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UCSD’s prep school Covid testing doesn't pay the bills
Wow.you really have some sad issues. Good luck in getting help.— October 7, 2022 7:50 a.m.
UCSD’s prep school Covid testing doesn't pay the bills
Agreed. His articles on any and all topics are an unusual, perhaps unique blend of nihilism and schadenfreude.— October 6, 2022 1:26 p.m.
Cub reporter for L.A. Times gets Page One break with PSA crash story
Lol all I can say is that you certainly have an unusual definition of “odd” in describing the article as oddly written and any word you didn’t hear on the playground in grammar school as “distancing.” Here’s hoping you never taught English or edited an essay other than your own!— September 25, 2022 2:17 p.m.
Cub reporter for L.A. Times gets Page One break with PSA crash story
I don’t believe the unpleasant but riveting experiences of the reporter remotely parallel the Kobe Bryant incident, and I’ll pass on speculating about chauvinism and sexism as that too much of the time becomes a fact-free zone of unmoored speculation. But being a retired English instructor, I would gently point out that “naïf” is of French derivation. In England the more common words are dupe and gullible, as they are in the U.S. Inebriate is from Latin, and in England the most common word for a drunk or inebriate is sot. I suspect the writer’s use of lift as a second reference for elevator was a matter of style in order not to repeat the same word. The entire article is written in an unadorned style (oh dear, am I British-izing by not using plain or direct?) which I imagine a Londoner could find primitive.— September 25, 2022 11:34 a.m.
Which San Diego newspaperman did John Glenn get to spike the astronaut sex story?
A fascinating and confounding article. I guess most anything is theoretically possible but as an 84-year-old who went to State, I’d find it pretty unlikely the Aztec would have even cared and it wasn’t even a daily then. UCSD didn’t even exist then. From what I gather from this article, John Glenn would have had to be lying through his teeth about almost everything if you assume the paper somehow was a little one around the county like the Escondido Advocate and he claimed to check it at the Kona Kai club. You might as well assume the publisher he says he begged was the Man in The Moon. And those little papers were not shady but respectable and covered nothing outside their towns. Growing up in Escondido, I remember the Advocate would even ask the high school coach to give them an article and take a photo for them every week when there was a football game because they didn’t have a reporter or photographer. I personally think that if you start speculating that Glenn got this part wrong or made that part up, it’s more likely he made up the whole newspaper thing just to have a run at Shepard. Even largely taking him at his word, how could he or Shepard or the Air Force spokesman ever be sure that photos would not surface somewhere later on? The guy who took the photos would have been no fool and knew he had something valuable and could get them printed somewhere.— July 1, 2022 7:13 a.m.