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Volume 4, Number 6 for the week of Sunday, February 5, 2006
Current Events
  • Paying Attention: Thirteen Ways of Looking at the News (with apologies to Wallace Stevens)
  • On Consistency: Sometimes truculent rigidity masquerading as intellectual seriousness just gets you in trouble...
  • Light Fog: Making Much of Nothing (the State of the Union Speech)
  • Getting Serious: The War of the Shirts (and other matters)
  • Cartoon Wars: The Sacred and the Profane
Bob Patterson
  • WLJ Weekly: from the desk of the World's Laziest Journalist - Those Who Forget The Past … Might Overlook A Great Topic For Their Next Column
  • Book Wrangler: The Easiest Part Of Selling What You Write, Is Writing It!
Southern California Photography
Quotes of the week of February 5, 2006 - "Let's think this through…"
 
Links and Recommendations: Three New Photo Albums
 
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Volume 4, Number 5 for the week of Sunday, January 29, 2006
Current Events
  • Low Points: They Call It Stormy Monday, But Tuesday's Just The Same
  • Controversy: Maybe honesty isn't actually the best policy...
  • Perspectives: Those Who Tell Us What It All Really Means
  • Voting: People Deciding What They're Not Supposed to Decide
  • Friday Follies: A Media Tradition
  • Political Theory: Power Doesn't Corrupt, It Forces Pragmatic Dreariness
The International Desk
Bob Patterson
  • WLJ Weekly: from the desk of the World's Laziest Journalist - Are Judas Goats Leading The US Toward A Third Term For Dubya?
  • Book Wrangler: "How many fingers, Winston?"
Southern California Photography

Quotes for the week of January 29, 2006 – Lighten Up

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Volume 4, Number 4 for the week of Sunday, January 22, 2006 

Current Events

  • King Day: 'His voice was like a furnace of optimism, trying to triumph over despair.'
  • Ben's Day: Things Have Changed
  • Perspective: Perhaps When You Are In The United States It Is Difficult To Have A Notion Of What Really Is Going On There
  • Dangerous Ideas: News From Abroad (Thursday's Osama Bin Laden Surprise, and More)
  • Constitutional Law: The Professionals' Views
  • Safe and Convenient: The Price of Security and Other Things

The International Desk

Bob Patterson  

  • WLJ Weekly: from the desk of the World's Laziest Journalist " …  rent a very fast car with no top and … "
  • Book Wrangler: Alligators In El Paso And Other Texas Subjects

Southern California Photography

Quotes for the week of January 22, 1006 - The Law
 
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Volume 4, Number 3 for the week of Sunday, January 15, 2006
Current Events
Book Notes
  • Books: The Velocity of Everydayness

The International Desk

  • Our Man in Paris: The Annual Visit To The Old Iron Lady On The Champ De Mars (Nutella Uber Alles)

Bob Patterson

  • WLJ Weekly: from the desk of the World's Laziest Journalist - Picking The "What?" Out Of The Salad?
Southern California Photography 
Quotes for the week of January 15, 2006 – "Just the facts, ma'am..."
 
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Volume 4, Number 2 for the week of Sunday, January 8, 2006
Current Events
History and Its Uses
The International Desk
Bob Patterson
  • WLJ Weekly: from the desk of the World's Laziest Journalist - Letting Democracy Die By Asphyxiation
  • Book Wrangler: "Read All About It!" - While You Still Can
Southern California Photography
Quotes for the week of January 8, 2006 – Is That True? 
 
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Volume 4, Number 1 for the week of Sunday, January 1, 2006
Current Events
The Unusual
The International Desk
Bob Patterson
  • WLJ Weekly: from the desk of the World's Laziest Journalist - "This is working out quite well for them."
  • Book Wrangler: What Effect Will 2005 Have on Literature?
Guest Photography
  • Snow: New Years Eve in the Catskills
Southern California Photography
  • Backstage: Building the Floats for the Tournament of Roses Parade
  • Surf: Christmas Day in Encinitas 
Quotes for the week of January 1, 2006 – We Have a New Year
Links and RecommendationsNew Photo Album
 
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Volume 3, Number 52 for the week of Sunday, December 25, 2005
Current Events
The International Desk
Bob Patterson
  • WLJ Weekly: from the desk of the World's Laziest Journalist - Surf's Up! Santa's Coming!
  • Book Wrangler: On The Road To Illiteracy In The USA?
Guest Photography
  • Georgia: Preparing for Santa in Georgia
  • New York: The Palm Court at the Winter Garden

Southern California Photography

Quotes for the week of December 25, 2005 - Christmas and More
Links and Recommendations: A Beach Christmas Album
 
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Volume 3, Number 51 for the week of Sunday, December 18, 2005
Current Events
Other Matters
The International Desk
Bob Patterson 
  • WLJ Weekly: from the desk of the World's Laziest Journalist - Fact Finding Isn't As Easy As It Seems
  • Book Wrangler: You're Never Too Young (Or Too Old) To Start A Writing Career
Southern California Photography 

Quotes for the week of December 18, 2005 – On Politicians

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Volume 3, Number 50 for the week of Sunday, December 11, 2005
Current Events
Business Notes
The International Desk
Bob Patterson
  • WLJ Weekly: from the desk of the World's Laziest Journalist - Is Bush Playing "Three Card Monte" with the Issues?
  • Book Wrangler: Curmudgeons Prepare for the Bill O'Reilly Holiday
Southern California Photography

Quotes for the week of December 11, 2005 – Russell Mania

 
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Volume 3, Number 49 for the week of Sunday, December 4, 2005
Current Events
The International Desk 
Bob Patterson
  • WLJ Weekly: from the desk of the World's Laziest Journalist - Was "The Blond Ghost" in Dealey Plaza?
  • Book Wrangler: What Is A Fact Checker Supposed To Do With A Parable? 
Guest Photography
  • Noël: Oh to be Rich and in Paris at Christmas
Southern California Photography 
Quotes for the week of December 4, 2005 – On Language and Thought
Links and Recommendations: New Photo Album – On Location Again
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Volume 3, Number 48 for the week of Sunday, November 27, 2005
Current Events

Religion

The International Desk
Bob Patterson 
  • WLJ Weekly: from the Desk of the World's Laziest Journalist - Is Dubya Heading for the Existentialist Hall of Fame?
  • Book Wrangler: Writing Suspense and Horror Fiction
Guest Photography 
  • Paris Winter: Sunday in the City of Light
  • Markers: Signs of Victory (one sign from Casablanca)
Hollywood Photography 
Quotes for the week of November 27, 2005 – Who Do You Trust?
Links and Recommendations: New Photo Album – As Seen in Many Major Films
 
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Volume 3, Number 47 for the week of Sunday, November 20, 2005
Current Events
The International Desk
Bob Patterson
  • WLJ Weekly: from the Desk of the World's Laziest Journalist - No One Died When the Dog Ate My Homework
  • Book Wrangler: Who Was Canada's Most Famous Outlaw?
Guest Photography
Local Photography 
Quotes for the week of November 20, 2005 – Anger and Resolution
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Volume 3, Number 46 - for the week of Sunday, November 13, 2005

