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Come join us at our new home on wordpress: nemesisofevil.com. That goes for both of you.

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In case you somehow missed the story of the notorious Greek prisoners escaping from Greece's maximum security prison by helicopter for the second time in three years, check it out here.My favorite part is that their accomplice was a woman, who lowered a rope ladder from the helicopter and fired at jail guards with a machine gun. Maybe she could teach NOE a thing or two about feminism...

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The Professor talked himself into a flip-flop, but the Mountain View City Council voted 5-2 to support the County's controversial bag fee. A "representative" of the "affected industries" spoke out against the measure.After Kinney gave each member 71 single-sided pages of information,council member Mike Kasperzak said Kinney needed to "cut down on [paper (sic) waste" with his handouts.I think

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I want to make two things clear at the start of this post: I have not read Richard Sutherland's 43-page "book" None Dare Call it Reason, nor do I plan to.However, I did read the Town Crier's review of it. Given that the book criticizes the Republican Party, and the Town Crier's publisher is a leader in a local Republican Party organization (a fact once again mentioned nowhere), you can probably

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This week, we find the leaders of the fifth-most educated small town in America trying to one up each other with dumber and dumber reasons for opposing a tax on plastic bags. The Los Altos City Council began the shenanigans by voting 4-1 against Santa Clara County's proposed 25¢ per bag fee. The reasoning (apparently provided for them by the sinisterly-named American Chemistry Council) seemed

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How are we saying goodbye to the Bush Administration?Having lost my motivation to write a big angry blogpost after then-President Bush paid tribute to my college teammate and his father in his farewell address, I figured I'd check out the tubes to see how other local groups are marking the occasion. (Oh sure, some people are celebrating the historic nature of Obama's inauguration, but we're not

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New York Times columnist Tom Friedman advocated that Israel conduct terrorist attacks against civilians. But, being a local blog, we'd much rather make fun of the Town Crier's parallel construction error.... police and fire department officials responded to a pedestrian accident and alleged fraud at US Bank. Los Altos police arrested a woman on suspicion of attempting to cash a fraudulent

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As many readers know, I license modeling shoots for my company. My favorite content harmonizes the beauty of the model with her surroundings, whether it be the mountains of Alaska, beaches of the Caribbean, or train stations of Mountain View.Catcall-inspired HotChixDig is a burlesque modeling site that purports to raise money for environmental protection. These local envirosluts really know how

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For those of you who travel overseas (so this applies to everyone but xenophobic NOE), the name Richard Quest may ring a bell. He's the over-enthusiastic presenter/journalist on CNN International who has been away awhile since his April arrest in Central Park under particularly perverted circumstances. Up until now, I thought he'd lost his job. But alas, CNN International decided to keep him on

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Just in case anybody had any lingering feelings of positivity about the Iraq War. Len Ramirez of KPIX interviewed Karen Meredith on this story earlier today.UPDATE: Karen, who has plenty of experience dealing with the army's bureaucratic errors (not to mention its substantive errors), puts it in perspective on her blog:This "Dear John Doe" error is not the worst thing the Army has done and sadly

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Eight years ago, when Los Altos voters favored Al Gore over George Bush, the Town Crier predictably made sure to mention "the city's rich Republican history." (Just as predictably, the paper failed to mention its publisher's prominent role in local Republican politics). Four years later, a similar article by Miss Mischief characterized my hometown as "typically a Republican stronghold."It's time

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A half-dozen angry and seemingly confused neighbors showed up at a Design Review Committee meeting two weeks ago to try to get the city to reject a use permit for a new day worker center on Escuela Ave. After belatedly learning that the Design Review Committee is charged, oddly enough, with design review: The neighbors complained about a large sign proposed the front of the facility which would

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Things are tough all over.In Mountain View, the city is again facing $5 million or more in budget cuts, and the day worker center must divide among a hundred or so workers job requests that number in single digits. When one employer wrote a bad check after hiring several workers and declined to make good on it, the director drove all the way to Monterey County to collect. Things have become so

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In 1968, Garrett Hardin wrote that "the inherent logic of the commons remorselessly generates tragedy," using the example of an unregulated cow pasture to demonstrate how individually rational exploitation of a shared resource tends to the lead to the destruction of that resource.Kudos then, to the Los Altos Festival of Lights Parade Association for recognizing that the free-for-all claiming of

