Archive for April, 2008
An Injury to One…
Wednesday, April 30th, 2008 Posted in Politics, San Francisco | No Comments »
... is an injury to all. The International Longshoremen's Union has a long and honorable history in San Francisco. On Thursday, May 1, its members will extend that history by closing ... Read more..Of Samurai, Sex, and Spiders
Monday, April 28th, 2008 Posted in Asia, Books, San Francisco, The Arts | No Comments »
When the world was too much with samurai in 17th- and 18th-century Japan, they headed down to the Yoshiwara district of low-city Edo. Last week, in a similar mood, I ... Read more..Noodling on the News — Channeling Kafka
Friday, April 25th, 2008 Posted in MediaWatch, Noodling, Politics, San Francisco, Stories | No Comments »
On the third planet from the sun, Bob Egelko wrote in the San Francisco Chronicle: San Francisco --- Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation, a now-defunct organization that was once on the government's terrorist ... Read more..Class Acts
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008 Posted in MediaWatch, Politics, San Francisco | No Comments »
SOMETIMES THE NEWS sounds like it’s a literal translation from Albanian. The words are familiar. But they don’t make any sense... Maybe Humpty Dumpty has been running the show. You ... Read more..Tripe à la Mode de Caen
Monday, April 21st, 2008 Posted in Books, MediaWatch, Politics, San Francisco | No Comments »
WANNA WIN an easy bet? Next time you're walking down a busy street in SF, wager that most of the people there have never read Herb Caen. Go up to ... Read more..Nothing This Week
Monday, April 14th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
Come back next Monday --- April 21 --- for the beginning of a new & different posting. Read more..Noodling on the News — When the C-in-C Calls
Friday, April 4th, 2008 Posted in Noodling, Politics, Stories | No Comments »
On the third planet from the sun, the New York Times wrote in an editorial, [John C.] Yoo, who, inexplicably, teaches law at the University of California, Berkeley, never directly argues ... Read more..Noodling on the News — The Witness
Thursday, April 3rd, 2008 Posted in Noodling, Politics, San Francisco, Stories | No Comments »
On the third planet from the sun, Cecelia M. Vega wrote in the San Francisco Chronicle, A series of new television and radio commercials, billboards and bus shelter signs will soon ... Read more..Noodling on the News — Over the Waives
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008 Posted in Noodling, Politics, Stories | No Comments »
On the third planet from the sun, Roger Runningen wrote in Bloomberg.com, The U.S. wants to start construction next year of a missile site in Poland for 10 interceptors and a ... Read more..Noodling on the News — Catching Z’s
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008 Posted in Noodling, San Francisco, Stories | No Comments »
On the third planet from the sun, Gwen Knapp wrote in the San Francisco Chronicle, For the most part, Zito didn't throw harder than 84 mph all day. He knows his ... Read more..