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This blogger felt it necessary to add a post regarding the issue of being blocked from posting at SFGate.com and, according to the emails and exchanges received, due to the Rick Perry blog posts, and the new SFGate.com Executive Director Alana Nguyen’s fear that the take presented, and the way it was presented might “get … Read more
Here’s the video: Everyone is talking about Rick Perry messing up last night at the debate and looking like he was trying to get Ron Paul to help him think of the third federal department that he wanted to eliminate. The time when people need to be most prepared is during these debates, and it … Read more
This blogger watched the Tom Bradley Penn State Press Conference today with very much interest. After all, Coach Bradley, Penn State Football’s defense coach (he’s not listed as “defensive coordinator”) was selected to replace the fired legendary coach Joe Paterno. Here’s some of the press conference: In the full talk, Bradley spent a lot of … Read more
In a turn of events that, if it wasn’t real, would look like the screenplay for a movie, four armed men jumped out of a vehicle in Santa Ines, Venezuela, and grabbed Wilson Ramos – then abandoned the vehicle. But why? Wilson Ramos is a catcher with the Washington Nationals. The 24 year old played … Read more
UPDATE: Oakland Mayor Quan Recall Details Leaked To Zennie62 Apparently giving a response to efforts to recall embattled Oakland Mayor Jean Quan after her bungling of the Occupy Oakland effort, her husband Floyd Quan wrote an email that has many Oakland insiders up in arms. The basic read of has Mr. Quan calling for the … Read more
UPDATE: Joe Paterno Dies – A Tribute This is a shocking development. Joe Paterno. JoePa. The Penn State Football heac coach, who, since 1966, has won more college football games than anyone else, was fired Wednesday. The decision came from the Penn State Board of Trustees to release Paterno, and University President Graham Spanier from … Read more
NFL Sunday saw great quarterback performances. Consider that Tim Tebow and the Denver Broncos almost pulled out a miracle win against the San Diego Chargers, while Alex Smith and the San Francisco 49ers smashed the Tampa Bay Buccaneers 48 to 3 and Aaron Rodgers and his Green Bay Packers outcoached The Atlanta Falcons. What’s not … Read more
As we approach Monday’s Dancing With The Stars, the online buzz is about Ricki Lake getting into shape at 43-years old. But the online and offline searches tilt in US Women’s Soccer Star Hope Solo’s favor. Solo’s already high level of online attention was elevated by her ESPN The Magazine nude photo release last Friday, … Read more
The Oakland Raiders 25 to 20 win over the Houston Texans at Reliant Stadium in Houston today was a big win for Raiders Owner Al Davis, in the wake of his passing on Saturday morning at the age of 82. The Raiders won in a fashion that Mr. Davis is proud of: with timely defensive … Read more
A number of sources are reporting news of federal and law enforcement officials’ concern that the terrorist organization al Qaeda, the same one responsible for the 9-11 attack on The World Trade Center, may have slipped terrorists in under U.S. Security screening before the 10th anniversary of the attacks. But the officials also note there’s … Read more
Venture Beat captured the following screenshot of NBC’s Twitter page which was hacked earlier: The tweets kept insisting that Ground Zero had been attacked and that this was no joke. Well, it was a joke – and it wasn’t a funny joke at all. There have been many speculations about another terrorist attack on the … Read more
That the San Francisco TransBay Terminal Area Plan has been released, let alone that the new San Francisco TransBay Terminal is under construction (and forget for the moment Wednesday’s press conference), is just plain remarkable. As the video from the press conference will show, this is a huge project, and a much needed one. When … Read more
The Zennie62 Mobile App Barcode, a photo by zennie62 on Flickr. After some planning and tinkering by this blogger the Zennie62 Mobile App is ready, and thanks to the use of Widgebox’s technology online. It contains not only all Zennie62 blog posts, but Twitter tweets, and YouTube video posts. But the best news of all … Read more
The Internet’s buzzing with talk about Contagion, Steven Soderburgh’s new thriller “about a deadly pandemic” to quote a number of marketing and news sources, is expected to top The Help at the box office this weekend. While that’s not necessarily wishful thinking from those observers who wrote such views, I’ve seen The Help, and just … Read more
PGA Championship Golf – Tiger Woods and Steve Williams Is The Draw – The PGA Championship will start tomorrow, Thursday, August 11th, at the Atlanta Athletic Club. You’d think the PGA Championship buzz is about the current winners, but no – it’s about Tiger Woods, still The World’s Greatest Golfer, and his now ex-caddie, Steve … Read more
Justin Bieber wants to play matchmaker for Kendall Jenner. This is just adorable. Bieber’s tweet says it all: Kendall Jenner has been in the tabloids lately for reasons a bit more tame than that of her Kardashian siblings – Jenner has been at the Teen Choice Awards with younger sister Kylie Jenner. Also it has … Read more
That’s the headline: “BART’s Busy Week, And It’s Wednesday! (Mass Transit News)” Yep. It’s not just the asbestos removal program that’s transformed San Francisco’s BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit System) Montgomery St. Station into something out of the Andromeda Strain, it’s last night’s shut down that, thank God, this blogger just missed, having made a … Read more
Mark it here: Scott Walker will be out at Wisconsin’s Governor in 2012. The Tea Party Movement will not survive 2012. While some democrats and left-leaning blogs like The Huffington Post, acted as if Dems lost, actually Democrats won, taking two incumbent Republicans out of six down, and leaving the Wisconsin Senate with a one … Read more
In the wake of the YouTube EHarmony Video Scandal, we have the Google Les Paul Electric Guitar Doodle. This was a work of genius to say the least. The idea was to honor the creation of the electric guitar by none other than Les Paul, who passed on in 2009. The folks at the Google … Read more
A video surfaced on the page of my Facebook news feed, and placed their by my friend Jen Friel of the blog Talk Nerdy To Me Lover. Called EHarmony Video Bio, Ms. Friel placed it there because she had watched it 15 times in total fascination with what I will call the performance of it’s … Read more
X POSTED AT THE FUTURE OF JOURNALISM This is an editorial I wrote for Ed Rice’s Editorial and Column Writing Class. I got an A on it – so I thought it was worth posting. P.S. I’ll have more posts in two weeks once school is done. Written By Nikky Raney Abstinence only education is … Read more
Kelly Clarkson will be returning to American Idol to perform a song with country singer Jason Aldean, TV GUIDE reports. Rihanna will also be there performing this Thursday along with the final 8 contestants on Idol. Clarkson was the first winner and now she is 28-years-old and all can still remember watching her sing “A … Read more