Current Events

  • Anticipation: The National Conversation Panned Out as Predicted
  • Oddities: What couldn't be so is so…
  • Entropy: Trying to Hold It all Together and Facing Facts
  • Too Much News: Lots of Things Blow Up in the Middle of the Week
  • Veterans Day: The World Gone Mad, or at Least Angry
The International Desk
Bob Patterson
  • WLJ Weekly: from the desk of the World's Laziest Journalist - "What we have here is…"
  • Book Wrangler: Venice, Frogs, and Racing Ferraris
Guest Photography 
Local Photography 
Quotes for the week of November 13, 2005 – Government and Reality
Links and Recommendations: New Photo Album
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Volume 3, Number 44 - for the week of Sunday, November 6, 2005

Chasing the Zeitgeist  

Troubles Elsewhere 

Bob Patterson 

  • WLJ Weekly: from the desk of the World's Laziest Journalist - A War That Was Started For No Reason Can't Have An Ending
  • Book Wrangler: Playing the Name Game with Authors

Guest Photography 

Local Photography

  • Sculpture: Gentle Joking with the Rich - Otterness in Beverly Hills
  • Botanicals: November Blooms

Quotes for the week of November 6, 2005 – Return to Cynics Corner

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Volume 3, Number 44 - for the week of Sunday, October 30, 2005
Current Events
The International Desk
Bob Patterson
  • WLJ Weekly: from the desk of the World's Laziest Journalist - "Week From Hell" Precipitates a Cliché Fest
  • Book Wrangler: The War with the Blank Page
Guest Photography
Local Photography

Quotes for the week of October 30, 2005 – The Scooter Conspiracy

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Volume 3, Number 43 - for the week of Sunday, October 23, 2005
Current Events
The International Desk
Features
Bob Patterson
  • WLJ Weekly: from the desk of the World's Laziest Journalist - A Journalist's Guide to Asking The Most Intelligent, Perceptive, and Insightful Questions
  • Book Wrangler: Judging Books by Their Titles
Photography 

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Volume 3, Number 42 - for the week of Sunday, October 16, 2005
Current Events
The International Desk
Features 
Bob Patterson 
  • WLJ Weekly: from the desk of the World's Laziest Journalist - " …or run naked through the streets, screaming all the way…"
  • Book Wrangler: "Ready anytime you are, CB!"
Guest Photography - Europe
Guest Photography - North America 
Local Photography

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Volume 3, Number 41 - for the week of Sunday, October 9, 2005
The Week in Review
The International Desk
Features
Bob Patterson
  • WLJ Weekly: from the desk of the World's Laziest Journalist - Extra! Extra! Read all about it!
  • Book Wrangler: Nihilism Means "Nothing" To Me
Guest Photography
Local Photography 

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Volume 3, Number 40 - for the week of Sunday, October 2, 2005

Current Events

The International Desk

Bob Patterson

  • WLJ Weekly: from the desk of the World's Laziest Journalist - "There you go again, thinking logically..."
  • Book Wrangler: The Formula One Sunday Formula

Our Eye on Paris

Local Photography 

Of Interest

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Volume 3, Number 39 - for the week of Sunday, September 25, 2005

Current Events

The International Desk

Features

  • Follow Up: The Other Great Debate (about time itself)
  • Quotes for the week of September 25, 2005 – Power

Bob Patterson

  • WLJ Weekly: from the desk of the World's Laziest Journalist - Is it "The Eternal Recurrence" with a new war and different dates?
  • Book Wrangler: Is censorship flourishing in a country that believes in "Freedom of Speech?"

Dialogs of the Dead

Local Photography 

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Volume 3, Number 38 - for the week of Sunday, September 18, 2005

Current Events

The Foreign Desk 

Bob Patterson 

  • WLJ Weekly: from the desk of the World's Laziest Journalist - On the Road to Becoming the Pundits' Pundit
  • Book Wrangler: On the Road to Becoming a Prodigy in Cinematography

Guest Photography 

Local Photography 

The Usual

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Volume 3, Number 37 - for the week of Sunday, September 11, 2005

Current Events

Late Wire Items:

Features

Bob Patterson 

  • WLJ Weekly: from the desk of the World's Laziest Journalist - Does a niggardly response mean the Bush team is racist?
  • Book Wrangler: Being a Rebel for Fun and Profit

Guest Photography 

Local Photography 

Quotes for the week of September 11, 2005 - Competence and Responsibility and all that

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Volume 3, Number 36 - for the week of Sunday, September 4, 2005

Current Events

Features

Bob Patterson 

  • WLJ Weekly: from the desk of the World's Laziest Journalist -Between A Rock and a Hard Place
  • Book Wrangler: Study Hard, Make Us Proud, Get A Solid Script

Guest Photography

Local Photography

Quotes for the week of August 28, 2005 – Tangentially Related to Events In New Orleans

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Volume 3, Number 35 - for the week of Sunday, August 28, 2005

Current Events

  • Last Weekend: As Expected, Nothing Happened - or Things Got Worse
  • Changing Sides: "When the facts change, I change my mind - what do you do, sir?"
  • Flypaper: Some Conceptual and Practical and Moral Issues
  • Midweek Heat: Some thoughts on 'Disagreeing Sensibly'
  • Stalemate: No Agreement in Iraq, Dissatisfaction on the Home Front, and No One Doing Much
  • At Last Check: Congratulations, It's a Theocracy!
  • Weariness: A Change in the Weather

Features

Bob Patterson 

  • WLJ Weekly: from the desk of the World's Laziest Journalist - The Oxbow Incident in Iraq?
  • Book Wrangler: Kreigschmerz? Try "on the road" literature for escapism!

Guest Photography

Local Photography

Quotes for the week of August 28, 2005 – On Photography

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Volume 3, Number 34 - for the week of Sunday, August 21, 2005

Current Events

Echoes of Vietnam

Features

Bob Patterson

  • WLJ Weekly: from the Desk of the World's Laziest Journalist - Reality TV as Dadaist Entertainment
  • Book Wrangler: Take off your glasses, Joe! - or, The Saga of The Fighter Pilot versus the Hausfrau

Guest Photography

Local Photography

The Usual 

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Volume 3, Number 33 - for the week of Sunday, August 14, 2005

Current Events

The Culture

  • Religion: Responding to the Theocrats (Rick Brown)
  • Trends: What Belief Buys You
  • Changes: Stones Attempting Significance

The Foreign Desk

Bob Patterson 

  • WLJ Weekly: from the desk of the World's Laziest Journalist - The Return of "The Point of No Return"
  • Book Wrangler: Who wants to leave "the land of silk and money?"

