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More than a decade ago when I was a reporter for the Lompoc Record I had a great story drop into my lap. A female student (she was 18) at one of the area high schools (there are two) had received work-study credit for stripping. I'm not talking about removing the bark from wood, I'm […]

I found this one-panel webcomic, better-drawn than I could accomplish, that sorta just says it all.

THIS POST HAS BEEN UPDATED It's perhaps the most basic thing you get taught in a journalism class: Get both sides of the story. If Group A accuses Person B of Bad Thing X, you do your darndest to get Person B's side of the story. If Person B doesn't respond, you put that in […]

It was buried at the end of the Associated Press report on the House vote to hold two White House officials in contempt. The House voted Thursday to hold two of President Bush's confidants in contempt for failing to cooperate with an inquiry into whether a purge of federal prosecutors was politically motivated. The first […]

Starting in the early morning hours of Sunday, terrorists worldwide could take solace in the fact that U.S. intelligence agencies would have to jump through all sorts of hoops to listen in on their private phone conversations. How did this happen? First a FISA court ruled bizarrely, that terrorists have a right to privacy. Well, […]

Fidel Castro, dead for a couple years, has announced that he won't "run" for office again. Good riddance. Here's hoping that Cuba Libre is close.

For some strange reason, the calendar, category list and blogroll normally on the sidebar have disappeared (from the Redoable template). I wasn't futzing with the template, so I don't know how this happened. If you want to access the blogroll or any of the other things that are missing, for the time being I suggest […]

I've got Jewel's "Who will save your soul?" song stuck in my head after listening to this speech by Michelle Obama, wife of Democratic presidential hopeful Barack, from a campaign rally a couple weeks back at UCLA. Captain Ed has helpfully provided a partial transcript of the remarks. In 2008, we are still a nation […]

There's a certain amount of self-interest involved, but I'm going to go out on a limb and defend nutty Bush-hater Chez Pazienza to a limited extent. Pazienza is a blogger in his spare time. His paying gig was as a senior producer for CNN's "American Morning." I say "was" because Panzienza was fired earlier this […]

I came across this article by former PBS ombudsman Jeffrey Dvorkin in Salon earlier this week decrying the abolishment of the ombudsman job at many media outlets. It's an interesting subject to me, but the most interesting part of the column is unrelated to the ombudsman's job, it's this: The Middle East has always been […]