Q & A
Question: Do you mind when readers point out typos on your blog?Answer: Not in the least. I write this blog with no editor but me ... and I'm flying when I do -- to keep up with my other duties, too. You, O My Reader,…
FRIDAY, JAN. 14, 2005
Final Word (1/14/05)
I go back and forth re. the national/int'l content of Hot Potatoes. Since the first of the year, I've cut it down continually, to almost nothing. Time management is the problem. I have a rough time keeping up with the output now. However, I regret…
Blog Word of the Day
Today's word from the blogosphere (or blogistan) is (drum roll, puh-leez) -- blogroach.Blogroach, according to Samizdata, is a reader who infests the comment section of a weblog, disagreeing with everything posted in the most obnoxious manner possible.Sentence: So far -- knock on wood -- Hot…
You think you know a thing or two about ...
...inaugaral speeches? Take this quiz here.
Peanut Gallery (Remembering MLKJr)
The celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr. this week is a personal journey for me. In the autumn of 1966, I was able to sit in those pews at the Ebinezer Baptist Church in Atlanta and hear him speak to his parishoners. I was in…
Bill McCrory of Whitecaps opines ...
...on the use of anonymous sources here.
Marianne Love's rhapsody of ...
...mother's fudge simply is a good read here.And Marianne's brother, Jim Tibbs, provides another of his clever 'toons here.
Best of the Northwest (1/14/05)
Remember that part in Gov. Dirk Kempthorne's State of the State speech when he talked about tax incentives to woo and/or keep Fortune 500 companies? (In our Editorial Board meeting yesterday, The Dirk Tater wouldn't say whom he'd talked to re. the incentives but he…
D.F. Oliveria started Huckleberries Online on Feb. 16, 2004. Oliveria's Sunday print Huckleberries is a past winner of the national Herb Caen Memorial Column contest.