Guest Photography 

Hollywood Photography

  • Wildfire: Watching the Hollywood Hills Burn

The Usual 

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Volume 3, Number 32 - for the week of Sunday, August 7, 2005

Current Events

Features

Bob Patterson

Our Eye on Paris

Local Photography

The Usual 

  • Quotes for the week of August 7, 2005 – On Flying
  • Links and Recommendations: A New Photo Album, A Ride in the Goodyear Blimp (50 photos) 

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Volume 3, Number 31 - for the week of Sunday, July 31, 2005

Current Events

Features

Bob Patterson 

  • WLJ Weekly: from the desk of the World's Laziest Journalist - Things done capriciously for no apparent reason are fun!
  • Book Wrangler: In the Bookstores During the Summer of 2005 

Guest Photography

Local Photography

The Usual 

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Volume 3, Number 30 - for the week of Sunday, July 24, 2005

Current Events

  • News Notes: Non-Stories
  • London Again: The Second-String Executes Badly
  • SCOTUS: Let the fun begin! ('Here come da judge, here come da judge!')
  • Rush to Judge: Reactions to the US Issues from Our Man in Paris
  • Enough: The Week Ends in Turmoil

Features

Bob Patterson 

  • WLJ Weekly: from the desk of the World's Laziest Journalist - CaféPress to the columnist's rescue?  Becoming a millionaire the existentialist way?
  • Book Wrangler: Columnist = Good and Blogger = Not So Good?
  • On The Scene: Academy Salute To Don Siegel

Local Photography – Amazing Public Events 

Paris Photography 

The Usual 

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Volume 3, Number 29 - for the week of Sunday, July 17, 2005

Current Events

Features

Bob Patterson

  • WLJ Weekly: from the desk of the World's Laziest Journalist - A Face in the Crowd
  • Book Wrangler: A Birthday Party Spawns a Column About Freedom of the Press

Photography 

  • Left Bank Lens: Quelles choses secrètes on apprendrait-il si on devaient ouvrir ces portes à Paris ?
  • Old Hollywood: Here, water cascades from the mouths of lions into multiple pools and waterways….
  • Hollywood Doors: The Private and the Public

The Usual 

  • Quotes for the week of July 17, 2005 – The Press and Politics

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Volume 3, Number 28 - for the week of Sunday, July 10, 2005

Current Events

Features

Bob Patterson 

  • WLJ Weekly: from the desk of the World's Laziest Journalist - What Democrats Could Learn From a Rape Prevention Program
  • Book Wrangler: Bangers and Mash Trump Truffles

Photography 

Held Over and Reformatted 

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Volume 3, Number 27 - for the week of Sunday, July 3, 2005

Current Events

The Speech to Explain Everything

Just in from Paris 

Bob Patterson 

  • WLJ Weekly: from the desk of the World's Laziest Journalist - Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride
  • Book Wrangler: New at the Local Library

Features

Photography 

  • Local Shots: The Expected, and the Unexpected in July (from flags to dissolute pigeons to classic architecture to surreal numbers)

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Volume 3, Number 26 - for the week of Sunday, June 26, 2005

Current Events

  • Spin City: Temporarily Moved from DC to Manhattan
  • Polling Notes: Effective Response to Disappointing Numbers
  • Guest Column: Rick Brown on News That Doesn't Fit the Narrative
  • Five Curiosities: Much is happening, and keeping on top of things is hard…
  • Follow-Up: Last week's topics bleed into this week, so to speak…

Features

  • Hollywood Notes: The Other Celebrities
  • Assessment: The man who thought he was being chased by a lobster through the nightmare streets full of loud music...
  • Dead Guys: Another Birthday Last Week

On the scene…

Bob Patterson 

  • WLJ Weekly: from the desk of the World's Laziest Journalist - Cold Pizza and Warm Beer for Breakfast
  • Book Wrangler: Doughnuts and links bond the Southern California literary scene…

Guest Photography

Local Photography

The Usual

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Volume 3, Number 25 - for the week of Sunday, June 19, 2005

Current Events

  • Why Thursday?: After all this time it's now time to talk about the war?
  • Case Closed: Dead, Autopsy, Enough Said
  • Race: "Never apologize, son. It's a sign of weakness."
  • Dissent: Conversations About Odd News Items
  • Book Notes: Hedging Your Bets
  • News Notes: What to cover is the question…

News and Fame 

Bob Patterson

  • WLJ Weekly: from the desk of the World's Laziest Journalist - Online Magazines Should Learn from the American Trucking Association: There's Strength in Numbers
  • Book Wrangler: Barmecide Banquets - and other imaginary items from Baghdad

Features 

Guest Photography

Local Photography

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Volume 3, Number 24 - for the week of Sunday, June 12, 2005

Current Events

Speculation

  • Clueless: The Evidence Mounts, and There's Nothing You Can Do With It
  • Impeachment: Fantasy of the Week (or of the Weak) 

Reporting from the Scene 

Bob Patterson

  • Book Wrangler: Gumshoes - The Search For The Next Great Mystery
  • WLJ Weekly: from the desk of the World's Laziest Journalist – "Wet the ropes!"

Features

Beach Photography

Note

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Volume 3, Number 23 - for the week of Sunday, June 5, 2005

Current Events

World View

  • Geopolitics: Fallout from the French Kiss of Death (with an exclusive editorial cartoon)
  • Our Man in Paris: Urge To Be - Just What Were the French Voting Against?
  • Dateline Paris: Get A Job! (includes new photographs from Paris)

Bob Patterson 

  • WLJ Weekly: from the desk of the World’s Laziest Journalist - The Hershey (PA) Auto Museum is "Sweet"
  • Book Wrangler: Beatniks with laptops, Otto von Stroheim’s legendary parties, and the Elephant Museum

Guest Photography 

Photography

Miscellaneous 

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Volume 3, Number 22 - for the week of Sunday, May 29, 2005

Current Events

  • Ethics: Snowflakes in DC in May – or Just Flakes
  • Getting Along: Compromise means no one is happy. Or it means everyone is happy a little. Or something.
  • Moral Nagging: The Amnesty International Report
  • Not That It Matters: We Get a Close Reading of the Downing Street Memo
  • Press Notes: Acknowledging the Dispute

Our Columnists

Features

Photography

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Volume 3, Number 21 - for the week of Sunday, May 22, 2005

Current Events

Features

Bob Patterson 

  • WLJ Weekly: from the desk of the World’s Laziest Journalist -Become a conservative radio talk show host for fun and profit! (Lots of both!)
  • Through the Viewfinder: Paul Newman Asked for My Autograph

Don Smith of Left Bank Lens 

Photography

New

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Volume 3, Number 20 - for the week of Sunday, May 15, 2005

Current Events

Guest Columnist - Jeremy Stahl

Bob Patterson 

  • WLJ Weekly: from the desk of the World’s Laziest Journalist - Naked Aggression
  • Book Wrangler: "…a slap in the mouth or a slug from a .45."

