Kevin Hoover’s police log

A & L Daily has discovered Kevin Hoover’s Police Log from the Arcata Eye, the one-man newspaper read by all the hippies in Humboldt County. It’s choice stuff, highly redemptive of journalists. Check it out: Arcata Eye Newspaper : Police log index Stoned souls harvested by the Grim Ranger Opposable thumb & forefinger filch a … Continue reading “Kevin Hoover’s police log”

A & L Daily has discovered Kevin Hoover’s Police Log from the Arcata Eye, the one-man newspaper read by all the hippies in Humboldt County. It’s choice stuff, highly redemptive of journalists. Check it out: Arcata Eye Newspaper : Police log index

Stoned souls harvested by the Grim Ranger
Opposable thumb & forefinger filch a flank
D.A. to review kitty litter bucket battle
Tensions explode in stench-retention chamber
Me and you and a drug named Boo

If you’re all really good, I’ll post a picture of the infamous Pink House.

California Teachers’ Association

(CTA) is the name of the golden state’s teachers’ union, which wasn’t spelled out in today’s entry on O’Connell and Kuehl (Future dim for California schools.) Only a few hours after posting that, someone with the email address “[email protected]” dropped a snarky comment about it. His tone resonates with the remarks of the UCLA teacher … Continue reading “California Teachers’ Association”

(CTA) is the name of the golden state’s teachers’ union, which wasn’t spelled out in today’s entry on O’Connell and Kuehl (Future dim for California schools.) Only a few hours after posting that, someone with the email address “[email protected]” dropped a snarky comment about it. His tone resonates with the remarks of the UCLA teacher trainer on Fox News to the effect that anyone who didn’t like the gay life program should “check out – of the world.” I don’t see the CTA’s critics leaving the state, or the planet, en masse, folks, so you’d best learn to deal with us, in all of our glorious diversity.

Good article on the WiFi revolution

linked by the 802.11b blog comparing WiFi to the cell data services it’s killing: If wireless carriers are slow-moving bureaucratic governments of the wireless world, then Wi-Fi technology is its guerrilla movement. The technology is relatively cheap, anyone can install it and, at 11 megabits a second, it’s fast. Whole article at: The Seattle Times: … Continue reading “Good article on the WiFi revolution”

linked by the 802.11b blog comparing WiFi to the cell data services it’s killing:

If wireless carriers are slow-moving bureaucratic governments of the wireless world, then Wi-Fi technology is its guerrilla movement. The technology is relatively cheap, anyone can install it and, at 11 megabits a second, it’s fast.

Whole article at: The Seattle Times: Wireless where you want: Wi-Fi is the guerrilla revolution of wireless computing

Bloggers and Journalists

is the subject of this entry at Libertarian Samizdata From this little article lifted in its entireity from today’s JPMorgan Chase Tech Industry Daily, it would appear that the corporate world is starting to take notice. Will bloggers compete with journalists? I certainly hope so. The trouble with public education, in a nutshell, is that … Continue reading “Bloggers and Journalists”

is the subject of this entry at Libertarian Samizdata

From this little article lifted in its entireity from today’s JPMorgan Chase Tech Industry Daily, it would appear that the corporate world is starting to take notice.

Will bloggers compete with journalists?

I certainly hope so. The trouble with public education, in a nutshell, is that it’s practiced by education majors, not the brightest lights on the tree. Similarly, the trouble with journalism is that it’s practiced by people scarcely a notch up from education majors, who don’t really understand most of what they write about. You clearly get better quality analysis from people like Andrew Hofer, Megan McArdle, and VodkaPundit on business and economics than you find in the papers, which is why their blogs are so hot.
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White on black websites are hard to read

and it’s shame that so many sites with good content are going that way. I could go into a fine rant on the nature of the eyeball and the design goals of video monitors, but it mainly comes down to common sense. Sullivan has given his readers the option of choosing a color scheme, but … Continue reading “White on black websites are hard to read”

and it’s shame that so many sites with good content are going that way. I could go into a fine rant on the nature of the eyeball and the design goals of video monitors, but it mainly comes down to common sense. Sullivan has given his readers the option of choosing a color scheme, but most who use quirky design don’t. Please, folks, black on white. The eye needs contrast and definition or the brain can’t digest your thoughts.

