1] With a 115-year Hold For Release
August 23, 2026
Tangents Beg Attention
I banish my longer, more off-topics writing to what WordPress calls pages. They are all interesting, but here are two especially good ones:
Idioms Only Americans Would Know
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Perhaps blessed by a near perfect memory
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Historian Provides Vital Reading
Heather Cox Richardson: Letters from an American An historian offers a calm daily look at the news.
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Disney v. Ass Hat
Disney is going to court to defend its ABC television stations from the Trump administration’s pressure campaign. Looking at you, FCC lickspittle Brendan “Blackmail” Carr.
August 23, 2026
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August 16, 2026
A tip of the PSACOT hat to my former editor, Mike Elgan,
August 16, 2026
AI Lies, Cheats Steals, according to this article, which you can read for free thanks to me.
Quotes:
Originality Through A (Martini) Glass Darkly
“Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not possibly have met.”
—Fran Lebowitz, Metropolitan Life (1978)
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Indication of Character
“People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson. “Essays and Lectures”, p. 391, Library of America
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Is Correlation Causation?
According to a post on LinkedIn, It Depends.
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Parodying That Which Is Beyond Parody
Ice Required Bill of Rights Training