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The back of Sgt. Scott McCrossin's trading card hopefully already credits him for hosting the most boring ridealong in the history of journalism, as well for convincing a judge that it was perfectly reasonable of him to pull a guy over for hanging an air freshener from his rearview mirror.His stats just got even gaudier. On October 30, he became the first Los Altos police officer to use a Taser

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Q: What was the largest newspaper in the state of California to endorse Proposition 8?A: The Los Altos Town CrierOn October 22, our hometown paper joined the Paradise Post (circulation: 8,000) as only the second paper in the state of California to endorse Proposition 8.  The Town Crier's circulation of 16,500 made it the largest newspaper in the state in favor of the measure, a distinction it

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Tip to all police officers reading this blog: If you are going to sue your department for not treating its officers fairly, don't spend your off-duty time getting drunk and firing your gun.San Francisco police are investigating Sgt. Mike Evanson after his weapon discharged at a Los Altos-area Halloween party for children and adults. Moments earlier, the host had asked Evanson not to micturate on

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LOS ALTOS, CA -- The editorial board of the Los Altos Town Crier has selected Los Altos as the area in which Los Altos residents should do most of their holiday shopping.In a studious, point-by-point analysis, the board argued, "why not shop and spend downtown and in our other shopping districts? The advantages far outweigh the disadvantages. For starters, there’s available parking.""Shoppers

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Although its exact name and precise location have yet to be determined, the new bar in downtown Los Altos is already generating buzz. Its first true test will be in eight days, the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, when the sons and daughters of Los Altos (including those who consider themselves "prodigal") return home for the holiday and immediately look for somewhere to drink. A current

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Contrary to the normal spirit of this blog, I thought I would use my inaugural post to deliver original news from a high level source.  While certain elements of NOE's readership believe the Obama election is a precursor to our city's ascendency to national prominence, and perhaps will yield a key foreign policy role for the LAHS water polo team, a member of future White House Chief of Staff Rahm

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"At last, my hometown outdoes yours," writes a Palo Alto native, referring to Police Chief Lynne Johnson's instruction that officers who see black people in certain neighborhoods stop them and "find out who they are," especially those wearing bandannas.Johnson quickly backtracked from what was most likely a verbal misstep. She was, after all, referring to suspects described by witnesses as

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Four years ago, the day after John Kerry conceded the 2004 election -- a day so depressing I spent it staring at birds in an effort to console myself, only to make myself more upset when I realized the birds were bound to suffer worst of all -- my paper ran a banner front-page headline declaring that Matt Pear, Nick Galiotto, Laura Macias and The Professor had won election to Mountain View's four

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The fighting Congressional Sanchez sisters came to UCLA Law today to talk about their childhoods and hawk their book, Dream in Color.Loretta, who last appeared on the blog two years en route to her crushing defeat of Tan "Rusty Shackleford" Nguyen, provided my favorite moments of the lecture:Justifying her decision to interrupt herself mid-sentence and get up from her seat to step on a cricket: "

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12-1, Los Altos water polo repeats as De Anza Division champs, claiming the sixth title for the Forces of Good in the last 10 years.Somebody put the highlights up on TownTube.

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Change comes to Los Altos!!!!I love the postal service as much as anyone, except maybe my college friend Addorio. I mean, just think how mind-blowing it is that you can put a letter in a box in Los Altos and for 42 cents have it probably show up in a box you've chosen 3,000 miles away. (And nevermind the fact that you could do the same thing much faster for free via e-mail). But: really?

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Barack Obama's "change" is starting to look a lot like Clinton redux. Someone might want to tell him that reassembling the Clinton administration and appointing the same, old Democratic party faithfuls isn't "change."In fact, its quite the opposite.Good to see that Lawrence Summers hasn't lost any respect from the people in power after his humiliating, forced resignation from his post as

BigDrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12058192471416012256noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23389608.post-78793798584309677582008-11-07T01:33:00.001-08:002008-11-07T01:45:34.117-08:00

An election recap is coming soon, but first: The high school teammate responsible for talking me into starting a blog does his first bit of correspondent work today, reporting from the scene outside the Westwood Mormon temple -- which happens to be built, I believe, by the grandfather of a fellow teammate and friend of the blog. The correspondent sent two drafts of his report. One was mature