Features

Photography

  • Hollywood Rides: The George Barris Collection
  • Cowboy Art: John Wayne and Larry Flint, and Harry Shapiro from Chicago, a good friend of Jackson Pollock, channeling Frederic Remington
  • Architectural Color: West Side Whimsy 
  • Oddities: The Double Mini and Captain Kirk

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Volume 3, Number 19 - for the week of Sunday, May 8, 2005

Current Events

  • Underreported News: The Smoking Gun You Have to Admire
  • Meme Watch: Things fall apart, the center will not hold… and people are buying gay cars!
  • Press Notes: Celebrity trials are the opiate of the masses?
  • Religion: On Disciplining Children, God’s Vengeance, and Keeping Jews and Muslims Contained
  • Media Notes: The Run-Away Bride and Michael Jackson’s Urges – Not the Only News

Kansas

Bob Patterson 

  • WLJ Weekly: from the desk of World’s Laziest Journalist - Seven Days in May 
  • Book Wrangler: Time Travel isn’t a section in America’s most popular weekly magazine…

Automotive Features

  • Our Man in Paris: Cult Car (the Pope’s Golf)
  • Iran: Nuclear Ambitions, Automotive Ambitions
  • On Writing: The often repeated charge that Americans lack a sense of irony…
  • Cherry 54: A 1954 Chevrolet Corvette in all its glory…. (photo feature)

Features

Photography

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Volume 3, Number 18 - for the week of Sunday, May 1, 2005

Current Events

  • The Alarmist Dialogs: Paying Attention and its Disadvantages
  • Media Notes: Worms Turning? Notes on This Week’s Press Conference
  • Sensing Change: The Limits of Spin
  • Nuclear Fallout: The Oppressed Minority – Christians in America and Conservative Republicans – That Powerless Group of Outsiders
  • Pessimism: Hard Times in the Reality-Based Community, but Not Elsewhere
  • Delusions: Realism and Idealism are the Same Thing

Religion (or its absence)

Bob Patterson 

  • On The Scene: The Bloggerteers Motto: “One for all, all for one!” (as long as you’re a conservative)
  • WLJ Weekly: from the desk of the World’s Laziest Journalist - Kiss her, you fool!
  • Book Wrangler: Deja vu and existentialism in Westwood

Features

  • Paris May Day: On the scene in Paris, Sunday, May 01, 2005
  • Our Man in Paris: Another Phony War (Google versus the Bibliothèque Nationale)
  • Web Notes: Trademark and Public Domain Issues with the Eiffel Tower
  • Quotes: May Day - the day set aside by the Second Socialist International in 1889 to commemorate Labor and still celebrated around the world.
  • Late Update! In Defense of Bo Diddley added to last week’s Music: From the Department of Useless Information, the Pop Culture Bureau

Photography 

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Volume 3, Number 17 - for the week of Sunday, April 24, 2005

Current Events

  • Changes: The End of Outrage?
  • Warm Frogs: The So-Called Liberal Media Evaporates Before Our Eyes
  • Media Notes: The Grownups Will Tell You What You Need to Know
  • Anniversaries: An Oklahoman Turns European
  • Earth Day: Number Thirty-Five with Baked Alaska
  • Globalization: Archimedes said "Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world."  Here’s one.

Religion  

Bob Patterson 

  • WLJ Weekly: from the desk of the World’s Laziest Journalist - Fangs Out, Hair on Fire
  • Book Wrangler: James Dean, Philip K. Dick, and Don King together (again?) in one column?

Features

Photography 

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Volume 3, Number 16 - for the week of Sunday, April 17, 2005

Current Events

Bob Patterson 

  • WLJ Weekly: from the desk of the World's Laziest Journalist - "Off we go, into the wild blue yonder…"
  • Book Wrangler: E=MC squared isn’t square these days.

Our Man in Paris 

Features

Photography 

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Volume 3, Number 15 - for the week of Sunday, April 10, 2005

Current Events

Bob Patterson

  • WLJ Weekly: from the World’s Laziest Journalist - “Bomb’s Away!” Target? Liberal Media
  • Book Wrangler: Once you’ve written the review, why read the book?

Photography and more...

  • Landmarks: What Passes for History in Los Angeles
  • New York: A Good Day in Manhattan
  • Quotes: As the war continues, or the occupation, or whatever it is…
  • And special photos from last week - France: Gers is not Paris

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Volume 3, Number 14 - for the week of Sunday, April 3, 2005

Current Events

  • The Report: Newsmen Don’t Throw Curveballs
  • Holy War: The Tiger-by-the-Tail Problem
  • Words: The Rhetoric of the Godly and its Consequences
  • Ethics: Thinking of toasters in Rochester…
  • Press Notes: The Art of Controlling the Interview, and the Craft of Selling Advertising Slots
  • Polarization: The Effect of Washington’s Intervention in Florida Regarding the Woman with No Brain Waves for the Last Fifteen Years
  • Pedagogy: The Uses of Philosophy
  • Anger Management: On Taking Politics Way Too Seriously
  • Technology: On wanting to kill anyone who does not share your views….
  • Irony: Humor in Saying Actually What You Meant to Say
  • Not Quite So: Fahrenheit 911 Vindicated?
  • Pointers: Recommending Two Items

Bob Patterson

  • WLJ Weekly: - from the World’s Laziest Journalist - “They Shoot Horses Don’t They?”
  • Book Wrangler: So many books to review, so few free lunches to help sway the decision!

Photography and more...

The Usual

  • Quotes: Appropriate to recent events…

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Volume 3, Number 13  - for the week of Sunday, March 27, 2005

Current Events

The Main Event

Secondary Events 

Bob Patterson and more…

  • WLJ Weekly: from the World’s Laziest Journalist - “Good Americans, when they die, go to Paris.”
  • Book Wrangler: Book ‘em (Rue) Daunou
  • Supplement: Americans in Paris
  • Quotes: Paris and the French

Features 

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Volume 3, Number 12  - for the week of Sunday, March 20, 2005

Current Events

Bob Patterson 

  • WLJ Weekly: from the World’s Laziest Journalist - Operation “Repeal The New Deal” Continues
  • Book Wrangler: The Lost Episodes of the Twilight Zone

Francophile Corner

Features 

  • Cognac: Are These People Mad?
  • Boredom: Another Invention from the Eighteenth Century?
  • Quotes: On Lawyers and the Law

Photography

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Volume 3, Number 11  - for the week of Sunday, March 13, 2005

Current Events

Bob Patterson 

  • WLJ Weekly: from The World’s Laziest Journalist - How to Argue Like a Conservative Radio Talk Show Host (for fun and profit?)
  • Book Wrangler: National Columnists Day

Features 

Photography

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Volume 3, Number 10  - for the week of Sunday, March 6, 2005

Current Events

Special

  • Dialogs: Hunter Thompson Reconsidered

Bob Patterson 

  • WLJ Weekly: The World’s Laziest Journalist - Speculation Prompted by the Michael Jackson Trial
  • Book Wrangler: "The Boys on the Bus" - a review 33 years past deadline...

Features 

Photography

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Volume 3, Number 9  - for the week of Sunday, February 27, 2005

Current Events

Paris Weekly

Bob Patterson 

  • WLJ Weekly: The World’s Laziest Journalist - Lies, Damned Lies, Statistics, and Words of Mass Deception (WMD’s)
  • Book Wrangler: Born too soon to be a Hunter S. Thompson wannabe?

Features 

  • Beer: Political Differences and Lager and Stout and Ale
  • Quotes: Oscar Weekend (Fame) 

Photography

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Volume 3, Number 8  - for the week of Sunday, February 20, 2005

Current Events

Bob Patterson 

  • WLJ Weekly: The World’s Laziest Journalist - Roulette game or a train wreck about to happen?
  • Book Wrangler: 2Z77767, Rolf Wutherich, and Donald Turnipseed

Features 

  • Blood Sport: The Sport of the British Aristocrats (Aristos) Saved by the Perfidious French
  • Habits: “If smoking was about being grown up, the new Puritanism is about being a perpetual child…”
  • Gone Now: Arthur Miller
  • Words: Dangerous Things (even in French)
  • Quotes: “When ideas fail, words come in very handy.”

