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April 18, 2023

Couple’s choreographed suicide by guillotine ends with heads rolling into fire altar

A couple in India — more like Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette than Romeo and Juliet — committed suicide using something like a guillotine to decapitate themselves, and they added the element of fire.

April 17, 2023

How did this happen? SUV crashes through home’s roof in California

Somebody crashed one into a part of a house that rarely comes into contact with anything on wheels: its roof.

September 6, 2022

Clematis St. shooting suspect arrested 6 times for felonies in Palm Beach Co., 3 this year

The suspect arrested under a car for Monday morning’s shooting on Clematis Street is no stranger to the law.

July 7, 2022

‘You need to be a good girl’: Woman describes 15 hours of hostage horror

The case of a 20-year-old man shot in the head by a Florida sergeant actually started with a missing person’s call from the victim’s mother.

December 5, 2020

Dan Rather: Raising a ruckus in a good way from Texas to TV, and now the Twitterverse

You may not have heard much about Dan Rather lately. I don’t remember seeing him on TV except as a guest on NBC News,…

November 5, 2020

Hey Trump! Call it quits or history will judge you even more harshly

Two days have passed since the election for President of the United States, about a third of the 100 Senators and all 435 members…

October 23, 2020

When to talk and when to not

The idea for this blog post came today when I noticed an article called “Where cancel culture stops,” by Yisroel Besser in Mishpacha magazine, meant for Orthodox Jews. (I apologize…

May 1, 2020

Is Facebook facing the fact its Community Standards struck out with me 3 times in one night?

If you’re a longtime reader, then you’ve probably seen the phase I went through, ending articles with this phrase: If you appreciate what you…

February 9, 2020

Your local reporter may be phoning it in

Have you seen Katie from Kansas on your local CBS TV station’s website? You probably shouldn’t. This post started when I was looking for…

December 23, 2019

The bad and the good at work (media edition)

We all have good days and bad days, but both of these quotes refer to the bigger picture at different times in different people’s…

October 18, 2019

Haven’t been in touch for a while. This is partly the reason.

To those of you eager to read more blog posts here (this is blog #150!), and news on ThePhillyFiles.com, I’m temporarily sorry. No, I…

August 15, 2019

ThePhillyFiles’ six-week milestone!

I sent the following to subscribers of ThePhillyFiles on Mailchimp: It’s hard for me to believe but today marks *six weeks* since the kickoff…

July 8, 2019

Video: First fiery justice, then the law

A man the BBC calls a “far-right extremist” — who set fire to a synagogue, a year ago — first went down in flames…

June 13, 2019

Adding my own few points to Nexstar’s ‘Digital First’ strategy

The phrase “Digital First” is nothing new. Managers in TV station news departments have been saying it for years, but they really hadn’t practiced…

May 3, 2019

Lenny’s update, and the writing and posting you may have missed

You may have actually looked at the homepage of this blog, CohenConnect.com, and thought I hadn’t been writing. It may have looked that way,…

This is it! How many of you I’m in contact with regularly have heard me say I want more “me time”Âť to put together…

March 16, 2019

Control of the media after the mosque attacks in New Zealand

THANK YOU to the two new followers from over the past week, bringing the total up to 116. I hope you like what you…

February 21, 2019

Pre-election politics in Israel, and where I’ve been

Tomorrow will be a month since my last actual blog post. I’ve been very busy working and also spent a little time in Florida…

In January, I started freelancing for the weekly newspaper Philadelphia Gay News, or PGN as it’s known around here. Yes, regular readers know I…

January 7, 2019

Odds, ends and new beginnings

It’s always good to be remembered, and hopefully being your last new year’s message of the year will keep some of my thoughts on…

January 2, 2019

Banned from Facebook pages twice in 2 days!

Sometimes, interesting things happen when you read friends’ Facebook pages. I’m not talking about going to look on purpose, which I’ve done before. I’m…

December 12, 2018

Exposing hate, close to home (as if acceptable anywhere)

My interest started when I was looking at my Facebook feed over the weekend and saw this post from a former coworker. Obviously, we’re…

December 6, 2018

Blogging better in 2019 after hitting 20,000 views in 2018

THANK YOU! I don’t know what else to say. There’s nothing special about hitting 20,000 blog page views except that it’s a big round…

November 21, 2018

The end of an era, and beginning of this one (Part A of this one)

It was 20 years ago tonight. Not exactly. It was actually four days off, on Nov. 25, but what really matters is it was…

November 4, 2018

Difficult week, from anger to sadness, as election approaches

I don’t remember a seven-day period like the time since last Saturday. That’s when I woke up, turned on the TV, and saw what…

October 28, 2018

Not a good day for political thoughts, the USA as a whole

I’ve known I had another blog post “due” before the election, if you know how I think, but too much on my mind and…

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