Nemesis of Evilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00490899473009966189noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23389608.post-38081834983788566212008-11-05T08:09:00.000-08:002008-11-05T13:41:10.961-08:00

Bruce Barton and other Freedom Haters look as if they have scored a victory for the forces of darkness in an otherwise bright day. Proposition 8 looks to have passed with the full support of out-of-staters, the Mormon Church (which donated 40% of Yes on Prop 8 funds), ignorant LATC directors and the very slim support of California voters.Its a sad thing when 1) there is a vote to deny rights to a

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LOS ALTOS, CA -- A group of perhaps 14 people gathered outside the Los Altos Civic Center for the unveiling of the precise number of Acres of Possibilities.Bill Bluth, 76, openly admired the City Council's dedication to cost savings, exemplified by the decision to leave the remaining 40 percent of the 6' x 10' high-resolution printed color sign uncovered."They covered the most important part," he

Edward K Janowskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12192795238576409453noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23389608.post-75626994360538157782008-10-24T10:01:00.000-07:002009-01-07T00:27:08.924-08:00

Why can't the Town Crier just come out and say it doesn't like gay people? Then we wouldn't have to endure a constant stream of illogical excuses for its positions:We think it is time to stop the courts from making our laws. That’s why we elect a representative government. The ripple effect of letting the current court ruling legalizing gay marriage stand will be endless lawsuits, especially

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I can't speak with any authority about Charlotte Jarmy's personal finances, even though I did have an unread compendium of her columns collecting dust in the "free book" pile atop the filing cabinet at the Voice. I am confident, though, that when politicians and talking heads refer to "Wall Street" and "Main Street," the latter is not a substitute for "Elite-Super Rich Families."

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Months ago, the Town Crier referred to Los Altos Hills as an environmental leader. If that seemed phony at the time, consider it again in light of last week's rather unsurprising report that the Hillpeople don't really give a damn if everybody else has to conserve water.Responding to California’s second year of below-average rainfall and the driest spring on record, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger

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French politicians are outraged that their anthem was booed during a soccer game that pitted the home team "Les Bleus" against ex-colony Tunisia.In my experience (which includes extensive research into France's former and present colonies), the French just can't imagine why people wouldn't like them as colonial masters and why people might harbor some hard feelings about their colonial legacy and

BigDrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12058192471416012256noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23389608.post-73361556207854654042008-10-09T11:56:00.000-07:002008-10-09T12:06:56.324-07:00

Piracy off the Somali coast has been getting more and more press of late - especially with the pirates recent (and awesome!) seizure of a Ukranian cargo ship carrying tanks destined for god-knows-where (there is dispute - some say Sudan, though Kenya insists they are for its own military) to undoubtedly wreak further havoc on poor Africans.After France, the US and several other nations decided to

BigDrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12058192471416012256noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23389608.post-374939663844905112008-10-09T07:12:00.001-07:002008-10-10T12:42:21.001-07:00

1) Don't drive your car2) But rioting and destroying property are just fine.What a holiday!

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As the High Holy Days draw to a close, I realize that it has been a while since I've blogged about what is truly important in life: water polo.So, leaving aside the question of whether "Matt Wiener" is actually my brother, congratulations to him on his award.(Also, so long as we're talking about important stuff: go Sox.)

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Some chick, as she prefers to be called, is this month's featured employee at the San Francisco Aids Foundation. The accompanying profile is semi-accurate, poorly written, somewhat trivial and mildly embarrassing to somebody close to me. It is, in other words, a perfect excuse for a post.

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The Los Altos City Council spent September caricaturing itself, first by ensuring that First Street remains inconvenient for bicyclists and then by putting the brakes on a proposed link to the Stevens Creek Trail.Here is a sampling of quotes from the meetings, helpfully provided by the Town Crier.Councilman Ron Packard:"We want to encourage bicycling on the whole Peninsula. On the other hand, do

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I won't be posting much this week; I have a lot of people I need to apologize to.

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Our Fearless Publisher has strongly discouraged more Intrade posts from this reporter.However, Oh Snap!

