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California imposes no-chew law for big leagues
Good question.— October 15, 2015 8:58 p.m.
California imposes no-chew law for big leagues
Here's one of those statements that should not be permitted to gather dust in some "cloud." It bears repeating and repeating and repeating.— October 15, 2015 8:45 p.m.
California imposes no-chew law for big leagues
Nothing tops the time I was chastityized by Wordperfect (when the company was based in Utah) for writing Homo sapiens. "Do not use hurtful language" or some such morally superior and condescending tone. The Reader police could, however, simply say that the word was not permitted rather than get into the scolding thing. But I realize that context is everything, and this culture is even more blue-nosed than the bible-thumping one I grew up in. For example, women nursed their babies openly without suffocating them with claustrophobic cloths and having to suffer the indignities that so many mothers have to today. This culture has a lot of growing up to do, and suppression of expression and control-freakery, like imposing "democracy" around the world at the tip of a drone, are not likely to achieve our self-righteous dreams of a "new world order." Fellow readers of the Reader, put your oars into the water and paddle against all currents of absurdity (calling them as you see them) with vigor! Don't run and hide whilst Gary Cooper has to take "them" on alone. Mediocrity is no excuse.— October 15, 2015 8:41 p.m.
San Diego is 12th greenest city
Oh, oh, OH! What can I say? Where do I start? "Green" is on of those words that have been hijacked and distorted by PR types. Dick should have put the PR suits first. The problem with buzz words, slogans, euphemisms, and the like is that they distort reality and draw our attention to relatively insignificant sub-issues rather than truly reconciling the acts of humans with the earth and its life. Every time I hear Obama say, "renewable" fuels (e.g. methanol), I want to scream! Like Bush with his "switchgrass solution"--hilariously ironic and even accurate--but stupid.— October 15, 2015 3:53 p.m.
Santa Ysabel Art Gallery
This is one of the best "small" galleries I have ever visited. It is a real sleeper that celebrates the best of LOCAL art talent. The owner has a special talent for recognizing the quality of the work rather than the "fame" of the artist, but many or most of the artists I have seen exhibited there are certainly not "unknowns" either. It is a "must" stop on the way to the mountains or the desert, even if you do have to look for it. Not that difficult in this tiny village.— October 15, 2015 3:16 p.m.
U-T dispute with parent gets ink
"After the announced lower forecast, Tribune Publishing stock took a beating. Tribune Publishing seems to have been cutting off its nose to spite its face." Could there be a method in this madness? Is driving down a stock, then buying on the bounce something that never happens?— October 15, 2015 10:17 a.m.
U-T dispute with parent gets ink
One gigantic solar flare and poof! But what is chiseled in stone will remain, if fragmentary. When libraries started "digitizing" the newspapers from the 19th century and chucking the smelly old relics, they lost my support.— October 15, 2015 10:12 a.m.
California imposes no-chew law for big leagues
Why am I astounded at the generosity of spirit that still exists in this culture?— October 15, 2015 10:07 a.m.
California imposes no-chew law for big leagues
It's the old "camel's-nose-in-the-tent" story all over again. Or "boiling a live frog." All kinds of control-freaks will not stop at controlling what color you paint your mailbox--"Today ze mailbox, tomorrow ze vorld!" It's inhuman nature. "First they came for . . . then they came for . . . me, but it was too late to stop them by then." That's why one must operate from principle, not from anecdote--no matter how well it aligns with one's prejudices.— October 15, 2015 10:03 a.m.
California imposes no-chew law for big leagues
Gossip is bad, but not illegal; therefore I hope we contributors are all safe from the clutches of the law. Suicide is legal, I suppose, as long as you do it slowly and painfully and expensively enough. It does get complicated, but we all pay through taxes, higher insurance, and medical bills, for example, for all kinds of damn foolishness. Rescuers even lose their lives and suffer hardship because of damn fools who are too stupid to come in out of the rain, etc. Tw— October 14, 2015 5:18 p.m.