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May.06.2011 - 10:20 am
Panetta: The Parochial View
My friend Steve Hauk recently posted a nice item about Leon Panetta. Here's a column I wrote about Panetta, published in the Monterey County Herald on Wednesday:    Whether the...
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Mar.30.2008 - 10:45 pm
One cranky bastard reviews another
Too much time has apparently passed since anyone took the time to deliver a postmortem groin kick to John Steinbeck. Forty years dead, Steinbeck has not been properly pilloried by...
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Feb.16.2008 - 11:49 pm
flame out on the city desk
The phone. The banter. The questions. The answers. The issues. The problems. The demands. The retractions. The phone. The police scanner. The needs. The anger. The sadness. The...
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Feb.13.2008 - 11:40 pm
instant gratification
If seeing the completed work in print is the narcotic, writers at daily newspapers are the worst of the shameless junkies. The adrenaline spike of unrelenting deadlines is our...
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Comments from Joe

May.23.2011 - 2:56 pm
In response to: Panetta: The Parochial View
Dr. Caustic can be quite the
Dr. Caustic can be quite the cynic sometimes!
May.05.2011 - 1:09 pm
In response to: Panetta
The Parochial View
My column today . . . www.montereyherald.com/opinion/ci_17997802
Apr.07.2008 - 10:41 pm
In response to: Gasp!
Go forth and have fun
Reunions are the great equalizer. Hope you have a great time.    
Feb.21.2008 - 6:29 pm
In response to: Steinbeck _ armed (a Colt revolver) with the truth
Johnny Got a Gun
Interesting research, Steve. And just in time for Steinbeck's birthday. Where on earth did you unearth the license...
Feb.15.2008 - 11:30 pm
In response to: Obama, Ben Franklin and Mark Twain among the world's largest minority _ and was George Washington a lefty or a righty?
Zurdo
There you go with that lefty stuff again. Where's HUAC when we need it?
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I write for a newspaper, the Monterey County Herald. I help produce the stock in trade for community journalism: community news, a voice for the afflicted, daily nonfiction, the first swipe at history -- and the gray type around the advertising. I've been...
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