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Religious zealots need to chill, part I: Is it just me, or did the story about the Arizona pair who got jail time for beating up a SLO man leave you puzzled?
First off, I don’t know how the victim, Philip Hauser, goes from just walking home from a party at 4 a.m. to engaging a [...]

Here’s another observation on the response to the Haiti earthquake.
The L.A. Times had a story on Tuesday pondering the supposed conflict of interest that faces the many medical correspondents working for TV networks in Haiti.
The assumption of course, in the ivory towers of Journalism, is that reporters should be singularly focused newsgatherers, ideally without any [...]

The last week has been filled with hordes of disturbing images coming out of Haiti following Tuesday’s magnitude-7.0 quake.
Most of them, you probably never saw.
The piles of bodies outside the morgue, limbs and torsos tangled together like discarded mannequins.
Shots of the dead still trapped in collapsed buildings, visible but inaccessible.
And the many images of appendages, [...]