My LTE in today's paper
This five sentence LTE is actually one of my longer ones. Average is three sentences.Approach to incidents shows inconsistencyA Republican-led Congress spent five years conducting nine investigations...
View ArticleTime for a blogger ethics panel
In today’s San Francisco Chronicle, Journalism Professor Edward Wasserman decries what the Internet has done to his noble calling.My DK User ID # is 207, because I signed up in 2003 on the first day...
View ArticleMy LTE gets published
My "letter to the editor" appeared in the July 14 Marin Independent Journal . Here is the link, but I will spare you from clicking it. Here's the letter:Editor,As the January 6 cases unfold against the...
View Article45 Years Ago
45 years ago yesterday, I went up on top of a steep hill with two clocks and six friends. Our object was to determine for all time which of us was the fastest down a long steep hill on our 40 year old...
View ArticleMy LTE published
This letter to the editor ran in yesterday’s San Rafael Independent Journal.COVID-19 is currently the leading cause of death among active police officers. With this in mind, I called the Central Marin...
View Article"Take Your Hands Out of Your Pockets!"
I have heard that directive several times.One of those times was when I walked over to a police car idling in a parking lot to tell the driver to move so I could back out of a designated space.When did...
View ArticleBad LTE Editing
I am a writer, with hundreds of magazine articles and two books. I have held editorial positions at several national magazines.I often contribute letters to the editor, and most of them get printed....
View ArticleThe Student Paper gets the SBF Story the Media Missed
The student newspaper The Stanford Daily exposed the rot at the heart of the seat of higher learning that hosts the right-wing Hoover Institution.After being arrested for his crypto Ponzi scheme FTX,...
View ArticleThe best scam bait since... Ever
This was the third time I got a scam call with the "grandson in jail" script. I bungled the first two, but I finally took one scammer to the limit. There must be a thousand possible scripts to explain...
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