Photography

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Volume 3, Number 7    Sunday, February 13, 2005

Current Events

Bob Patterson 

  • WLJ Weekly: The World’s Laziest Journalist - “Would that it were so!”  (Return to the kill-the-messenger philosophy?)
  • Book Wrangler: Biker wisdom - Kansas: home of the highway with 318 miles and 11 curves.

Features 

  • Paris Weekly: 'Tidy Enough for Bobos' (Paris these days, with an exclusive photo gallery)
  • Quotes: Some really odd ones for Valentines Day (and more)
  • Photography: The Other Film Capital of Southern California

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Volume 3, Number 6    Sunday, February 6, 2005

Current Events

Bob Patterson

  • WLJ Weekly: The World’s Laziest Journalist - “…sealing wax, cabbages, and kings…”
  • Book Wrangler: “There were no rules for dealing with anarchists.”

Features

  • Film: Our Man on Paris finds Bob L'Éponge
  • Books: Our Responsibility To The Commons
  • Quotes: Considering Sports on Super Bowl Sunday

Photography

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Volume 3, Number 5    Sunday, January 30, 2005

Current Events

  • Empire: Decline and Fall Into Irrelevance
  • Mars and Venus: A Week for Policy Wonks
  • Leadership: Who Gets Run the Show?
  • Dialog: Being Truthful Is Irrelevant?
  • Tolerance: The Sponge Story Has Legs (That Sponge Has Legs?)
  • Words: Precise Language Can Serve Us Well

Bob Patterson

  • WLJ Weekly: The World’s Laziest Journalist - Corrections, Connections and Musical Selections
  • Book Wrangler: Dead seventy years and still ahead of his time…

Features

  • Paris Notes: A Brit Explains the French, and Our Man in Paris Gives Us the Truth (with photos)
  • Quotes: Leadership

Photography

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Volume 3, Number 4    Sunday, January 23, 2005

Current Events

Bob Patterson

  • WLJ Weekly: The World’s Laziest Journalist - May I borrow your Ford Cobra for two weeks?
  • Book Wrangler: What does it mean?  Zen and The Art of Vocabulary Building

Features

  • Book Note: Anniversaries - Cervantes’s Don Quixote
  • Quotes: Movies and Sunset Boulevard

Photography

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Volume 3, Number 3    Sunday, January 16, 2005

Current Events

  • Assessment: The Only Causes Worth Fighting For Are Lost Causes
  • Generations: How to Wage War as a Function of Age
  • Trends: It was the week of the Nazi revival…
  • Holidays: When is Tet this year?
  • Oops: Nothing to see here folks, move along…

Religion

Bob Patterson

  • WLJ Weekly: The World’s Laziest Journalist - Morphogenic Resonance and Reviving the Draft
  • Book Wrangler: “When you say that, smile!”

Features

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Volume 3, Number 2    Sunday, January 9, 2005

Current Events

Foreigners 

Bob Patterson

  • WLJ Weekly: The World’s Laziest Journalist - “Tell Me Something I Don’t Know”
  • Book Wrangler: “So many books, so little time.”

Features

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Volume 3, Number 1    Sunday, January 2, 2005

Current Events

The Season Ends

Bob Patterson

  • WLJ Weekly: The World's Laziest Journalist - Never play cards with a man named ‘Doc’  (Talk Radio)
  • Book Wrangler: Reach for the books, partner! (Howard Hughes)

Features

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Volume 2, Number 50    Sunday, December 19, 2004

Current Events

Travel

Bob Patterson

  • WLJ Weekly: The World’s Laziest Journalist - The "Trickle Up" Style of Journalism
  • Book Wrangler: The Mystery of the Missing Quotes and Other Literary Notes

Features

  • Music: The Best of the Best, from Brazil
  • Photography: Trying for Christmas
  • Manhattan Christmas: Christmas in the City (more photography)
  • Kids: They don't get it... (more photography)
  • Quotes: Useful Pithy Observations about the press and journalism and all that...

Seasonal

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Volume 2, Number 49    Sunday, December 12, 2004

Current Events

  • Words: Rumsfeld and his tin ear, and AWOL heart and mind…
  • Unintended Consequences: What We have Done and How We Talk About It
  • Oops: "Mr. Clean" withdraws his name for consideration…

Religion

Sidebars

Bob Patterson

  • WLJ Weekly: The World’s Laziest Journalist - Where is Australia?
  • Book Wrangler: Anyone want to write The Book of Ed Gein’s Favorite Recipes?

Features

  • Photography: December Gardens
  • Photography Follow-Up: Baccarat in Hollywood (actually Beverly Hills) – and a bit of Paris and Manhattan
  • Quotes: On Belief and Faith and that sort of thing…

Seasonal

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Volume 2, Number 48    Sunday, December 5, 2004

Current Events

Quick Hits

Bob Patterson

  • WLJ Weekly: The World’s Laziest Journalist - The WLJ disk jockey looks in the geography book….
  • Book Wrangler: If LA is illiterate, why are there so many great bookstores here?
Features

From the previous week...

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Volume 2, Number 47   Sunday, November 28, 2004

Special Items

  • America: William Nichols - The Right, the Left, and My Mother
  • Our Man In Paris: The Champs-Elysées as the Christmas lights are now up…

Current Events

Bob Patterson

  • WLJ Weekly: The World’s Laziest Journalist - Norman Rockwell, an American Original
  • Book Wrangler: That’s using the old loaf! (That’s Cockney rhyming slang that means, “That’s using your head.”)

Features

From the previous week...

  • Guest Photography: A Different Eye (jimmy b lookin)
  • Photography: Sunday morning in the other Los Angeles – Sunset Boulevard in Echo Park…

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Volume 2, Number 46   Sunday, November 21, 2004
     Posted Monday, November 22, 2004
Current Events
Bob Patterson
  • WLJ Weekly: The World’s Laziest Journalist - If they move… shoot ‘em!  (A column about… Photography!)
  • Book Wrangler: Talking emus, the Harry Stephen Keeler Society, and flocking penguins…
Features
  • Guest Photography: A Different Eye (jimmy b lookin)
  • Automobiles: Topolino news and the streets of Paris…
  • Photography: Sunday morning in the other Los Angeles – Sunset Boulevard in Echo Park…
  • Quotes - Useful Pithy Observations - on photography, and more…

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Volume 2, Number 45   Sunday, November 14, 2004
Current Events

Bob Patterson

  • WLJ Weekly: The World’s Laziest Journalist - Automobile museums and suggestions and other assorted car related material.  (For taking our minds off politics...)
  • Book Wrangler: Süsslichschmerz und Ceux de le Resistance (CDLR)

Features

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Volume 2, Number 44   Sunday, November 7, 2004
The Election Issue
 
Before Tuesday
  • Reality Check: Listen up!  There IS no War on Terror!  I repeat: There IS no War on Terror!  None!  We have all been conned!
  • Warming Up: Bush as Robespierre?
After Tuesday
Bob Patterson
  • WLJ Weekly: The World’s Laziest Journalist - Be careful what you dream…

