We also ran an item about the past weekend plans for the Northern California group that wants to bring out the truth about what happened on 9/11. Their promotional literature mentioned a Toronto Hearing. We should do a Google news search for information on that unexplained aspect of the 9/11 topic. As this column is being written, we have skipped an opportunity to take a photo of their Sunday parade down Market Street in San Francisco and have chosen, instead, to do the first draft of this column.
As the overwhelming aspect of doing all that simultaneous work became more and more apparent, we considered doing an entire column asking if the overworked writers for liberal web sites were facing a situation that could be compared to the task of the reporter who was with General Custer when he was surrounded at the Little Big Horn river by attacking Indians.
(Would it be worth the effort to do some fact checking on the idea that the American soldiers only had old obsolete muzzle loader weapons and that the attackers had repeater rifles supplied by an unethical gun dealer or is that something on display in the Amalgamated Conspiracy Theory Factory's "Hall of Fame" display area?)
On Monday September 12, 2011, we knew that there was going to be another protest at the BART Civic Center station, but we decided to skip the chance to take new news photos that would probably be very similar to the images we had recorded at several other recent similar protests.
Is there a potential column topic in the possibility that Karl Rove and Rupert Murdoch are conspiring to work liberal writers to death (like the dog in "Cool Hand Luke"?) by inundating them with bullshit that needs to be refuted with extensive fact finding and careful logical analysis?
Could we do an issues oriented roundup column under with a headline reading: "Has American Democracy been scuttled by the Republicans?" It seems that Democrats must now simultaneously mount efforts to revive interest and enthusiasm for: the unions, the social security program, verifiable election results, voter registration, fair taxation rates, ending extraneous wars, providing social welfare programs for the homeless, and maintaining affordable quality education while the Republicans flash their "Just vote No!" bumper stickers and head for the golf course with campaign donors?
With all the pandemonium surrounding the P. T. Barnum approach to selecting next year's Republican Presidential nominee, shouldn't it soon be time for Barbara Bush to hold a press conference and admonish all Americans to come to their senses, get serious, and nominate her son JEB? Hypothetically wouldn't even Edward R. Morrow himself have to utter a subservient response to such a clarion call? "Yes, mom, we'll get to work on that right away." (Wasn't last weekend's terrorist alert a delightful bit of Bush era nostalgia?)
Recently we learned online that Herb Caen's typewriter is on display in the San Francisco Chronicle's newsroom. Unfortunately the public can't drop in to see it. William Randolph Hearst made an exception to his own iron clad rule for a columnist named Bob Patterson. Is it worth all the effort it would take for the World's Laziest Journalist to get a photo of Caen's Royal to use with one of his own columns?
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