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Fighting homophobia by tracking down its source

2013-05-17 09:44:00

As a journalist, I'm a big believer in free speech, but also in the idea that bigotry and wrongdoing are fair game for scrutiny. Regardless of your political leanings, it's fair to say that publicly ridiculing others in a confrontational and...

How to carve a swan from a watermelon (and other institutional analogies)

2013-05-13 04:44:00

Tiger Woods, Microsoft and the Tea Party are all reasserting themselves. Welcome to your post-weekend trends report for May 13, 2013. Woods won his 78th PGA event Sunday in Ponte Vedra Beach, showing further recovery from a series of injuries and marital...

CNN, MSNBC, Fox show true colors in choice of stories this week

2013-05-13 08:27:00

Last week was a great one for cable news watching. Not because any one channel did such outstanding work, but rather because several stories clamored simultaneously for the camera’s attention. The choices that a channel makes in such situations are...

'American Idol,' can Twitter popularity predict the winner?

2013-05-14 14:14:00

Angie Miller and her steely-eyed focus transmitted into the homes of 10-plus million American Idol viewers won her 50,000 followers in the Twitterverse the week of the show's Top 10 reveal -- nearly 18,000 more social media fans than her next highest...

Sanford and Hicks go to Congress, The CIA goes to Hollywood and CNN stays put

2013-05-08 07:10:00

Former South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford has been elected to the House (or at least that's where we hear he's going). Welcome to your trends report for Monday, May 8, 2013. Sanford will head to Capitol Hill after facing off against Elizabeth...

Niall Ferguson's blooper

2013-05-09 00:00:00

At an investment conference last week, Harvard historian Niall Ferguson created a huge mess for himself. He glibly speculated that maybe because economist John Maynard Keynes was a childless, "effete" homosexual, he embraced a doctrine that favored...

The Internet celebrates LeBron, Europe, your mom

2013-05-10 07:01:00

It's Europe Day! (Yeah, we didn't know that either.) Welcome to your trends report for Friday, May 10. You're not alone if you were in the dark about the EU's annual holiday: Apparently, very few Europeans know that it exists. Nonetheless, between that,...

Baltimore Sun Media Group mobile news products

2013-05-02 00:00:00

[ SITES ] Sun smartphone and tablet site (smartphones and tablets) Touch.baltimoresun.com, specially designed to be interacted with on touch screens, automatically adjusts its presentation according to your device. Readers visiting baltimoresun.com on...

High-flying moves and a killer waltz for Jacoby Jones on 'Dancing with the Stars'

2013-05-06 19:15:00

Tonight on “Dancing with the Stars,” each couple did two full dances. As the couples were introduced, Jacoby Jones was wearing a cowboy hat. We didn’t find out why until his first routine, which turned out to be a Viennese waltz to...

Tim Tebow will now have time to celebrate International Dance Day

2013-04-29 07:12:00

Feliz D�a Internacional de la Danza! Welcome to your post-weekend trends report for April 29, 2013. As the international Twitter scene lights up with colorful pictures of people dancing all over the world, the East Coast is more focused on the release...

Would Rutgers transfer Eli Carter fit in with Maryland?

2013-04-28 13:53:00

There’s been a lot of buzz on�Twitter the past few days about where Eli Carter would land after asking for his release from Rutgers. The 6-2 guard led the Scarlet Knights in scoring as a freshman (13.8) and again as a sophomore (14.9) before his...

World watches weapons in Israel, Syria; Americans prefer to watch them on the big screen

2013-05-06 04:33:00

Israel and Syria continue to fight, Robert Downey Jr. continues to� pretend to fight, and in sunny, pastoral northern Pennsylvania, a former judge is still getting international attention a week after his sentencing over what amounts to a human-...

Diddy's rather confusing Twitter announcement that he'll be appearing as a series regular on the wildly popular British aristocracy drama "Downton Abbey" has manifested itself as a mediocre Funny or Die video. And aren't we all a little relieved? We're guessing the Dowager Countess is.

2013-05-17 13:56:00

One of the defining moments in the history of breast cancer occurred in 1974 when the first lady, Betty Ford, spoke openly about her mastectomy, lifting a veil of secrecy from the disease and ushering in a new era of breast cancer awareness.

2013-05-15 00:00:00

Trending on: National Twitter, Google Trends, Baltimore Twitter, Google Plus Actress Angelina Jolie announced in a New York Times op-ed article on Tuesday that she underwent a preventive double mastectomy after learning she carries a mutation of the BRCA1 gene, which sharply increases her risk

2013-05-14 00:00:00