Figuring out the Facebooks

It's not very often that I can get meta about the inner workings of this blog I've got regarding subjects beyond the simple milestones like post numbers or followers. But today I wanted to do just that because of a somewhat more interesting development affecting the blog completely beyond my control. According to information put …

Saying Sayonara to 2016

As the holiday season and the year 2016 come to a close (very conveniently at the same time in this case), I feel like I can't help but take a moment to reflect on some things.  As I mentioned in my last post about Carrie Fisher's passing, the general attitude seems to be that 2016 …

November 9, 2016 Article Published

So this actually was not so much an article as it was a collection of briefs, but I'm pretty proud of the final product all the same. Yesterday was a historic election, undoubtedly.  The end result wasn't necessarily what I hoped it would be, which is an especially painful point considering it was my first …

Road to Decision 2016

The 2016 election is the first national election I've had the chance to vote for in my lifetime.While the Presidential race itself has admittedly been... Less than appealing, it hasn't changed my conviction to go out and do my civic duty for the first time.   With a lot of pretty significant proposition on the …

October 19, 2016 Article Published

When this article was published yesterday, I was a little bit distracted by other things to be able to talk about it.  Half of the newsroom is currently off in Washington DC for a conference, and my co-editor has been a bit under the weather as of late, so the rest of us who were …

A very productive day indeed

Since this is something of a personal blog, I figure I can get a bit personal with the whole silly milestone kind of stuff. California's presidential primary for the 2016 election is today, and it's the first primary I'm old enough to vote in.  So, it's pretty exciting!  Especially considering just how much of a …

Why you should watch Merchants of Doubt

For my Communications 233 class, Mass Communication in Modern Society, one of the things we were meant to learn about in the course is media literacy.  I say were because today is the day of our final exam so the course is technically over but... I'm not really here to get into semantics.  Media literacy was …