Month: November 2006

  • Hanlon’s Razor

    Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. Sometimes said as: Never assume malice when stupidity will suffice. — attributed to Robert J. Hanlon in a collection of jokes about Murphy’s Law. This is known as Hanlon’s razor.

  • Just chronicling

    This is a Chronicle-themed post via Just an Online Minute and journlism.co.uk. Peter Scheer, a lawyer, journalist and executive director of the nonprofit of California First Amendment Center suggests in a Sunday column in the San Francisco Chronicle that: “Newspapers and wire services need to figure out a way, without running afoul of antitrust laws,…

  • Almost too weird

    Engine smoke forced a two-hour delay Friday in the charter jet flight of the Marshall football team to East Carolina. No big deal, except … It happened on the game trip to Greenville where on Saturday East Carolina unveiled a plaque near the football stadium entrance honoring Marshall’s 1970 team. The 1970 team died in…