Features

  • Photography: Gloom in Liberal Hollywood
  • Quotes - Useful Pithy Observations... Bertolt Brecht, Ambrose Bierce, Joseph Conrad – and a Brazilian fellow…

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Volume 2, Number 43   Sunday, October 31, 2004
Current Events
  • The Short Snark: The New Bin Laden Videotape
  • The Pledge: The Cult of Personality Returns (atavistic instincts are fascinating)
  • Breaking News: October surprises as seen from Paris, Atlanta, the London in Canada and upstate New York...
  • Class Warfare: We're not in Kansas any more? Oh yes we are!
  • Catching-Up: The Week of Quite Odd Events in Review

Bob Patterson

  • WLJ Weekly: The World’s Laziest Journalist - He's makin' a list and checkin' it twice. (Christmas comes early for the Republicans)
  • Book Wrangler: Bookstores always remind the columnist of "Bring Cash Alley" in Saigon
Features

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Volume 2, Number 42   Sunday, October 24, 2004
Current Events

Our Man in Paris

Bob Patterson

  • WLJ Weekly: The World’s Laziest Journalist - Alien Abduction or Breech of Security?
  • Book Wrangler: A book reviewer’s Christmas season bonanza …

Features

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Volume 2, Number 41   Sunday, October 17, 2004
Current Events
  • The Last Debate: Bush and Kerry in a last face-off ...
  • Endorsements: Those with little success and even less luck in life don't much care for disagreement about George Bush
  • The Draft: The issue that isn't an issue if the cease and desist order stands...
  • Odd Diagnoses: Bush's Brain and all that....
  • Press Notes: Roles and Responsibilities
  • Follow-Up: What changed after the second presidential debate? The folks from Venus bailed out.
  • Recommended This Week: Item of Note
Bob Patterson
  • WLJ Weekly: The World’s Laziest Journalist - Does carpe diem mean the daily special at a rug store?
  • Book Wrangler: How can you tell when a politician is lying? (Their lips are moving.)
     
    Features
  • Photography: It never rains in Southern California? Wet botanicals....
  • Quotes: Useful Pithy Observations... Albert Einstein gives fashion advice?  Sure.  Why not?

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Volume 2, Number 40   Sunday, October 10, 2004
Current Events
  • First Stringers: This Week's Presidential Debate
  • Irony: George Bush gets his suits from Georges de Paris...  And is told what to say by whom?
  • The Draw: The Debate of the Proxies
  • Reactions: Honesty as the Best Policy? And why did God create conservatives?
Features
Bob Patterson
  • WLJ Weekly: The World’s Laziest Journalist - Have we got a deal for you?
Photography

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Volume 2, Number 39   Sunday, October 3, 2004
Current Events
Our Man in Paris
  • Paris: A quick note and photo from the City That Never Sleeps (at least for one night) regarding this year’s nuit blanche...

Features

  • Theology: The Paris-Atlanta Dialogs
  • Travel: In the Land of Spiritual Elevators
  • Quotes: Useful Pithy Observations... Parting Shots
Photography

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Volume 2, Number 38   Sunday, September 26, 2004
Current Events
  • A Nation of Victims: The moral basis for redress, retaliation and even revenge in order to right any given wrong, real or imagined...
  • Rhetoric: The campaigns settle on their preferred rhetorical devices for the final weeks...
  • Policy: A slightly autistic self-satisfaction remains the dominant tendency of American power. (Bush at the United Nations)
  • Odds and Ends: A Curious Map Reveals God's Politics
Ongoing Issues
  • Follow-Up: Who do you trust? What happened to CBS?
  • Piling On: One step beyond the tipping point...
Features
  • The Work Ethic: Is the route to sanity to do as little as possible?
  • Quotes: Even More Useful Pithy Observations - Amicule, deliciae, num is sum qui mentiar tibi? (Baby, sweetheart, would I lie to you?)
Bob Patterson
  • WLJ Weekly: The World's Laziest Journalist "Cool Hunting" - done by a hippie columnist ...
  • Book Wrangler: Early Christmas gift suggestions?
Photography
  • Photography: On the Boulevard - Raymond Chandler Territory

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Volume 2, Number 37   Sunday, September 19, 2004
Current Events
  • Trends: There just isn't enough fairy dust to fix this one ...
  • Momentum: The rolling meme gathers speed ...
  • Insecurity: It seems to be 1660 again ...
  • Winning: What is being said about why the Democrats can't seem to get it together ...
Features
  • Paris Notes: Ces filles jumelles, sans des talents reconnaissables ...
  • Paris Culture: This weekend's Techno Parade - and what to do with a really bad movie ...
  • Minor Note: The Paris-Hollywood Thing
  • Books: If you're so smart, how come you're not rich?
  • Quotes: Even More Useful Pithy Observations - a potpourri, a plethora of pundits from Carl Sagan to Al Capone, from Garrison Keillor to William Gladstone…
Bob Patterson
  • WLJ Weekly: The World's Laziest Journalist - "Don't make any sudden moves!"
  • Book Wrangler: The never ending search for truth, justice, the American way, and a copy of Kitty Kelley's new book ...
Photography

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Volume 2, Number 36   Sunday, September 12, 2004

Current Events
Features
  • Paris Notes: Even thugs need advice now and then...
  • Philosophy: True Lies
  • Quotes: Even More Useful Pithy Observations - Everything you ever wanted to know about Paul Valéry, and more...

Bob Patterson

  • WLJ Weekly: The World's Laziest Journalist - Conservatives Forgive the Sins of the Sixties
  • Book Wrangler: My life is like an episode of ...
  • Film: The fox condemns the trap, not himself...
Photography
  • Photography: The Wright Stuff - the Frank Lloyd Wright Stoner House in Hollywood (1923)
  • In the Zone: On the recent expedition to the Twilight Zone event in the Valley ...

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Volume 2, Number 35   Sunday, September 5, 2004

Current Events

Features

  • Paris Notes: Politics and Celebrities, Headscarves, Hostages and Short People
  • Paris Extra: The more things change, the more they...  the Chinese arrive soon?
  • The Law: Have you no shame, sir?  The philosophy of law….
  • Quotes: Even More Useful Pithy Observations... regarding mental heath and smoking?  Something like that...

Bob Patterson

  • WLJ WEEKLY: The World's Laziest Journalist - The Stanley Lord Journalism Awards?

Photography

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Volume 2, Number 34   Sunday, August 29, 2004

Current Events
  • Trends: The Coming Bush Victory
  • Counting Votes: Guest Columnist Rick Brown - It's the Electoral College, Stupid!
  • News Cycles: Friday Afternoon Follies (Bush Lucky Breaks and Spies)
  • Political Theater: Our President Doesn't Deal with Losers, or Cripples, or Whiners
  • UK Notes: Blair Does Not Have the Political Skills of Bush (or maybe he does)
  • Odds and Ends: Three odd political items...
  • Follow-Up: The Meme Gathers Momentum
On Character
  • Character 1: The Story That Won't Die - leading to a precise definition of cowardice...
  • Character 2: From the Department of Useless Advice
  • Character 3: Spite and its uses... Why One Votes for Bush
Features
  • History: The Liberation of Paris (and the rise of California)
  • Surrealism: How the World Ends (This week's version...)
  • Quotes: Even More Useful Pithy Observations...

