Navarrette: Don't use fires to score points
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What turned out to be a life-changing week began, interestingly enough, with a lesson about misplaced priorities.
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By Phil Villarreal, The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson  Feb. 22--Build it and they will come.   And you won't want them there, because they'll try to take it away.
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I asked for advice in reducing vitriol on this blog, and a couple of readers helpfully identified a source of the problem: me. They and many others didnât like my suggestion to require commenters to use their real name. Tartuffo wrote: âAs someone who has been on the Internet since 1981, from alt.flame to the [...].
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He had some Wheaties this morning for sure. My advice... 1. Remember to have fun. 2. We're all bozos on this bus. 3. We're all barking farting chihuahuas. 4. I make shitty software and so do you. 5. It's even worse than it appears. 6. You never learn anything hanging with the same people. 7. Thank heaven for little girls. (A repeat of #6.) 8. It's later than you think. 9. It's not like anyone gets out of this alive.
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There is a chance for fireworks during the NBA&#39;s doubleheader today, but the anticipation of overly physical play in sports often leads to the opposite result.
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Contrary to the conventional wisdom, scientists have found that logging big dead trees after a wildfire and planting young ones makes future fires worse, at least for the first 10 or 20 years while the young trees create a volatile new source of fuel.
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Blowout win. Blowout loss. Terrible first half. Terrific second half.
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By Greg Elwell, The Daily Oklahoman  Feb. 20--CASHION -- Officials said drivers, not the flames, were the biggest danger to firefighters working a grass fire near Cashion on Monday morning.
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It sure sounded like an insult. A dismissive dig, at least. The sort of thing Gilbert Arenas loves to hear so he can store it away for extra motivation.
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By PHIL MULKINS Action Line  Dear Action Line:   Some fire deaths are attributed to "smoke inhalation." People breathe wood smoke all the time without harm. It makes people think it's OK to go back into burning buildings. -- R.W., Tulsa.
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This yearâs Tour de France will still be a beautiful sight. Just donât take it seriously and donât take the riders into your heart.
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It was not the best way to start off the night. With three first-half fumbles and several early scoring opportunities gone to waste, there were a lot more glamorous games going on in the area.
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There's been a mostly fantastic discussion about fair use in this neighborhood for the last few days.  It started when a photograph of Lane Hartwell's was used in a video spoof of the Billy Joel song "We Didn't Start the Fire."  The first I heard of this was in a Twitter post of hers where she said she was turning off access to her entire Flickr collection because this picture was used without permission. A series of communications with the people who did the video resulted in the video being taken down. Later Mike Arrington, who is a lawyer, wrote a piece saying she didn't have right on her side, and that the video's use of her picture was probably fair use. I found Mike's piece compelling. Others took offense. It thought it was a useful part of the discussion. I understand Ms Hartwell's point of view. I hate it when people copy a whole post of mine and paste it into theirs. But then I grab bits of images and put them on my blog and people rarely complain. The blogosphere is built on being loose about copyright and fair use.  I'm doing a deal with a content company and all these issues are coming up. We haven't been able to write a contract that covers all the things they want covered and make it possible for me to do what I need to do, and they want my product to work. It's a real mess we're in. Bloggers are supposed to be radicals when it comes to fair use and copyright, but that generalization doesn't work with many creative people. Hartwell's position in some ways is like the RIAA or MPAA, who bloggers often dismiss as clueless. How can we have it both ways? How can some defend her position yet not defend the entertainment industry? There's a lot to discuss here, and a lot of the discussion on the blogs has been informative and respectful. Not all of it, but to an unusually high degree.  So, I am interested in doing an in person "flash conference" on the subject of fair use in a few weeks. I'd say next week if it weren't Christmas. Most conferences are so boring. I want to do a conf on a hot subject when it's still hot in the blogosphere. This may be a good subject for such a quickly organized conference. What do you think of the flash conference idea for this??
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Agilists can miss the point Column â¦
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By Douglas A. Kaid, The Bradenton Herald, Fla.  Jan. 31--LAKEWOOD RANCH -- Sometimes the other team is simply better. It's a tough thing to admit for competitors who spend all season trying to convince themselves they can't be beaten if they play their best.
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JACKSONVILLE - It&#39;s not about me, Ron Zook told his players prior to the one game that could make his firing look like a mistake.
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The Chicago Fire and Real Salt Lake played to a scoreless draw on Sunday, despite several scoring opportunities by each team.