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This might have been an honest mistake, but it's still really funny.On the other hand, Duffy Price, who leads the town activist group Hills 2000 and is helping Mordo’s campaign, noted that council candidate Toni Casey is listing endorsers on her materials who are, in fact, not endorsing her. One resident, Lou Antonioli, said Casey listed her husband, who has been dead 10 years.She "took full

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As BigDra recently reminded me, and as I recently for some reason mentioned during an interview with a judge, I have a blog. I suppose I should post something.It has been a busy few weeks: a certain individual visited, and I earned my first ever red card this Sunday while politely explaining to a referee why he had misapplied a well-known rule.Speaking of mistaking reasoned analysis for anger,

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Dear Readers. Just wanted to pick your collective brains on a business venture I've been thinking about for the last few weeks. What is this business you ask? Well its quite simple. After the Palin-McCain victory in November, I would be all set (website, etc) to help sane Americans establish themselves abroad. What do you think?Oh yeah, when my email and phone are jammed with emails and calls on

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Big news out of Mountain View this week: police rounding up suspects in July's double murder; NASA stepping up with money to restore Hangar One; an 18-year-old (?) girl disappearing from the Monte Carlo.By contrast, over in Los Altos, this typo is really funny.

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A while back I made an observation that the much-vilified airline industry was responsible for far fewer greenhouse gas emissions than the global beef industry, yet no one was calling for a cut in beef consumption.So now, a year and a half later, the UN is calling on people to reign in on their carne consumption.I'm just waiting for our patriotic backlash against this call and stereotyping to

BigDrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12058192471416012256noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23389608.post-56578468493791179822008-09-06T18:06:00.001-07:002008-09-09T16:46:37.162-07:00

The great nation of Swaziland recently celebrated the 40th anniversary of its independent and its bonehead King's 40th birthday. The King celebrated in style, which is nothing new. No one was celebrating the world's highest HIV rate...

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From the San Francisco Chronicle:Los Altos police have accused three people of trying to blackmail a Silicon Valley businessman by threatening to publish video of him having sex with an alleged prostitute.Poor guy.The alleged extortion ring probably had other victims as well. Police searched the home of one of the suspects and found cell phones, cameras and computers with footage of other men

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Grace Acosta is usually one of the few tolerable writers for the Town Crier, so I have been trying to give her the benefit of the doubt for this week's tired column about how much Jason Lezak pulling off one the greatest swims meant to Michael Phelps.It's hard though, given sentences like this:At a time when it seems like “whatever” can be a response to everything from “Soup or salad?” to “

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Everybody's got an idea for what to do with Hangar One, at least so long as somebody else is paying.Imagine for a second that the hangar never existed. Now imagine that somebody offers to pay the Navy $500,000 for the right to build a giant steel skeleton that is going to cost somebody -- either the public or some enterprising business -- more than $10 million to either use or demolish. Is

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Despite my recent resignation from this blog, NOE has yet relinquish my access to the site. So, I feel compelled to post, though I will resist from posting about how NOE and Koland's Labor Day Party at their new place in LA has been canceled and instead post about our favorite whipping-boy/rag the Los Altos Town Crier.A while back I posted about local scholar David Grewal's new book Network Power

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Recently retired from the Sacramento Bee, my sister apparently has nothing better to do than go on local public radio and suggest I am naive about pest control in gardens. Ironically, just days after her piece aired, I remained alone among my family members in both knowing of and heeding the brown apple moth quarantine, which, as a reminder, prohibits moving fruit out of yards in Los Altos,

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Popular things to do with a primate carcass in the state of Georgia--1. Cut off its tail, shave, bleach and dye it green, then set it on fire and leave it on the side of rural country road.2. Put the "creature" in a freezer, call it Bigfoot, then drive the frozen carcass to Palo Alto for a press conference.19532008

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Since you keep asking, the 140-foot phallic symbol next to City Hall is a communications tower for the police department, and not just a way of taunting local peaceniks for their pole on the other side of the library being only eight feet tall.One of the most interesting parts of this story is that it turns out "monopole" actually is a word.

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A few backdated posts aside, it's been, in the words of Jim Anchower, a long time since I rapped at ya.  So I won't argue with you guys if you want to call me lazy for writing about a letter to the Town Crier rather than something for which the paper was itself responsible.  But Barney Dragony's complaints about increases in water rates are too positively Los Altan for a blog purporting to be

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I've got Olympic Fever.UPDATE 7/13: And also a massive crush on Natalie Coughlin.

