Category: default || By jt3y

Alert Reader Glenn writes:

The city seems to be going either classy, crazy or reverting to Roman rule. While searching for info I came across the (page for Renzie Park), and it appears it was all written in Latin.

I thought they stopped teaching Latin in the high school around 1971 when I graduated but it appears it is now making a comeback:

Well, Glenn, obviously you missed Mayor Jim Brewster's recent appearance before city council (henceforth renamed the Senate) in a toga. I thought the laurel wreath on his head was quite handsome.

Also, in the interest of saving fuel, the police are replacing their Chevy Impalas with horse-drawn chariots. The upside is the horses will also be able to keep the grass trimmed in War Memorial Park, but the downside will be the new road hazards on Market Street.

Seriously, as someone who works on web pages for a living, I know exactly how this happened ... someone needed placeholder text when they designed the website, and forgot to remove it.

And it's not like your Almanac editor never make makes an a misteak misstake mistake.

Now that Glenn has pointed this out, I'm sure the web elves at city hall will fix this goof, and I'll say mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa on their behalf, because I've "been there, done that," many, many times.

I just hope no one is fed to the lions as punishment.

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That reminds me: Senator ... er, I mean, city councilman ... Paul Shelly Jr. checked in recently at the Almanac, and it turns out he has a blog! There's lots of great discussion there of events in the news, and analysis of current issues before city officials. If you're a city resident, or live in one of its suburbs, check it out.

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Finally: It has been said many times, many ways, but Ann Coulter is truly a despicable human being. Her latest interview, with the religious website Beliefnet.com, just confirms that. How dare she judge other Christians on the quality of their faith? I wouldn't ask Ann Coulter for assistance to cross the street, let alone for moral guidance.

I know some people (Andrew Sullivan, for instance) claim that Coulter's far-right, neofascist commentaries are just an act.

That would make them all the more disgusting, as far as I'm concerned --- not only would she be a hatemonger, she'd be a liar and a fraud. (There are serious accusations, by the way, that her most recent book was plagiarized.)

If the people running the Ann Coulter column are simply trying to fill space, there are better ways. For instance, the people who supplied that "lorem ipsum" text on the Renzie Park webpage could probably help.

"Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit" is no less comprehensible to me than what Ann Coulter typically turns out.

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UPDATE: Correction, Not Perfection: This Almanac erroneously stated that the Ann Coulter column was still running in the Daily News.

An Alert Reader of both the Almanac and the News tells your editor that Ms. Ann Thrope ... er, I mean Ms. Ann Coulter ... no longer appears in the newspaper, and hasn't for some time.

Er ... I was just testing the readers to make sure they pay attention. That's it! (And if you believe that, I'll tell you another one.)

See? I told you we make mistakes. I apologize for the error.