Our New Issue

1. Thanks to Mari Herreras for the blog entry breaking the story (“RTA Mysteries Resolved in April?”) – and to the Tucson Weekly for pointing out that the Attorney General makes matters worse in the eyes of the skeptics (This week’s “Skinny”) by secretly transporting the RTA ballots to an undisclosed location.

   The easy position in this case would be to say “They bug the attorney general, he finally does something, and now they’re still bitching.” Instead, the Weekly offers a timely account of what the concerns are about.

   Damn, no excuse to chastise the Weekly this time…

2. Too bad JT, cause that’s just what we live for around here. There must be something…

3. Nice job Tom Danehy. I think I just lost brain cells after reading your inane column debunking some pamphlet you found at church.

   Danehy sure has a hard-on for anti-vegetarianism. It really bothers him that people out there want to encourage other people to eat a certain way.

   The problem with Danehy’s columns is he approaches most subjects from a foundation of not just ignorance, but “aw shucks I’m just an ordinary guy, bug dag gummit I got common sense and a funny way with turnin’ a phrase” styled ignorance.

   Imagine building a whole writing career around that.

4. Remember the 1980’s hit “Money for Nothing” (aka “I Want My MTV”)? Of course you do — it was on the FM radio five minutes ago.

   Schuster’s TW piece about DTV nonconversion: Media Watch: Locals Unhappy With Digital-TV-Conversion Process

   over there at:

   http://www.tucsonweekly.com/gbase/Currents/Content?oid=oid:122806

   is a respite from the understandable doom and gloom over at the dailyworld.

   Now comes DeLong to remind us of first things first, with his “Preparing the Obituary —
   Netizens and the news business are locked in a mutually destructive death spiral. Can anything arrest the decline?” at:

   http://american.com/archive/2009/february-2009/preparing-the-obituary

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