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And so does invading Georgia.  With the world's attention distracted by the spectacle and controversy of the Beijing Games, Russia invaded Georgia to support the breakaway province of South Ossetia. Thus far about 1500 have been killed.  Russia has constantly opposed any independence movements (and most recently opposed independence for Kosova) so as not to give any legitimacy to its own rebel

BigDrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12058192471416012256noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23389608.post-70871056831254758682008-07-31T21:55:00.000-07:002008-08-11T00:41:20.609-07:00

"The case is closed."An officer with the San Francisco Airport police taxi division proudly informed me last week that he had cited a driver, suspended him without pay for a day, sent him to taxi school, and made his company refund my money."He took advantage of you," the officer explained."I bet he won't do that again," I replied."If he does," said the officer, "he'll be terminated."So, what did

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McCain's price has risen 20% in the last two weeks. Not coincidentally, it was two weeks ago that McCain and the GOP embarked on a slathering of attacks on Obama.

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I'm all for hoisting conservative "hatemongering a-holes" (as one local newsperson described them) on their own petards. But it was still disappointing to see chickenhawks Michelle Malkin and Melanie Morgan get coverage when they came to town a month ago to dumb down our national discourse, while a heartfelt birthday celebration for native son and actual patriot Ken Ballard go ignored.I had the

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The days appear numbered for La Costena, a fixture in the Latino community for decades. Naturally, the Voice article quotes only a customer with a Jewish last name.The paper also boldly refuses to examine the factual claims it attributes to the restaurant's owners.  One would think that, of all publications, the Mountain View Voice would look in its archives to see whether the restaurant

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In more than two years at the Voice, I'd estimate I wrote around 500 articles. Perhaps 15 times did my my editors allow me to write 990 words on any particular subject. These were stories about the city's legal battle with Clear Channel, the effort to clean up Moffett Field, the police department's use of Tasers on unarmed (and often intoxicated) suspects who were doing little other than

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SANTA MONICA, CA --While driving back to work, having just secured an apartment for our esteemed publisher, I saw this.Foreclosures take place in even the best times. The jobless rate is a fluctuating number. A run on the bank is (at the very least) an unmistakable sign of a crisis in public confidence. I feel bad for the people spent their entire day waiting in line hoping they could get all

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I've been a little under the weather the last few days, so it feels like the right time for a linkdump, in the form of a list of things people are afraid of this week:The Bush Administration: The Environmental Protection Agency protecting the environment.Speaking of which: Jesus.Congress: Big campaign donors being unable to use "I was just following orders" as a defense for helping the government

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The 2003 California Recall Election offered one of the best values for shameless self-promoters in recent history. For $3,500 and 65 signatures, your name and personal statement would reach tens of millions of people as a candidate for Governor.This bar-lowering allowed people often left out of gubernatorial politics, such as brewers, satanists, pornographers, railroad car brake operators,

Edward K Janowskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12192795238576409453noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23389608.post-52465210113955461992008-07-05T16:31:00.000-07:002008-07-06T09:39:17.334-07:00

Last week's settlement in the Westwind Barn lawsuit closed an embarrassing chapter in the history of Los Altos Hills. It takes a lot to embarrass Los Altos Hills, but allegations that the ranch hands at such an iconic location endured racial slurs, lived in unventilated rooms and worked overtime without pay should be enough to do it.Interestingly, the plaintiffs alleged $500,000 in damages only

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If Mountain View has ever made a more ironically misguided decision than Tuesday's vote to hold the new train depot tenant responsible for creating new parking spaces, I can not imagine what it might have been.Personally, I can't see myself interrupting my commute for "artisan cheese," shrimp scampi and oysters, but I suppose it's better use than the train museum idea readers used to suggest to

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A gruesome double murder last week left two siblings dead in Mountain View last week, after the 911 system completely failed them. While a little boy slept in the next room, Omar Aquino and Teresa Sanchez became the victims of Mountain View's fourth and fifth homicides this year. The tragedy came only a few days after Leonardo Dizon Hilario was stabbed to death at his girlfriend's home.Also, the

