Occasionally we luck out and can relate personal experiences as a way of explaining our line of reasoning that has led to our hunches and expectations. For example, it may sound preposterous for an online political pundit in Berkeley to apply for press credentials to cover the next installment of the Oscar Awards Ceremony, but how many of the press corps who will have access to that event will be able to compare and contrast it to what happened backstage when "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" collected numerous gold statuettes? We hope that the unique qualification of being able assess how much the event has changed in the last forty years will be a trump card and get us the opportunity to take another look at the famous news event.
If we had not yet celebrated our 28th birthday, we would be lean and hungry as afar as achieving career boost scoops is concerned, but since we have no such long-term goals on our "to-do list," we have no compelling need to even try to contact our grade school classmate, Joe Biden (first and second grade at St. Paul's in Scranton) and ask him a "gottcha" question.
Recently the Isis forces held a victory parade and the precision of the drone strikes has been repeatedly reported in American media, but (to the best of our effort to ascertain it) no TV talking head has mused about why no drone strikes were used to decimate the victory parade.
If (subjunctive mood alert!) our claim that the World's
Laziest Journalist election desk's decision to make the call that JEB has won
the 2016 Presidential Election is prescient, we might be perceived as being
clairvoyant, but no mainstream media writer has the leeway to make such a
claim.
If JEB wins; and if the mainstream media will be required to report that it was (in retrospect) a referendum on Dubya's war policies (just as Dubya said after it was completed, that the 2004 election also was), then Americans will be presented that conclusion on a "take it or leave it" basis. There would be no alternative assessment of the win available.
If that is a unique insight, we are entitled to say "Taaah-dah!" If not, we can just shrug it off. We don't get much chance to see TV commentators, so we can shrug it off and say: "S'en loi, G. I.!"
When Berkeley resident/author Michael Parenti was told about the topic for this column, he responded that by saying that it would be a propitious opportunity for us to plug his newest book, "Profit Pathology and other indecencies." We concurred.
[Note from the Photo Editor: we used art done by the Berkeley artist known as Broke as an illustration for this week's column.]
The most famous quote to come out of Berkeley was: "Never trust anyone over thirty."
Disk jockey will play Vera Lynn's "A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square," Simon and Garfunkel's "Mrs. Robinson," and Alice Cooper's School's out!" We have to go and fact check the assertion that Jack London was (briefly) a student at UCB. Have a sesquipedalian type week.
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