Jack Shafer
@jackshafer
I am easily found. [email protected]
"The first duty of the press is to obtain the earliest and most correct intelligence of the events of the time, and instantly...
"Let every advertisement appear as an advertisement; no sailing under false colors." --Charles A. Dana bit.ly/10PkXS2
Back in 1987, I interviewed #OzzyOsbourne for the heavy metal mag 'Metallix: It'll Rock You To Shreds!' while he was promoting Randy Rhoads Tribute. I was stunned by what a nice and affable person he was and he talked about how much he loved @PaulMcCartney and the Beatles, among…
Ozzy Osbourne meeting his lifelong idol, Paul McCartney in 2001.
“As someone who was an early critic of the Russiagate narrative, I can report that Gabbard did not get the goods.” - @EliLake
Everybody knows Paranoid but do yourself a favor — give Sabotage, the least appreciated great Black Sabbath album a listen in honor of Ozzy.
My upcoming book, "The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald," just got a great review from @KirkusReviews, an 88-year old institution that's hard to impress. A starred review (top 10%). kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/j…
Sixteen years on: @JackShafer's memorably contrarian essay, "Why I didn't trust Walter Cronkite." slate.com/news-and-polit… @slate @CBSNews #CronkiteMoment
He returned from his trip on the 14th of June. Went to camp David on the 20th and the debate was on the 27th. How much Ambien did they give him?
Hunter Biden suggest former President Biden’s disastrous debate performance was due to Ambien “I’ll tell you what, I know exactly what happened in that debate. He flew around the world basically … He’s 81 years old. He’s tired as shit. They give him Ambien to be able to sleep.…
Why Colbert got canceled @NateSilver538 natesilver.net/p/why-colbert-…
How to resist the Epstein temptation semafor.com/article/07/20/…
An entire WSJ article about why US soda-makers don't use cane sugar (spoiler: we don't "make enough" lol) and not a single mention of highly-restrictive US sugar quotas that keep prices here WAY above global levels? Cmon, man. wsj.com/business/the-p…
"Honolulu Worker Paid Not To Work For Nearly Five Years" -- Honolulu Civil Beat civilbeat.org/2025/07/honolu…
"A Colorado lawmaker charged gas to his campaign. Then he asked taxpayers to reimburse his mileage." -- The Colorado Sun coloradosun.com/2025/07/14/rya…
Have this giant, noxious weed in your yard? How to get rid of it — without burning yourself thehill.com/homenews/nexst…
Watching an MLB game with @RyanCohen24 is like defending your Ph.D. in baseball studies.
"How Do I Hate NPR? Let Me Count the Ways" --Glenn GarvIn, Washington City Paper, 1993 digdc.dclibrary.org/do/3256df4b-6d…
“It was so fresh it was like slicing a spring tomato.” --Felice Bryant on the Everly Brothers’ singing Hearing Double wallstreetjournal-ny.newsmemory.com/?publink=00131…
"Spoken language is inevitably looser than written language, and when it ends up in print, even after the removal of tangles and falterings, will still, because it is in print, look like a (badly) written voice." jewishreviewofbooks.com/american-jewry…
