Mike Hall. He's still mailing it in...only now he's laughably absurd. His latest column begins, "I know from your comments...." In truth, his columns are so bland they never generate any comments. This column in particular, dredges up a name from the past, former T C-J writer, Leslie Guild, who was, in my humble opinion, a disaster as a reporter. She tended to engage in rumor-mongering, always from "anonymous" sources. At first, I complained at the unfairness of me having to respond on the record to some anonymously-sourced rumor. When, as a matter of fairness, I stopped responding, she wrote the story anyway, with the mere fact it was seen in writing, giving it more credibility than it deserved.Honduras. With each passing day, doesn't it seem more and more likely that the Obama administration picked the wrong horse to support in Honduras? Some commentators have raised the suggestion of corruption.
Topeka Police Department. Judge Nancy Parrish dismissed the criminal charges pending against off-duty police officer Jason Judd. The charges were filed 1 1/2 years ago by a desperate District Attorney, trying to score some points and get himself re-elected, rather than seeing that justice was done. In this sense, there is a similarity between his actions and President Obama's statement that the Cambridge Massachusetts Police Officer "acted stupidly" in arresting Obama's friend, Skip Gates, for disorderly conduct, in his own home. In both cases, the powerful badly misjudged public sentiment that detests rude behavior, whether it is the Llamas brothers playing their music too loud at 2 in the morning or a college professor seeing racism where there is none. That DA Hecht and President Obama supported people who had behaved rudely caused a great many citizens to choose sides, and to come down on the side of public civility.
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