Stuff Jamie has written “Plummer is right.” People magazine February 19, 1996

Latest addition: Chronicling Xenu & Me!

Look at this resume, then hire me.

Commendations:
1997-98 Cavalier Daily Outstanding Writer.
1997 Felix Morley Journalism Competition: runner-up.

The list:

• Fine Wines and Wine Fines. From the November 1997 issue of Reason.
• 1997 Burton Grey Memorial Intern Enjoys Summer in L.A. This is a short account of my summer working for Reason, written up for the Reason Report.
• I’ve got three short Citings in the October issue of Reason, variously titled Driving Adolescents Crazy, Edifice Wreck, and Don’t Leave Home. I also cowrote one, Rolling Off the Rolls, in the November issue.
• Tobacco Deal a Sweet One for Net Censors. Investor’s Business Daily, August 22, 1997.
• TV ratings. Consumer’s Research magazine March 1997.
• Guess who’s not coming to dinner?. Detroit News December 1, 1996. About the CSPI, the food police. Coauthored with Sarah Durkin. This is based on an earlier article for Consumer Alert’s newletter. After another CSPI expose’ appeared in the New Republic, Michael Jacobson, chief of the Food Police, alleged I was “part of a larger industry-backed smear campaign to undermine CSPI’s credibility.” You learn something new about yourself everyday, I suppose.
• The networks, children’s TV and the spectrum. Washington Times August 27, 1996.
• Decent Information? Consumers’ Research magazine August 1996.
• Consumer Alert confronts ‘Food police’ on Fat Substitute. Consumer Coments newsletter, Summer 1996.
• Who are the ‘Food Police’? ibid.
• Life is short. Play Hardly. My first freelance story, written for U. Magazine. About low-impact sports.
• Internet doesn’t need government meddling. As it appeared in the Buffalo News on July 20, 1995.
• When i was at The University of Virginia, I had a weekly column in The Cavalier Daily, an independent student newspaper. A partial archive appears below. More or less complete archives for 1995, 1996, and 1997 1998 columns are on another page. The CD didn’t get a website until January 1995, so my work before then is not there. A few my old favorites are listed on this page for easy reference.Titles by various editors.
  

  Selected Columns

  • Superman v. Jefferson: a dialogue. A postscript for the graduation issue. May 18, 1998
  • Dishing up plateful of enemies. I still haven’t decided if this foray into writing about my own life was a good idea or not. March 5, 1998..
  • ‘Enlightened’ Council, dim idea. Student government. Why? February 26, 1998..
  • NASA launches politicos into final frontier. January 23, 1998..
  • Curbing technology thwarts possible advances. This was written amidst the national debate re: “cloning ethics.” January 15, 1998..
  • Candid look at Waco in Festival film. October 29, 1997.
  • StudCo overbudgets, yet urges CIOS to spend more… Student self-government at work. October 1, 1997.
  • Fielding anonymous complaintsDean of Students handles frozen yogurt, Rush issues. Someone from the Chronicle of Higher Education called the paper looking for copies of these letters. Just goes to prove my theory that ivory towers cause much more severe brain damage than lead paint. September 24, 1997.
  • Remembering Tartikoff’s legacy. Brandon Tartikoff was one of my heroes as a child. September 5, 1997.
  • New smoking pact detrimental to liberty. July 21, 1997.
  • Labor’s love-fest. This column apparently created a little stir. Check it out. February 26, 1997.
  • The University in Tomorrowland Some hair-brained schemes regarding the University’s future have been going around recently. Here’s my take. December 5, 1996.
  • And the beat goes on… An election night dispatch from Dole headquarters. (I got a media pass and everything). November 7, 1996.
  • Academic freedom? How the University worked against political and academic freedom, and at the same time lost some Nobel prize winners. October 16, 1996.
  • Misguided priorities: Questionable quest for equity ignores just rewards, future consequences. About the short-sighted, empty-headed proposal to scrap Echols Scholars’ priority registration. September 18, 1996.
  • The Windbag City. Thoughts on the opening day of the Democratic convention.August 28, 1996.
  • NASA lost in space. Government doesn’t work in space, either. August 26, 1996.
  • Alienation drives British cows to udder madness. What are all those British cows so “Mad” about, anyway? – this instant classic is already being used as a text in AP courses taught at our nation’s finest high schools. March 27, 1996.
  • Right to bear arms gives public security. Fibber McGee, Sarah Brady, and me. April 21, 1995.
  • Legislation logs on to the Internet. How the Exon rule would effect online communications at the University and elsewhere. March 6, 1995.
  • Southern eyes entranced by snowfall. My first real experience with snow. February 3, 1995.

  Biennial TV reviews

  • Networks produce tepid television fare The 1997 fall TV round-up was a little late this year…
  • Networks fall flat with spring TV schedules: Hagman’s ‘Orleans,’ Mazer’s ‘Temporarily Yours’ provide rare sparks in weak freshman class Actually, I said those two were okay, but the only really good new show was “King of the Hill.” Editors. What’re ya gonna do?
  • Networks adjust dial after weak year New 1996 fall shows roundup.
  • Networks spruce up schedules. 1996 midseason roundup.
  • Fall television season tunes in old formulas. Highlights and the many lowlights of the fall 1995 television season.
  • Good, bad shows dot prime time. A review of midseason replacement shows for 1995. I stupidly wrote a piece twice as long as necessary, and some facts got garbled when it was cut.
• Dejanews USENET author profiles for my ever-changing addresses
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• I’m a fan of this little show called Mystery Science Theater 3000. It’s this guy and two robots watching and poking fun at really bad movies. I spend a lot of time discussing it 해외배팅사이트 on the Internet. Other people on the ‘net discuss shows they like. Like, “Star Trek” for instance. Some even write stories about their favorite Star Trek characters. Most of them are quite… pathetic. Why am I telling you all this? Because I wrote up this “MSTing” giving the MST3k treatment to one of said stories. It’s called “A New Generation” and it’s about… well, it’s really bad. I had fun, though.
  

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