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Retired Baltimore Sun editor, flaneur. Author of “The Old Editor Says” and “Bad Advice.” Kentuckian transplanted to Baltimore.
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Weekend at Donny’s. It’s everything Trump and the media said the Biden presidency was

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The Baltimore Banner just won a Pulitzer Prize.

submitted 2 days ago • 9 comments

This is really good… …and of course men *are* in “crisis” and have been since the 19th century, that “crisis” being the declining relative economic value of upper body strength and declining child mortality, making it less economically valuable for women to make childbirth the work of their lives.

submitted 4 days ago • 7 comments

Made juleps tonight. Would have yesterday but something told me that Journalism would lose the Derby, and I didn’t have the heart.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Far from home.

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A salutary reminder from legendary editor Robert Gottlieb: "Though you cannot legislate talent into yourself, you can legislate efficiency."

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Yes, a once-great newspaper.

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An herb-infused Old Fashioned for brunch at Maggie’s Farm.

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

A light spring supper.

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The Baltimore Sun just called to offer me a deal on an online subscription. I would sooner undergo another bout of Covid.

submitted 12 days ago • 3 comments

Hand over the manuscript. I have a Dixon Ticonderoga and I'm not afraid to use it.

submitted 14 days ago • 2 comments

The most important thing you hold in memory.

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I walked down to the creek today after a week with Covid, and the maple trees are definite about the advancement of spring and little insects are skittering across the surface of the water. We go on.

submitted 17 days ago • 9 comments

If Jesus had focused more on kitchen table issues and less on unpopular outcasts like lepers and prostitutes, he might have won more support from white working-class Judeans.

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Perhaps David Hogg might read up on Franklin Roosevelt's attempt in 1938 to purge conservative Southern Democrats from the Democratic Party, which backfired and wound up with Republican gains in Congress.

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Explain to me: The midterm elections in 2026 will determine control of the narrowly divided House, and perhaps the fate of the Republic, and that pretentious git David Hogg wants to spend $10 million to primary DEMOCRATS?

submitted 20 days ago • 5 comments

Super proud of the @thebaltimorebanner.com newsroom for winning an IRE award for our Key Bridge collapse coverage. At the time, we didn't even have a live blog, but we did have great journalists who know this community and what the bridge meant to it.

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

I am spending the morning in the grumbling process.

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Do we have standards? Yes, we have standards.

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Told you

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

The Baltimore Banner is looking to hire an experienced copy editor.

submitted 28 days ago • 4 comments

The sun finally came out, so it seemed like a good idea to sit and watch it go down.

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The redbud that I asked the city to plant in front of the house in 2008 is about to put on a show.

submitted 36 days ago • 2 comments

How do you see an editor?

submitted 37 days ago • 2 comments

Prosecco on the porch. We’re back!

submitted 38 days ago • 2 comments

The ducks are back in the creek at the bottom of the hill.

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Do you fit this year's fashions? johnemcintyre.blogspot.com/2025/03/when...

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What Henry Thoreau said that every editor and stylebook editor should have in embroidery above the desk: “Any fool can make a rule and every fool will mind it.”

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Loved I not grammar more.

submitted 48 days ago • 2 comments

Kathleen is cooking. Taking down the smoke alarms.

submitted 50 days ago • 5 comments

Latest unpopular opinion: Crushes are boozed-up sweet children’s drinks for adults who do not like the taste of alcohol.

submitted 55 days ago • 1 comment

May I have a word about your writing?

submitted 56 days ago • 1 comment

Do you know how shockingly refreshing that would be?? "Actually we created the National Weather Service to save lives. The weather app on your phone uses the data collected by NWS and NOAA. History proves that was a smart investment every hurricane season, every tornado, every [etc etc]"

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The Baltimore Banner examines The Baltimore Sun under a year of David Smith's ownership. www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/lo...

submitted 61 days ago • 1 comment

When David Axelrod and James Carville come on the air, I find it's best to turn off the television or switch to the Cartoon Channel, where the characters are drawn more cleverly.

submitted 62 days ago • 0 comments

On National Grammar Day, a new Grammar Noir episode. johnemcintyre.blogspot.com/2025/03/all-...

submitted 64 days ago • 1 comment

At the behest of someone I live with, looked in on the Oscars. Within three minutes it was insufferably tedious.

submitted 66 days ago • 1 comment

i'm stealing this from someone on twitter but the difference in body language here is due to the fact that both of these men are condemned to eternal damnation in the deepest circle of Hell but only Rubio realizes it

submitted 68 days ago • 654 comments

TOMORROW- Friday, February 28th is BLACKOUT FRIDAY! If you believe we are in danger of losing our Democracy forever, FIGHT BACK! Let's make our voices heard in numbers too big to ignore. JOIN US if you've had it with Comrade Krasnov. 🤬 🇷🇺 #24HourEconomicBlackout

submitted 69 days ago • 2281 comments