Objectivity is a Dream

As a blogger who writes mainly but not entirely about politics, I do my level best to approach political topics with some degree of objectivity.
Naturally, complete objectivity isn’t possible. We all have our biases and they creep unnoticed into our writings. And then we are castigated by someone because we’ve lost our objectivity.
My own strategy [...]

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Belated Wedding Registry

Now that Mr. and Mrs. Gavo have released a list of their wedding gifts and everyone has had a chance to sneer about the number of picture frames and crock pots, our intrepid staff thought we ought to compile our own list of original gifts we would have given had the Newsom camp had the [...]

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Are Newspapers a Thing of the Past?

Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne envisions a world without print journalism in his on-line column today. It isn’t pretty for the legions of working journalists and would-be-journalists.
Under the rules of a capitalist economic system, print journalism will be replaced by some form of electronically-transmitted news.  Dionne uses a nice analogy, however, to hold out hope [...]

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North Korea Missile Threat

Let me see if I have this right. North Korea fires another missile that fizzled and all of a sudden the United Nations Security Council calls an emergency meeting to meet the “threat.”
Help me count the number of times the following script has played out. I’ve lost track, but never mind. It’s so predictable. Kim [...]

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California’s 2010 Race for Governor

2010 will be the year of elections in California. The Primary Election will be held on June 8. Five months later, on November 2, the General Election will decide the outcome of several statewide offices, including Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and Attorney General, among others.
The one race that has captured almost everyone’s attention so far is [...]

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