Archive for March, 2004

Friday, March 12th, 2004

Dirty bombs

Thursday (March 11) in The Sun (Bremerton, Washington) fellow reporter Chris Barron wrote that in December at the Bangor Sub Base there was an accident involving a nuclear missile. It didn’t blow up (youdda heard about that sooner), but had it been worse the plutonium inside could have leaked or escaped by way of a […]

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Tuesday, March 9th, 2004

Gettin’ all Republican on ya

Dino Rossi, a Republican looking to become Washington’s governor, told a cool story today at an event I covered. DISCLAIMER: DON’T ASSUME YOU KNOW HOW I’LL VOTE JUST BECAUSE OF THIS LITTLE BLOG.
His four kids were bugging him for a dog. They had lost their cat (to death, I think) and wanted a dog to […]

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Monday, March 8th, 2004

Things I learned from my daughter during a flap about plagiarism

Last week I was home around noon when my wife (Diana) picked up my daughter (Sarah) from kindergarten. As Diana and Sarah were walking through the door I heard Diana ask Sarah why Matthew was crying. My heart broke. Later she asked why Sarah was sitting alone on the bus. Sarah said she didn’t want […]

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Friday, March 5th, 2004

Writing opinions and a little ditty about Billy

I appreciate the opportunity to blog, even though I haven’t really told anyone about it (that is until I invited Billy’s friends to see my post).
My frustration is my career goal is to end up writing opinion columns, but while I’m reporting I can’t really do it. I took the liberty of doing it on […]

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Thursday, March 4th, 2004

An open letter to Katie

Dear Katie;
I understand friendship can blind your otherwise common sense. So on some level I can forgive you for defending your plagiarist friend Billy. It doesn’t change the fact that he was an unaccountable jerk in his actions toward Eric Snider. Billy stole Eric’s stuff, then calls Eric a pedophile when Eric calls him on […]

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