Monthly Archives: November 2007

Riding The Wave

Betty Pleasant, who writes the Soulvine column in The Wave newspaper in Los Angeles, in the following gives her take on Pasadena — by turns borderline libelous and just plain odd, and always poorly written — apparently derived without the … Continue reading

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Students vs. commie collaboration

Amanda Fink, a Polytechnic School senior and opinion editor of the Pasadena school’s newspaper, The Paw Print, today launched a Web site, www.BoycottYahoo.com, lambasting the Internet giant for turning over to Beijing authorities a Chinese journalist who objected to a … Continue reading

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Hard rain

The other day Kitty Felde on KPCC was interviewing Bill Patzert, everyone’s favorite JPL meteorologist, about the La Nina condition our science reporter Elise Kleeman had previously reported on — the Pacific weather pattern that’s set to keep us in … Continue reading

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Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee

At first, I resisted. I told Fuller prof Tim Kelly that I didn’t really think going out to lunch with government types from the Consulate General of the People’s Republic of China in Los Angeles was a good idea. On … Continue reading

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