Nemesis of Evilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00490899473009966189noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23389608.post-42787161149343282682008-07-02T00:18:00.000-07:002008-07-02T00:40:25.446-07:00

Remember Rickenbacker?Erik Koland does.Now that his crusade has turned the company into the subject of an investigation into a potential class-action lawsuit, I don't think Rickenbacker will be forgetting about him any time soon.(I want to assure readers that I have done some research into the Sturdevant Law Firm and have reached the conclusion that it is an actual place with real lawyers and not

Nemesis of Evilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00490899473009966189noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23389608.post-58660828578188206082008-06-29T18:33:00.000-07:002008-07-03T09:01:02.586-07:00

The Merc's special "report" on Los Altos describes in detail the way in which nothing bad ever happens here. The article begins by glorifying the asinine practice of staking claims on downtown streets in advance of the Festival of Lights Parade, while the map accompanying the story makes the two cities appear to have two country clubs and only one school.It's a different story in Mountain View,

Nemesis of Evilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00490899473009966189noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23389608.post-12389811085912331002008-06-26T11:39:00.000-07:002008-06-26T11:53:50.698-07:00

The final four teams in the UEFA Euro Cup 2008 are familiar names to students of modern history. Turkey (Armenia), Germany (Jews, Gypsies, Gays, etc.), Spain (all New World indigenous peoples) and Russia (Ukraine and their own) made it through to the semifinals from a wider field of European nations vying for this years cup.Germany dispatched Turkey late yesterday and Spain and Russia are now set

BigDrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12058192471416012256noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23389608.post-82790761030023608242008-06-26T01:21:00.000-07:002008-06-26T01:28:59.109-07:00

KQED radio's traffic reporter said yesterday that "the Bay Area is surrounded by fire."  For a split-second, I thought Armaggedon was here, albeit slightly sooner than I thought. Today, with 800 fires raging and the air quality only getting worse, I asked BigDra to finally put his world travels to use for someone other than himself and share some lessons about living in a ring of fire.His

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Seen next to each other on the table in the reception area at my office on Monday:Headline from the front page of the New York Times: Obama camp closely linked with ethanolHeadline from the front page of the San Francisco Chronicle: Oil drilling question looms as election issueEssentially, our presidential candidates are competing to see who can offer the most counter-productive solution to our

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Today's Supreme Court decision to drastically reduce ExxonMobil's fine for its 1989 Valdez oil spill in Alaska is just another in a long line of decisions by Our Nation's highest court to reduce punitive damages for large companies at the expense of the environment and Working Americans.Its also interesting to keep in mind the record profits that this company has been reaping in recent years. For

BigDrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12058192471416012256noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23389608.post-5791396232361929032008-06-25T08:28:00.000-07:002008-06-25T09:30:58.677-07:00

Last Friday, the Mercury's top story was about immigration status of the driver who killed a 12-year-old bicyclist in front of her school on the last day of class.  The Merc made a self-fulfilling prophecy about the story "renewing the debate on whether undocumented people should be allowed to apply for driver's licenses."  Lo and behold, after some interviews suggested they should be, several

Nemesis of Evilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00490899473009966189noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23389608.post-68341138818558010422008-06-23T08:02:00.000-07:002008-06-26T01:28:20.147-07:00

I've recently become a big fan of visiting modern-day colonies. My first experience with a formal modern-day colony was in New Caledonia, the most populated Non-Self Governing Territory in the world (some readers may be familiar with my work on mining impacts in New Caledonia) Recently, I had the opportunity to visit a couple other Pacific colonies. Although not formally on the United Nations

BigDrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12058192471416012256noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23389608.post-23916578990515967232008-06-17T00:12:00.000-07:002008-06-17T00:54:59.038-07:00

Taser held responsible in Salinas death

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Courtesy of the Merc.

