A report released Friday on "abuse" of the Koran at Guantanamo Bay reveals that Muslim prisoners have abused the "holy" book three times more often than the infidel guards. Color me unimpressed with all of the brouhaha over the Cuban "gulag" and the outrage over the treatment of the Muslim "holy" book. Compare the treatment […]
A Florida high school principal finds a witty graduation address on the Internet, and delivers it as her own -- that gets journalists fired and sets a bad example for students. In an interview on Thursday, (Principal Susan) Duval said she had come across the speech while doing research on the Internet but did not […]
I had a pretty brief conversation the other day with a couple of co-workers who are to the left of me politically (who isn't?) regarding the public financing of art. I don't remember exactly what prompted the conversation, but I expressed my opinion that I didn't think the government should be funding any art. Let […]
It's a lost art in letter-writing, mainly because it can be difficult to pull off, but Robert J. Salvi of San Diego did it in this morning's Union-Tribune. I think it's a grand idea for Lincoln Middle School to rid itself of the Gifted and Talented Education, or GATE, stigma. In fact, I'm hoping other […]
CNN announced today that they would be knocking down numerous interior walls and enlarging the building's front entrance in order to accomodate the ever expanding ego of Ted Turner. Turner, not known for his modesty, credited his own efforts for helping to end the Cold War, and noted that he launched the Goodwill Games in […]
In a letter to The Wall Street Journal today, the spokeswoman for the International Committee of the Red Cross denies an earlier Journal editorial that charged a ICRC official with using a Nazi slur. Let's just say that I'm not at all convinced by the ICRC's letter -- and this is a big part of […]
After sitting in traffic for ages in the middle of the night last night as Caltrans worked on a portion of the I-15 -- work that is supposed to continue all week -- they did something smart tonight. After having traffic backed up for nearly a mile and an hour, they opened the carpool lanes […]
The New York Times first ombudsman has finished his term -- and started up a nasty fight with the Times' most notorious hack. You can check out the latest salvo here on the new public editor's "Web Journal" (it's called a "blog" guys!). I'd like to highlight one comment from Dan Okrent that reveals that […]
I didn't really pay much attention to last week's article by The New York Times' Thomas Friedman urging the United States to shut down the Guantanamo Bay detention center for terrorists. Why? For a couple of reasons: First, even if I tried really, really hard, I couldn't care less what the press in foreign countries […]