Obamajam

21 April 2011

I’m not covering Obama’s Obamajam/fundraiser/event in LA, but I was reading this LAT article and a sentence in it really perplexed me. No, not the lede in the passive voice: Gridlock conditions were reported Thursday afternoon in West Los Angeles after President Obama arrived at LAX and then boarded a helicopter as he kicked off [...]

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Last Stand on the Island…Isle de Jean Charles

29 March 2011

  I’ll be interested to see how this turns out. Eve Troeh and I interviewed Wen Billiot and Chief Albert a few years ago. So let’s understand that at least some but not all of what I’m writing comes from that place reporters have, where a story once told is theirs forever. Still. I kinda [...]

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The language of belief in climate change & politics

15 February 2011

I’ve been thinking about the language people use to describe their ideas about climate change. Kate Sheppard at Mother Jones had a post about the efforts of 3 congressmen to defund NASA’s monitoring of changing climatic conditions, which brought to the front of my mind all the efforts of GOP congressmen to end monitoring a [...]

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