In Joel Stein’s L.A. Times piece this morning, “Imitating L.A.’s Mr. October,” he describes a video he made for the website actober.com. As a former Dodger fan, I loved it, but worried that he wouldn’t give his pitcher her due. I shouldn’t have been concerned. Here’s the video, “Joel Stein’s actober”:
In honor of my son [...]
I had intended to officially launch this blog yesterday, on the 201st anniversary of Captain William Clark’s “We commenced wrighting” journal entry. But, in the spirit of what’s a sort of procrastination diary, I didn’t make the deadline. I was too busy reading Household Gods, watching the end of “Journeyman,” and not writing my California [...]
Why I am not a political pundit: Back on March 20, I e-mailed a friend that “Gonzales…will be out within two weeks.” Six months later we can finally wave goodbye to Alberto; I fear, however, that my political soothsaying days are over before they even began.
Not to change the subject, but I did say [...]
I have two kids entering middle school this year, so my wife and I will take any homework help we can get. David Colker of the LA Times gave a great list of websites today in his “Take notes: websites for students.”
Since Times articles have a way of disappearing, here are the links less Colker’s [...]
Just one more Times article, and then I’ll leave you alone.
In “The False Modesty Movement,” Anne Ream writes about a campaign whose adherents “argue for curfews on college campuses, decry coed bathrooms and advocate a ‘chaste but chic’ dress code for teens and young women.”
In light of, among so many other things, this photo that [...]
Speaking of poor crisis management skills, how about that Robert E. Murray, CEO of Murray Energy and part owner of the Crandall Canyon Mine in Utah. In “A Disaster at Dealing with Catastrophe” (though with the duller on-line title, “Crisis PR in the mines”), Jon Harmon writes in today’s LA Times about Murray’s catastrophic shortcomings.
And [...]
This morning’s LA Times contained a full-page ad from Countrywide Bank in the shape of an open letter from Countrywide’s president and COO Timothy Wennes. Headed “Straight Talk From Countrywide Bank,” it was anything but.
“In light of recent media attention,” Wennes begins, “we’d like to offer some reassuring facts.” He then goes on to write [...]
