Uneasy Rhetoric

Dear Sacramento light rail riders:
You are a spoiled bunch. When RT runs four-car trains at rush hour, there is usually plenty of space. You might have to stand, but you won’t have to brush against another human. Well, you might if you’re sitting down but hey, at least you’re sitting.
But when RT [...]

Beth posted that the Sacramento Police Department has a WordPress powered blog. It will be interesting to see to what extent they use it for information versus propaganda. I found the post Beth writes about, on the Distillery and their various violations, refreshingly detailed, if a tad propagandistic.
The gist of the post was [...]

Talk like a pirate day has jumped the shark. As if it could ever be as popular as the Fonz.

This has nothing to do with Sacramento, but seeing as I blew my teenager allowance at The Beat (when it was on H Street) on many vinyl disks, including a copy of Scottish punk band the Skids’ “Scared to Dance,” I thought I’d bring this up.
It appears chart-punkers Green Day and chart-geezers U2 are getting [...]

I know that’s not the way to report a tennis score, but in this case, I’m putting the loser’s numbers first.
When Andre Agassi first hit the tennis scene, I was like a lot of others — I didn’t like him very much, I didn’t like the “all about image” attitude that commentators have mentioned quite [...]