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*Exasperated sigh*Parking structure downtown necessaryRather than buying a gift for my dad, I spent a good part of Saturday analyzing all the logical fallacies in this editorial. (Sorry Dad). However, I'm not exactly a logician, so I deleted them and will just give you the gist:It's wrong.Two days before this editorial ran, the city council told the high school administrators they needed to do

Nemesis of Evilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00490899473009966189noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23389608.post-38299474531416129742008-06-10T00:10:00.000-07:002008-06-10T00:44:36.432-07:00

Note to self: speaking at city council meetings may be more effective than wearing a paper bag over your head.The taco truck survived, for now, as Megan Satterlee and David Casas joined Ron Packard in opposing an ordinance to force mobile food vendors away from school property. Mayor Val Carpenter and Council member Lou Becker were silent on the issue.MVLA Superintendent Barry Groves presented

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I almost missed it, but this:,just happened again.Does anybody know if there is a reason the openings in storm drain grates are duckling-sized?

Nemesis of Evilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00490899473009966189noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23389608.post-39026815069745480332008-06-08T23:25:00.000-07:002008-06-16T08:38:15.957-07:00

Two weeks ago, the law firm where I am working this summer took us to Palo Alto Bowl. Shamefully, I rolled an 85 and a 90. My team averaged 107, which, while far better than my own scores, should not have been good enough for us to finish third among the 10 teams that were there.The Palo Alto Daily News -- which is not actually located in Palo Alto, contains a regular feature dedicated to

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So there's an oil spill off the coast of Buenos Aires, but you wouldn't know it by watching local news here. After being sent the BBC article by a friend, I flipped to the numerous local news channels available here. I saw plenty about the continuing farm protests and also an interesting piece on a photo of Pamela Anderson without make-up. But nothing about the oil spill...

BigDrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12058192471416012256noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23389608.post-11716550278681837202008-06-02T21:20:00.000-07:002008-06-02T21:55:48.335-07:00

Tensions are rising (with an assist to the Daily News) over a rejected proposal to discuss term limits for board members at next week's joint meeting between the Mountain View-Los Altos Union High School District board and the Los Altos City Council. Just imagine what they will say when they actually do discuss something.Next Monday's meeting will feature a long-awaited decision on the high

Nemesis of Evilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00490899473009966189noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23389608.post-42679810903922304412008-06-01T23:29:00.000-07:002008-06-01T23:39:32.431-07:00

After trying and failing to explain to a confused out-of-town guest why the news section of the Saturday's San Francisco Chronicle consisted of only eight pages, I sat down this morning to thumb through a hard copy of the Merc for the first time since I got home two weeks ago. My mom took the front and my dad took the "local," leaving me with sports. A teaser on the front page of the section

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Yesterday was Miss Prescott Day in Los Altos and Los Altos Hills.Parents and former students organized a surprise reception at LAYC to recognize the Egan Junior High language teacher's 40 years of teaching approximately 8,000 students, including all four of Los Wiener. Los Altos Mayor Val Carpenter and Los Altos Hills Vice Mayor Jean Mordo read proclamations honoring her (after which emcee Rick

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Last year, the federal government gave John Vidovich $1 million of your money.Vidovich, a Los Altos Hills developer whose Sunnyvale-based Sandridge Partners was the top recipient of the unconscionable corporate welfare in last year's farm bill, gave what appears to be his first interview on the subject with the Town Crier this week.You can almost see a little piece of Vidovich's soul dying as you

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If I didn't know better, I'd say Mexicans are boycotting the Voice. The last three articles about the Latino community have relied almost exclusively on people from outside the Latino community for information.But this is one of the few times in my life that I do, in fact, know better. The best book I ever read about journalism contained a list of what readers like, with talking heads at the very

Nemesis of Evilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00490899473009966189noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23389608.post-82434721667101841632008-05-25T11:55:00.000-07:002008-05-25T12:12:15.244-07:00

Among other newsworthy stories, you probably won't read anything in the Los Altos Town Crier about "Network Power," a book by Los Altos native and scholar David Grewal. His work focuses on globalization; the Financial Times calls it "brilliant" and it is quoted extensively in a piece in today's International Herald Tribune.Having read advance chapters of the book (an exclusive benefit for being

BigDrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12058192471416012256noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23389608.post-43254113455539477852008-05-19T23:28:00.000-07:002008-07-15T13:57:43.408-07:00

Imagine you are assigned to write a fake editorial in the voice of the Town Crier. And it has to reference the earthquake in China AND the cyclone in Burma. I bet it would look something like this.POSITIVE CHANGE AHEAD FROM LOS ALTOSEvery once in a while, the paper caricatures itself so well that the only possible explanation is that someone at the printer slipped in a mock article for their own

