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Niraj Chokshi: Almost one fourth of people under 25 now watch most of their TV online. The authors of a new survey estimate that 800,000 U.S. households got rid of their cable subscriptions last year, and expect the number to double by the end of 2011. The loss is still small, given the 101 million…

So says woman farmer Sharon Astyk, writing in In Character. Excerpt: I was not raised on a farm. My parents or grandparents were NOT farmers. My husband comes NOT from farming people but from an apartment in New Jersey. Both of us are overeducated people who trained for firmly non-agrarian careers: my husband teaches astrophysics…

Heather Mac Donald, writing in City Journal, criticizes a New York City program to help the poor by giving them cash rewards for constructive behavior, saying it’s built on a misunderstanding of why inner-city Americans (versus, say, Mexicans) are poor. Excerpt: Of course, it’s ludicrous to suppose that what keeps America’s inner-city residents poor across…

Somebody secretly records a drunken Jerry Jones, the Dallas Cowboys owner, talking trash about Bill Parcells and others in a bar, and WFAA, the ABC affiliate in Dallas, runs it as a story. This royally cheesed off WFAA’s veteran sports anchor Dale Hansen, who thought it a serious breach of journalistic ethics. Hansen went on…
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