Dog Story #1--newspaper using slanted information  

The Toledo Blade has labeled a dog story a controversy, and has retold it 12 times in 12 days as of this writing, each time only giving one point of view. 

Dog Story #2--call to action based on misinformation 

A woman entered a courthouse to find out when the “dog case” was being held so she could demonstrate against it.  The clerk said they didn't have a dog case.  The woman replied that someone on Facebook told her about it and ask that she demonstrate.  The clerk again stated they had no dog case.  After the woman left, the clerk remarked that they did have a "cat case."

DogStory #3--asking the wrong question

In the Pink Panther Strikes Again, Peter Sellers, as Inspector Clouseau, is standing at the front desk of a hotel and sees a dog lying by the front door.  In an exaggerated French accent, he asks the clerk, "Does your dog bite?"  The man answers, "No."  Walking toward the door, Clouseau bends down to pet the dog; it growls and then bites him.  Aghast, he exclaims, "I thought that you said your dog does not bite!"  The man responds, "Oui, monsieur, but that is not my dog."

Obviously, Inspector Clouseau did not ask the right question.  Cheri A. Toledo  http://www.isetl.org/ijtlhe/pdf/ijtlhe85.pdf  See Peter Sellers as Clouseau, "Does your dog bite"? in 1:26 video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ui442IDw16o

The word ‘meanwhile’ is an adverb.  It means ‘at the same time’.  It is usually used at the beginning of the sentence and has a comma after it.  The word ‘meantime’ is a noun.  It is actually the noun of the adverb ‘meanwhile’.  It is usually used in a phrase like ‘in the meantime’ or ‘for the meantime’.  The word ‘while’ is very similar to ‘meanwhile’ but it is usually a conjunction.  http://www.englishspark.com/difference-between-meanwhile-meantime/

Tun Tavern was a tavern and brewery in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, which served as a founding or early meeting place for a number of notable groups.  It is traditionally regarded as the site where what would become the United States Marine Corps held its first recruitment drive during the American Revolution.  It is also regarded as one of the "birthplaces of Masonic teachings in America."   The tavern was erected in 1686 at the intersection of King (later called Water) Street and Tun Alley by settler Joshua Carpenter.  Tun Tavern was named for the Old English word "tun", meaning a barrel or keg of beer.  In the 1740s, a restaurant, "Peggy Mullan's Red Hot Beef Steak Club", was added to the tavern.  Tun Tavern burned down in 1781, near the end of the American Revolution.  Its location is occupied by Interstate 95, where it passes along Penn's Landing.  Tun Alley once existed between Walnut and Chestnut Streets east of Front Street.  A commemorative marker on the east side of Front Street indicates the site, across from Sansom Walk.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tun_Tavern

Steven Berlin Johnson (born June 6, 1968) is an American popular science author and media theorist.  Johnson grew up in Washington, D.C., where he attended St. Albans School.  He completed his undergraduate degree at Brown University, where he studied semiotics, a part of the school's modern culture and media department.  He also has a graduate degree from Columbia University in English literature.  Johnson is the author of eight books on the intersection of science, technology, and personal experience.  He has co-created three influential web sites:  the pioneering online magazine FEED, the Webby Award-winning community site, Plastic.com, and most recently the hyperlocal media site outside.in.  A contributing editor to Wired, he writes regularly for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, and many other periodicals. Johnson also serves on the advisory boards of a number of Internet-related companies, including Medium, Atavist, Meetup.com, Betaworks, and Patch.com.  See links to Johnson's official website, TED talks and interviews at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Johnson_(author)  Johnson wrote up a few thoughts about the relationship between the book How We Got to Now and the show at a new site, How We Get To Next.  http://www.howwegettonext.com/

A chapbook is "a small book or pamphlet containing poems, ballads, stories, or religious tracts."  The term is still used today to refer to short, inexpensive booklets.  Chapbooks were small, cheaply produced books, most often octavo or duodecimo printings of twenty-four pages, sold without a cover.  Chapbooks were so called because they were sold by peddlers known as chapmen.  Chap comes from the Old English for trade, so a chapman was literally a dealer who sold books.  Chapmen would carry boxes containing the conveniently sized editions, either in town on street corners, or traveling through the countryside.  They typically sold their wares for twopence or threepence, and stocked a large variety of titles.  Chapmen traveled through England as early as the 1570s.  Chapbooks followed broadsides as early print products for people of lesser means and learning than the wealthy.  Broadsides represented print for the semi-literate:  two of the main forms were ballads and pictures, neither of which depended heavily on reading.  People who heard the songs might repeat them in alehouses or inns, relying on memory.  In this way the songs could change into new songs which would later be transcribed, or devolve into a meaningless jumble of words.  Broadsides containing large woodcuts were also popular.  Even those who could not read at all could make use of these broadsides by hanging them on the wall.  The one line or so of text could be remembered or inferred from the picture.  At this early stage of print, text was not static.  Works moved back and forth between oral and print forms.  The story Guy of Warwick  originated in the Middle Ages, when it was sung as a heroic ballad.  Sometime between 1200 and 1400 it was written as a manuscript.  The story was printed in the first decades of the 1500s for a gentry audience.  In the late 1500s, the story was abridged into a broadside ballad, and was once again heard in song form.  In the late 1600s, it was turned back into book form in twenty-four page chapbooks, and conditions at that point were allowing more people access to these inexpensive books. 

http://web.mit.edu/21h.418/www/nhausman/chap1.html  See also all versions of Guy of Warwick at http://middleenglishromance.org.uk/mer/26

READER FEEDBACK to story on Fulton Center, a new $1.4 billion transit hub giving New York riders an easier way to connect between eleven subway lines and a piece of art unto itself.  Nearly 1,000 reflective panels gives a dramatic look up into the sky.   

Even I didn’t know the Fulton Center was revealed this week!  I used to work right there (222 Broadway, corner of Fulton & Broadway).  That’s where I was on 9/11, and things must look very different with the new transportation center.  Before it was a veritable rabbit warren underground, with many subway lines all tangled in proximity.

Snowmageddon, Snowpocalypse and Snowzilla are portmanteaus of the word "snow" with either "Armageddon", "Apocalypse" and "Godzilla" respectively.  Snowmageddon and Snowpocalypse seem to have first been published in the popular press in Canada during January 2009, and was also used in January 2010 by The Guardian reporter Charlie Brooker on January 16, 2010 in order to describe heavy snowfall across the United Kingdom during the preceding days.  The Washington Post ran an online poll asking for reader feedback prior to the First North American blizzard of 2010 on February 4, 2010, and several blogs, including the Washington Post '​s own blog, followed that up by using either "Snowmageddon" and or "Snowpocalypse" before, during, and after the storm hit.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowmageddon  A Google search for snowmageddon on November 21, 2014 produced 512,000 results.

http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com  Issue 1220  November 21, 2014  On this date in 1694, François-Marie Arouet, known as Voltaire, was born in Paris.  His work included plays, poems, novels, essays, and historical and scientific works.  On this date in 1835, Hetty Green, American businesswoman and financier was born in New Bedford, Massachussets.  Her nickname was "The Witch of Wall Street."