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U-T Circulation Continues Fall. Ditto for Other Southern California Dailies
The UT needs to grab younger readers. I would try writing sports in the language of the players. Perhaps replace some of the tiny doodles of the comic pages with the slick ink work of modern graphic novelists. I would do collectable full pages for the Comic Con. Newspapers must attract younger readers, those that spend $10 on comic books and sell out Harry Potter. The young read, but not newspapers. They will pay more for better writing and drawing, but won't read the boring for free. I'm with them.— April 29, 2010 2:49 p.m.
Last of SPAWAR Defendants Sentenced to Prison
Normally the customer uses an alias, I think that's why they call them 'johns'. Strangely, in many high profile cases, men smart enough to know better let their own name be known. Perhaps those who fight so hard to make themselves famous just can't blend into the wallpaper, even when they must. Often these high profile cases make their egomaniac perpetrators seem more endearing, because it reveals the helpless, lonely child underneath the blustering facade. All day and into the evening the greedy rule the earth, but not after midnight.— April 20, 2010 3:39 a.m.
Last of SPAWAR Defendants Sentenced to Prison
Some caveats. As a cabdriver, I did not give or recieve free rides. My advice was delivered at maximum safe speed with the meter running. 120 an hour would be a fair rate today. Cheaper than a psychiatrist, and the view is better. As for quality, if Eliot Spitzer had listened to his cabdriver, who knows how to avoid trouble, he would be governor of New York today.— April 18, 2010 1 p.m.
Last of SPAWAR Defendants Sentenced to Prison
In my cab days The Butcher Shop was less notorious than other Mission Valley spots. All hotels have call girls. Men are so idiotic that they might proposition prostitutes in a prominent watering hole recommended by the chief of police, then be surprised when they are extorted by their co-conspirators. Stick with the street girls, idiots, and don't give your real name. If you need a buddy to help you go whoring, why not buy some KY jelly and skip the girl? Saves money. E. Waugh THE LOVED ONE is a great little novel. The movie, co-written by Terry Southern of the incomparable DR. STRANGELOVE, must have some great lines. I'm looking for it.— April 16, 2010 2:03 a.m.
Kittle to Take News Slot at KUSI-TV
Rob Kittle hogs the microphone, this we know from his KPBS appearances. I expect his commentary right after the KUSI singing weatherman. Unlike other comics like Limbaugh, Beck, or Colbert, he seems ignorant of his comic effect, even with the bow tie. KUSI will have to lock him off the sound stage to keep him from giving this town one more laugh.— April 14, 2010 1:39 p.m.
Kittle to Take News Slot at KUSI-TV
As a journalist Rob Kittle is a sleazy joke. As a TV comentator he's a total scream. I can't forget him playing the shreiking wife on KPBS. That bow tie. That whine. This might be very funny.— April 13, 2010 12:35 a.m.
NY Times Knocks Company Copley Used to Fight Unemployment Claims
Social programs should encourage employers to help losers win jobs, instead we penalize them with multiple taxes and insurance programs. The EDD employer penalties make no sense, the employee needed a job when they were hired, employers shouldn't be punished for helping them temporarily. The EDD is symptom of our national mental disease. We are a socialist nation at war with socialism and the poor, and in love with the rich. We do socialism badly, treating unemployment claims like a criminal offense, while the rich ship jobs overseas to the cheers of the financial markets. Now the poor have no money to buy the surplus inventory that factories oversupply. Unemployment insurance was designed by socialists to temporarily sustain demand during downturns like this one, and the 1930's, but years of fighting 1930's socialism have left this safety net badly damaged. Rich and poor share this disaster, the economy will only improve when workers have the money to buy the surplus manufacture. Many of the rich understand this. Others, like the Copley management, will fight their crew until the ship sinks.— April 7, 2010 11:52 a.m.
NY Times Knocks Company Copley Used to Fight Unemployment Claims
When companies contest five figure unemployment claims all the way to Superior Court, and Bernie Madoff's tens of billions of fraud is ignored until the checks bounce, something is insane, it may be attitudes towards rich and poor. The UT over the years has endorsed the belief that the rich are honest and self governing, and the poor are criminal threats to the rich. who should be suppressed. Only this paranoid attitude could justify treating scores of laid off workers in a dying company as "voluntary". Only this paranoid attitude could create the bureaucratic nightmare that Surfpuppy describes, where more money is spent fighting claims than paying them. We should make peace with the poor, and better supervise the rich.— April 7, 2010 12:24 a.m.
NY Times Knocks Company Copley Used to Fight Unemployment Claims
to 13 From the "Impeach Earl Warren" 1960's until today, conservatives have broadly agreed that unemployment insurance should be repealed, and that court packing is the best way to repeal popular laws through loopholes. Though I can't speak to your specific case, the PUC, the NLRB, the SEC, have all been packed with nominees opposed to the laws they were intended to enforce. The disasters these agencies supervised were the result of policy, not ineptitude. From your eye opening description, the EDD might be run by those who intend to destroy unemployment insurance from within, while raking in fees as administrative judges. Clarence Thomas once decided sexual harassment prosecutions. He won that post and his present one because he utterly opposes the laws he was paid to enforce. We can call him, and your EDD judge, vile, because they pervert justice. but don't call them stupid. Call them Republicans.— April 5, 2010 11:20 p.m.
SD Home Values Rise, Reports S&P
To 13 Yeats was referring to those thirsty butterflies who, in their quest for nectar, thoughtlessly pollinate. I love them. Now admit that opera lovers love and need crowds. Opera lovers can drop the Jean Pierre Ponnelle "Madama Butterfly" in their video machine and be certain of seeing a masterpiece, but opera lovers prefer crowds. The performers love them. We hate crowding. The modern city must enable crowds without congestion, and this requires careful planning. San Diegans in the past planned well, and gave us parkland and zoning laws. We must fight to save this legacy from haphazard development. Real estate bets on this fight. I like our real estate long term. I think it will outperform money borrowed at today''s attractive rates, because the government will print money until inflation is restored. The housing price deflation is temporary, but may continue short term.— April 1, 2010 2:08 p.m.