The assertion that at any hour of any day, in Berkeley, a protest against something is being conducted may be an example bit of hyperbole but soon that may become just a chance to add the old "and that's a fact" declaration to the trend spotting updates that may soon be filed.
Will the homeless issue debate provide the local political activist known as Ninja Kitty with a foundation for building an image as the new Mario Savio?
Due to the heavy workload at the World's Laziest Journalist New Organization headquarters we will have to postpone reading and reviewing "A Renegade History of the United States," by Thaddeus Russell and get back to it later in the year.
In an effort to keep up with technological advances, the World's Laziest Journalist intends to go to the Berkeley Community Media studios and get the training (an introductory course is starting next week) needed to expand the activities of the WLJ news operations to include a cable access TV show.
Ignoring the renewed uproar over medical care for America's military veterans while concentrating on Berkeley's treatment of vagabonds may seem to be an example of poor judgment of news value, but if the mission statement for the World's Laziest Journalist New Organization should be compared to the job Indian scouts did for the U. S. Cavalry back in the day, it may then make sense to do brief trend spotting items rather than ones that resemble the concept of a trench warfare soldier in WWI. (Was the expression "doughboy" meant to convey the concept of the unquestioning conformity subtly provided by the image a cookie cutter in action?)
Should we try to start an online topic that goes viral by suggesting that the potential of televising the (possible) execution of whatzizface in Boston as a way of discouraging youngsters in the future from avoiding responsibility for their choices in life? Where are Getty and Armstrong when we really need them?
Is a backlash against political correctness brewing in the land of Free Speech? That does seem to be happening in the Frisco area. Will some "shock jock" grab headlines by spouting some terms that are "politically insensitive and incorrect"?
In an era when a faulty tail light can get (some) drivers killed, it may be time to use this closing quote by Hermann Goering (from page 825 of Bartlett's): "Shoot first and inquire afterwards, and if you make mistakes, I will protect you."
Now the disk jockey will play Bob Segar's "Still the Same," "Brother, can you spare a dime," and the new song, by Merle Haggard and Willie Nelson, "It all goes to Pot." We have to fact check the fact that some folks in Berkeley who protested the execution of Caryl Chessman, will be back in action to urge that Joker Sir Nieff's life be spared. Have a "the governor just issued a stay of execution order" type week.
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