    Bob Patterson
  • WLJ WEEKLY: The World's Laziest Journalist - Journalism New York style has evolved from the Pentagon Papers to spin lackeys...
  • WLJ Sidebars: Hot on the trail of some old gossip...

Photography

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Volume 2, Number 33   Sunday, August 22, 2004

Current Events
  • Attack Ads: The Swift Boat Veterans for Truth and all that...
  • Fitness for Command: No one wants to mention the elephant in the room, but things change...
  • Couldn't Be: From the Department of Oops! - Need some spin here, and some damage control....
  • Listen to the Women: Points to Consider
  • Confidence: Who do you trust? The week started with the New York Times causing trouble again.
  • Philosophy: George Bush has read Immanuel Kant? What's really going on here?
  • Follow-Ups: Sensitivity and Madness (Cheney and Keyes)
  • Conspiracy Theories: Assuming Competence on Scant Evidence (editor's official position)
Features
  • Film Notes: Affirmative Action Should Not Keep Me From the Movies (a guest column by Joy Childs)
  • The Life: Ric Erickson's Report from Paris
  • Gone: Julia Child and Donald Justice
  • Quotes: Useful Pithy Observations... Robert Frost on humor, Hemingway on writing, some regarding conservatives and the rich, as some on, well, cats...
  • Links and Recommendations - new this week, Don Smith, Paris photographer and his Left Bank Lens
Bob Patterson
Photography
  • Photography: Hollywood Ghosts (new photos added August 23)

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Volume 2, Number 32   Sunday, August 15, 2004

Current Events

Features

  • WLJ Weekly: The World's Laziest Journalist - "The owls are not what they seem."
  • Paris Weekly: A building without a concierge is a building without a soul?
  • Quotes: Useful Pithy Observations... Three deep thoughts, and one that may be.

Photography

Special (held over from previous week)

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Volume 2, Number 31   Sunday, August 8, 2004
Current Events
  • Political Discourse: There seem to be some disagreements on methodology...
  • The L-Word: Rehabilitating the word LIBERAL - and Elvis?
  • Words: The president once again says something really dumb, which is a Freudian slip or not, or...
  • Election Notes: Tough Times for the Third Man (Ralph Nader not Orson Welles)
  • High Finance: You can't touch me! Ha!
  • History: It's always the French, isn't it? The Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798
  • UK Notes: They do wonder about us...
  • The Law: Ignorance of the law is no excuse... an odd little item here...
  • Odds and Ends: Oklahoma and Los Angeles - Details, details, details...
  • Sidebar: Realism from the Right?
Features
  • Gig Chronicles: The Boogie (Phillip Raines plays North Georgia)
  • Paris Weekly: Friday night - La rando du vendredi à Paris... and dancing Saturday night (text and photos from our man in Paris)
  • Quotes: Useful Pithy Observations… Immanuel Fichte and Erica Jong together at last

Bob Patterson

  • WLJ Weekly: The World's Laziest Journalist - Fresno, Tigers, the Deprong Mori, and Penn State
  • Election Trick Extra: A voter problem that may not register with the major media...
  • Book Wrangler: If there are ghosts, writers and awards then we must ask: Are there awards for ghostwriters?

Photography

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Volume 2, Number 30   Sunday, August 1, 2004
Current Events
  • Fixing Things: What to Make of the 9/11 Commission's Report
  • Book Notes: Social Darwinism as seen from Pasadena
  • UK Notes: Using the law to keep delusions under control...
  • Gloom and Doom: The Really Dismal Science and the Damned Invisible Hand
  • French Doctors: No one is neutral as you are with us or with the evildoers...
  • The Law: Lawsuits Destroying American Business
  • Sidebar: "How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!"

Boston and the Election

Features

  • WLJ Weekly: The World's Laziest Journalist - “Muster in Custer” or “East of Eden”?
  • Alabama: Audemus Jura Nostra Defendere
  • Quotes: Useful Pithy Observations… Doctor Johnson on life, and others on war.

Photography

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Volume 2, Number 29   Sunday, July 25, 2004
Current Events
Ongoing Issues

Features

  • WLJ Weekly: The World's Laziest Journalist - A sacred pilgrimage for a Hemingway wannabe...
  • Book Wrangler: A famous writer gets burned up about a Fahrenheit 9/11 invitation...
  • Paris News: More fun and games from Paris! The chips are down.
  • Odds and Ends: Condiments Go to WAR!
  • Writing Well 1: The winners of this year's Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest are announced...
  • Writing Well 2: Faulkner in Hollywood - Even Now
  • Quotes: Useful Pithy Observations… from Oscar Levant, Franz Kafka and André Maurois (a great team!)

Photography

Reference (new)

  • Sources: For Political Commentary and News Before It Hits The Major Media

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Volume 2, Number 28   Sunday, July 18, 2004
Current Events

Features

  • WLJ Weekly: The World's Laziest Journalist - Are Howard Hughes, Jett Rink, and Jethro Bodine, the Holy Trinity of the oil barons' brat pack?
  • Bastille Day!: Allons enfants de la patrie!  (With photos from Wednesday in Paris...)
  • Quotes: Useful Pithy Observations… this time new sources, and a bit from both Montaigne and Hunter S. Thompson!

Photography

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Volume 2, Number 27   Sunday, July 11, 2004
Current Events

Features

  • WLJ Weekly: The World's Laziest Journalist - "I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it."
  • Book Wrangler: Who's to say when dissent descends into sedition?
  • Automobiles: A Debate on Virtue and Exploitation
  • Language: Speaking With Dogs
  • Odds and Ends: The Law in Italy
  • Quotes: Useful Pithy Observations… this time some unusual Hemingway and much more

Photography

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Volume 2, Number 26   Sunday, July 4, 2004
Current Events - The Law

The Michael Moore film...

Fun and Games

  • Religion: Heresy - In the Specific Religious (and Los Angeles) Meaning of the Term
  • Ethics: Many Voices - On Winning or Playing Fair
  • Couldn't be so!: Your government at work... hoping there are some things you won't notice.

Features

  • WLJ Weekly: The World's Laziest Journalist - Sturgeon's Law and Zero Eight Foxtrot
  • Paris Weekly: Paris Chronicles, Salut! - Ric
  • Quotes: On America (4th of July Special) and Gatsby, an American Classic

Photography

  • Photography: The geometry of leisure…
  • On Photography: Through the Viewfinder - Old photo lesson updated for the digital age: Don't be an equipment snob.

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Volume 2, Number 25   Sunday, June 27, 2004
Current Events
  • Trends: Something is up. Or maybe not. Or maybe so. (Cheney misbehaves?)
  • Basics: They hate us? That proves we're right of course.
  • Semantic Theory: Deconstructionist Semantics Used to Explain When a Lie is Not a Lie
  • Follow-Up: On the other hand... The insightful, levelheaded News Guy clarifies matters.
  • Couldn't be so: ... and the madness continues.
  • Sidebar: The Children of Conservatives

The Michael Moore film...

  • Reviews 1: Less in no longer Moore, and never was
  • Reviews 2: Is there such a thing as a legitimate abuse of power?
  • An Alternative: If Michael Moore had any self-control... The film he didn't make.
  • Review: Bob Patterson Reviews Michael Moore's New Film...

The Press

  • Press Notes: The news media wakes up and starts doing its job?
  • Journalism 101: What journalism is and what it is not. A dialog.

Features

  • WLJ Weekly: The World's Laziest Journalist - Return of the guillotine?
  • Odds and Ends: The French. Cats. Madness.
  • Psychology: On Having a Positive Attitude - The argument that happy people are quite dangerous...
  • Quotes: Useful Pithy Observations... from Maugham and Freud

Photography

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Volume 2, Number 24   Sunday, June 20, 2004
Current Events
  • Major News: The Big Stories of the Week. Not Really News. Just Confirmations.
  • Policy Notes: Who needs respect? As long as they fear us we're safe?
  • Impeachment: The Issue is Actually Raised by Over Four-Hundred Legal Scholars
  • Press Notes: Fox News Officially Censured for Lying (but not here)
  • Follow-Up: The wheels turn slowly, but they do turn....
  • Odds and Ends: What to cover, and in what depth...

Arguing with others...

Features

  • WLJ Weekly: The World's Laziest Journalist - A poltergeist guest and a feast of paranoid speculation...
  • From Paris: This Week's Exchange with the editor of MetropoleParis
  • Television: The Politics of the Heartland
  • Photography: As seen by others... Guest Photographers
  • Quotes: Useful Pithy Observations… Steinbeck and Nietzsche

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Volume 2, Number 23   Sunday, June 13, 2004
Current Events
  • Reagan: Ronald Reagan is dead. So is Emma Goldman.
  • Tortured Logic: Ask a lawyer, get an answer...  Just what is legal?
  • Sidebar: Capturing lightning in a bottle - The Reagan Magic Formula
  • On Our Side: Choosing friends and allies ...
  • Disconnects: Things that just couldn't be so ...
  • Oops Sorry: Brain Damage - Actual and Metaphoric (government apologies of the week)

Features

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Volume 2, Number 22   Sunday, June 6, 2004

Current Events
  • Ceremonies: The Anniversary of D-Day Sixty Years Ago
  • Memorial Day: We're always looking for the triumph of the good guys and happiness ever after...
  • Soldiers: They Are the Good Guys
  • Changes: Thursday was supposed to be a slow news day and no one told George Tenet
  • International Relations: Two Views. 1. Are we our leaders? 2. Pragmatic Friendship
  • Bush in Paris: The Week's Manif of the Day - Exclusive Report for Our Man In Paris (with photos)
  • Odds and Ends: Gay Marriage and Angry Conservatives (but not Bush this time!)
  • Sidebar: Rhetorical Flourishes and Imaginary Friends

Features

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Volume 2, Number 21   Sunday, May 30, 2004
Current Events

Features

  • WLJ Weekly: The World's Laziest Journalist  Crazy, man, crazy! The return of the bebop sensibilities?
  • Books: The Book Wrangler Returns (A Bob Patterson extra!)
  • Religion: A Follow-Up on the Unitarians (Texas Theology Revisited)
  • Legal Oddities: Adventures in Intellectual Property Rights
  • Photography: Good Light in Los Angeles
  • Quotes: Useful Pithy Observations... (even more this week)
  • Links and Recommendations: Gros Morne National Park, A writer's adventures in Newfoundland...

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Volume 2, Number 20   Sunday, May 23, 2004
Current Events
  • Legitimacy: We are the good guys - and no one seems to understand that...
  • Popular Elections: Vox Populii, Vox Dei and all that stuff...
  • Trapped: Notes on the War Scandals
  • Military Views: What the former commanders are saying these days...
  • Sidebars: Minor Press Notes... but startling ones.
  • Religion: Today In Religion - Texas Theology

Features

  • WLJ Weekly: The World's Laziest Journalist: Does Zipf's law apply to Schrödinger's cat? (Bob Patterson's weekly column)
  • Film Notes: Fahrenheit 9/11 Wins Palme D'Or Award at Cannes (and our readers in France have their say...)
  • Odds and Ends: Happy Endings in La-La Land! (It really does pay to watch the news!)
  • Photography: Nice and surreal - Hollywood mornings
  • Quotes: Useful Pithy Observations... (Bob provides some good ones this week.)

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Volume 2, Number 19   Sunday, May 16, 2004
Current Events
  • Responsibility: Responsibility Military Style... and legal issues…
  • Explaining Bush: A young and callow fellow, or a coward and a sociopath?  Or an effective, heroic leader?
  • Follow Ups: Torture and morality and all that sort of thing - Alan Dershowitz and Robert Jay Lifton
  • History Repeated: We lost Iraq - so the Chinese win?  Could be.
  • Other Views: Worst Case Scenarios for this week...
  • Sidebar: Good intentions and a little fudging on the résumé and people get all upset...

Features

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Volume 2, Number 18   Sunday, May 9, 2004
Features
  • WLJ Weekly: The World's Laziest Journalist: Reelect Wolfowitz and Halliburton in 04?
  • New Fiction: Old Dog by Deborah Vatcher
  • Photography: Candid Paris by a guest photographer, with a local reply…

Current Events

  • International Law: Chickens coming home to roost, or the cliché of your choice...
  • Leadership: The CEO President (folks are getting nervous)
  • Religion: On your knees, America!
  • Weekly Spinners: Responsibility and blame and all that sort of thing...
  • Entropy: Things spinning down, as if it matters...

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Volume 2, Number 17   Sunday, May 2, 2004
Current Events
  • War Notes: How things are going depends on how you look at things, as it is all a matter of having the right attitude…
  • The Dead: A turning point this week?  A long road to the final paragraphs that suggest just that…
  • The Zeitgeist: Nathaniel West, cellos and mountain lions... Strange Times as seen from Los Angeles
  • History Lessons: A minor history lesson from an unlikely source …  Clemenceau jokes around with Woodrow Wilson?  Something in praise of Warren G. Harding?
  • Press Notes: Fox News, Fair and Balanced - Just Not Very Canadian
  • Sidebar: Selling ersatz personal responsibility to the masses...
  • Pythons: The Monty Python survivors (Eric Idle and Terry Jones) speak out ...

Features

  • Photography: May Day - From our correspondents in Paris and Chicago...
  • Minor Ironies: The Revenge of the French Against America
  • Quotes: Two more odd ones…

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Volume 2, Number 16   Sunday, April 25, 2004
Current Events

Features

  • Fiction: The Ride (new fiction from Deborah Vatcher)
  • Travel: Lawyers On The Road
  • Book Notes: The Panda as seen from Canada, Paris, Boston Georgia and Chicago ...
  • Follow-Up: Looking Back and Looking Forward (1968)
  • Cultural Notes: Is it time to eschew Roland Barthes for the Marxist critic Walter Benjamin?
  • Photography: Hot Rods on Sunset Boulevard
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Volume 2, Number 15   Sunday, April 18, 2004

Current Events
Features
  • Fiction: Goat Farm - new fiction from Deborah Vatcher
  • