Tag Archives: Robert Siegel

I Survived the Great Cincinnati CicadaPalooza of 1970

To borrow a phrase from former President Barack Obama, the news media is currently getting all wee-weed up about the coming cicada apocalypse this spring. Here’s how Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs defined the term to NPR’s Robert Siegel at the … Continue reading

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Is It The God Particle, Or The Goddamn Particle?

The media rumpus over the discovery of the elusive Higgs boson subatomic particle has now reached critical mass (yuk yuk), but one question that apparently hasn’t been settled is how it was dubbed “the God particle.” From yesterday’s Wall Street … Continue reading

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