Another great web site

on politics is Spinsanity – Countering rhetoric with reason. These guys, Ben Fritz and Brendan Nyhan, take on the left and the right with equal relish whenever and wherever they see defective reasoning or distortions of fact. They’re pretty busy. Here’s a bit about Enron: In the ongoing rhetorical war over Enron, both sides seem … Continue reading “Another great web site”

on politics is Spinsanity – Countering rhetoric with reason. These guys, Ben Fritz and Brendan Nyhan, take on the left and the right with equal relish whenever and wherever they see defective reasoning or distortions of fact. They’re pretty busy. Here’s a bit about Enron:

In the ongoing rhetorical war over Enron, both sides seem to be trying to establish false tropes and hoping they’ll work their way into the mainstream. Senator Ernest “Fritz” Hollings (D-SC) did it last week when he falsely alleged that Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill and Office of Management and Budget Director Mitch Daniels had been on the company’s payroll. And now two conservatives are falsely stating that former Enron CEO Ken Lay was an overnight guest in the Clinton White House.

They’ll e-mail updates to you if you like.

Discovering Kathleen Parker

— Fox News’ celebrity blogger Will Vehrs has discovered one of my favorite columnists: I think Kathleen Parker is one of the best columnists out there who isn’t syndicated to the WP or NYT. She’s got a nice web site and answered a long-ago email I sent her quickly and very graciously. You can also … Continue reading “Discovering Kathleen Parker”

— Fox News’ celebrity blogger Will Vehrs has discovered one of my favorite columnists:

I think Kathleen Parker is one of the best columnists out there who isn’t syndicated to the WP or NYT. She’s got a nice web site and answered a long-ago email I sent her quickly and very graciously.

You can also read her on Jewish World Review. Parker is one of the sensible voices in the divorce wars, where her experience as a girl raised by her father guides in in the right direction. I first learned about her when she sent me an e-mail about a piece I’d forwarded to some e-mail lists about a study in England showing the women most successful in politics and business had strong relationships with their fathers. Highly recommended.

Speaking of Fox News, they feature Los Angeleno Ken Layne today, doing Dave Barry impressions. Check it out.

Future dim for California schools

— I heard a discussion between the three leading candidates for California School Superintendent on the radio yesterday, and quickly reached the conclusion that things aren’t going to get better any time soon in this state. The leading candidate is state senator Jack O’Connell, and his chief rival is my assemblymember, Lynne Leach. Leach has … Continue reading “Future dim for California schools”

— I heard a discussion between the three leading candidates for California School Superintendent on the radio yesterday, and quickly reached the conclusion that things aren’t going to get better any time soon in this state. The leading candidate is state senator Jack O’Connell, and his chief rival is my assemblymember, Lynne Leach. Leach has her heart (and her head) in the right place, but she doesn’t have a snowball’s chance of winning owing to the fact that she’s a Reep in a one-party Dem state. O’Connell has $2M in union money on his side, and legions ready to walk precincts, drive on election day, and work phone banks. The reason that we need to keep the money in politics, by the way, is to keep the scales balanced between the parties here.
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Fox News clarification

— Will Vehrs says Fox News is gonna put a new blog on their site every day of the week, with his coming back next Saturday as a regular feature. The editor’s note makes sense now. It’s good to see blogs making more penetration into the mainstream media. The first one to emerge was Jack … Continue reading “Fox News clarification”

— Will Vehrs says Fox News is gonna put a new blog on their site every day of the week, with his coming back next Saturday as a regular feature. The editor’s note makes sense now. It’s good to see blogs making more penetration into the mainstream media. The first one to emerge was Jack Kavanaugh’s Rough & Tumble, the Daily Driveby on California politics, featured on CBS’ 60 Minutes a couple of years ago. Kavanaugh’s content is so rich that his site is self-supporting now. He also gets calls from Washington if the content isn’t updated by 7AM Pacific Time, so there’s a downside to every upside.