Kissing Up

The challenge of being a wire-service reporter is sometimes you are stuck trying to make a news story out of little news. This appears to be the problem AP’s Jennifer Dobner had in covering the nationwide “kiss-ins” that largely failed and tying it...

Wedding Page Blues

I’ll admit that I’m one of those people who loves reading the Weddings/Celebration section of the New York Times, and now the Washington Post.  It’s not that I’m a hopeless romantic, but I love the sociology and anthropology of whose weddings...