Scooped on a Fairhaven story
Scooped on a Fairhaven story
Swearing-In Ceremony next Tuesday at 4:30 pm in our Bellingham City Council Chambers for Dan Pike as mayor and Stan Snapp as council member.
Noon
Sam Taylor has scooped me on a Fairhaven sto
Noon
Sam Taylor has scooped me on a Fairhaven sto
Swearing-In Ceremony next Tuesday at 4:30 pm in our Bellingham City Council Chambers for Dan Pike as mayor and Stan Snapp as council member.
Noon
Sam Taylor has scooped me on a Fairhaven story. My own backyard. It pains me, but fairness says I link to his post about the proposed ban on extra-tall Christmas trees in the Fairhaven Historic District.
8 am
Not a word in this morning's Herald about last night's Bellingham City Council meeting. Sam went to Lynden. This is in reference to the thread below. This skipping any reporting of important meetings is a many-years-old routine process of the Herald. Of course they have not written any articles telling their readers of this practice and so it goes largely unknown in the community. Let's hope the Thursday edition of the Whatcom Independent weekly paper gives us some report on last night. The council was scheduled to discuss and vote on the 2008 budget. Guess we can watch the council on btv10 if we really want to know what happened. Should only take two or three hours. Oh, and no, this is not a criticism of Sam. He is one reporter and can be in only one place. The Herald editors and publisher are responsible for this lack of coverage.
12:15 am
Turncoat. Hmm. Sam Taylor says I can be "...your friend one minute on the blog and turncoat seconds later,...". Wow. Posted Monday noon on his Herald blog. So, here is some explanation from my perspective. I'm a bit sensitive to that accusation. The subject is loyalty or some such. I think Sam has something mixed up.
We humans tend to feel loyal to our family, clan, tribe, etc. This is from ancient times when this was needed for survival. These loyalty feelings are hard-wired into us but now do us harm when it comes to collective discussion or seeking the facts and the truth. Groups - from police to high school teams - like to have their personal bonds of group loyalty. No one speaks ill or squeals on anyone in the group to outsiders. Even when group members do wrong, the group protects them. The thin blue line is an example.
Port of Bellingham officials have described themselves as a 'wolf pack'. They may argue fiercely with each other but present a united front to the hostile public citizens. Once in the group you cannot escape or the others will turn on you. A turncoat is one who has supposedly joined a group and then does some public action that hurts the group.
Group loyalty also demands members attack some other group. Democrats must find fault with any Republican. But a liberal will not be criticized by other liberals so long as they do not expose any others to criticism or public question. Thus Dan McShane could act secretly for his self-promoting county park on Lake Whatcom with only praise from enviro liberals while they would have screamed foul if a conservative official had acted in the same secret way.
Young Sam was no doubt brought up on these clan practices even though he possibly hardly recognizes all the ways his education and family instilled these concepts in him. How can I say that? Because that is how all of us are brought up in America. All I've done is reject this clan stuff as far as political writing is concerned.
Turncoat? Well, I never swore allegiance to Sam or the Herald. So I could not be a turncoat. I thought the Herald did a lousy job ahead of Monday night's city council meeting and I so wrote. Monday's Herald had not a word of the meeting. Sorry, Sam. I calls them as I sees them. Or do the best I can. And Sam, you should be more careful with the name calling. You blog discourages it.
By the way - just below is the post where I criticized the Herald. The post that was cause of the turncoat label. Note there is no mention of Sam. Maybe Sam is too sensitive.
Noon
Sam Taylor has scooped me on a Fairhaven story. My own backyard. It pains me, but fairness says I link to his post about the proposed ban on extra-tall Christmas trees in the Fairhaven Historic District.
8 am
Not a word in this morning's Herald about last night's Bellingham City Council meeting. Sam went to Lynden. This is in reference to the thread below. This skipping any reporting of important meetings is a many-years-old routine process of the Herald. Of course they have not written any articles telling their readers of this practice and so it goes largely unknown in the community. Let's hope the Thursday edition of the Whatcom Independent weekly paper gives us some report on last night. The council was scheduled to discuss and vote on the 2008 budget. Guess we can watch the council on btv10 if we really want to know what happened. Should only take two or three hours. Oh, and no, this is not a criticism of Sam. He is one reporter and can be in only one place. The Herald editors and publisher are responsible for this lack of coverage.
12:15 am
Turncoat. Hmm. Sam Taylor says I can be "...your friend one minute on the blog and turncoat seconds later,...". Wow. Posted Monday noon on his Herald blog. So, here is some explanation from my perspective. I'm a bit sensitive to that accusation. The subject is loyalty or some such. I think Sam has something mixed up.
We humans tend to feel loyal to our family, clan, tribe, etc. This is from ancient times when this was needed for survival. These loyalty feelings are hard-wired into us but now do us harm when it comes to collective discussion or seeking the facts and the truth. Groups - from police to high school teams - like to have their personal bonds of group loyalty. No one speaks ill or squeals on anyone in the group to outsiders. Even when group members do wrong, the group protects them. The thin blue line is an example.
Port of Bellingham officials have described themselves as a 'wolf pack'. They may argue fiercely with each other but present a united front to the hostile public citizens. Once in the group you cannot escape or the others will turn on you. A turncoat is one who has supposedly joined a group and then does some public action that hurts the group.
Group loyalty also demands members attack some other group. Democrats must find fault with any Republican. But a liberal will not be criticized by other liberals so long as they do not expose any others to criticism or public question. Thus Dan McShane could act secretly for his self-promoting county park on Lake Whatcom with only praise from enviro liberals while they would have screamed foul if a conservative official had acted in the same secret way.
Young Sam was no doubt brought up on these clan practices even though he possibly hardly recognizes all the ways his education and family instilled these concepts in him. How can I say that? Because that is how all of us are brought up in America. All I've done is reject this clan stuff as far as political writing is concerned.
Turncoat? Well, I never swore allegiance to Sam or the Herald. So I could not be a turncoat. I thought the Herald did a lousy job ahead of Monday night's city council meeting and I so wrote. Monday's Herald had not a word of the meeting. Sorry, Sam. I calls them as I sees them. Or do the best I can. And Sam, you should be more careful with the name calling. You blog discourages it.
By the way - just below is the post where I criticized the Herald. The post that was cause of the turncoat label. Note there is no mention of Sam. Maybe Sam is too sensitive.