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1) Day workers sued the City of Los Altos as payback for the termination of a lease to which the city was not a party and not over an unconstitutional law forcing poor people to stand on the other side of El Camino.2) Enabling more students to park closer to Mountain View High School will somehow reduce traffic there.3) The South Peninsula Area Republican Coalition gets free advertising for its

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My alma mater may change its name today.Says kindergarten teacher Pam Loebner:"For the past 3 years we have had parents go to the wrong schools (both ways) substitutes go to the wrong schools (both ways) and there is concern that in an emergency situation that someone might be confused and go to the wrong school."Unlikely. We all know nothing bad ever happens in Los Altos. But just in case, I

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This is just the latest accusation in the ongoing downfall of NOE's idol.Please forgive me for overstepping the bounds of my assignments, but I don't think NOE had the courage to post this himself. Or maybe he's considering how to post about this...?

BigDrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12058192471416012256noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23389608.post-52916265084241386442008-04-24T23:28:00.000-07:002008-09-27T23:42:02.229-07:00

I don't know if you remember me, but I used to write for this blog.With finals approaching, I've been spending a lot of time studying recently (and, it turns out, inspiring the creation of other blogs). A few things I've learned:Everybody in Los Altos Hills is rich, which, as a matter of federal law, means its okay to keep poor people out. Ybarra vs. Los Altos Hills, 503 F.2d 250. (9th Cir.

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Three hundred grass fires are burning just outside the city limits of Buenos Aires. Over the past ten days a huge cloud of smoke has hung over the city further polluting the city's already dirty air.These types of fires, lit to clear fields for grazing, are not unusual this time of year. However, timing and number of fires so close to the city cannot be coincidence. Farmers, who make up some of

BigDrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12058192471416012256noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23389608.post-54193279289539763672008-04-15T14:09:00.000-07:002008-11-19T23:37:24.269-08:00

Ahh, Los Altos Parents... tirelessly striving to make sure that the term "Los Altos Parent" still conjures up exactly what you'd imagine."They [the parents] still do not understand why Justus chose a principal from a school [Oak Grove High School in south San Jose] with different demographics and lower test scores than Almond."It's nice to see that the running gag, so often exploited on this blog

Edward K Janowskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12192795238576409453noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23389608.post-17742327759612710072008-04-11T19:22:00.000-07:002008-04-11T19:31:13.180-07:00

In a rather slow news week on campus, you'd think somebody would have caught the irony in this headline.

Nemesis of Evilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00490899473009966189noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23389608.post-64223925414905791192008-04-08T01:24:00.000-07:002008-04-08T02:01:38.652-07:00

Leave it to these guys to make these guys and these guys seem reasonable in their use of the word "terrorist."Let's hope the rest of society can still recognize the difference between holding a sign that expresses your opinion and hijacking planes in order to fly them into buildings.

Nemesis of Evilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00490899473009966189noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23389608.post-23666359337507994342008-04-08T01:03:00.000-07:002008-04-08T01:43:51.801-07:00

I just got back from a Bruce Springsteen concert, which is why I don't have a better joke to make about the following Palo Alto Daily police blotter item (via photobasement). I'm not sure of the date or the details, but it seems to be making its way around the internet, and far be it from me to stand in the way. Feel free to submit your own.

Nemesis of Evilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00490899473009966189noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23389608.post-67130864871398469222008-04-07T07:53:00.000-07:002008-04-07T08:30:46.059-07:00

It's time for another NOE Reader Quiz.A headline in last week's Voice declared "Tunnel's done, time to celebrate." Before I give you the link, guess whether that headline appeared in the news section or the editorial pages....You were right.I'm as big a fan of the Stevens Creek Trail as anybody, and I understand the importance of maintaining good relationships with people at City Hall. But, just

Nemesis of Evilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00490899473009966189noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23389608.post-13714860064395783152008-04-05T12:23:00.000-07:002008-04-07T07:52:27.113-07:00

Usually, when local papers write about gangs, they generally focus on what gang activity means for white people. They include the perspective of police, teachers, non-profits and government officials, but almost never gang members themselves.This is not surprising, as most reporters generally don't have a lot of contacts who belong to the economic class that makes up gang membership. And with

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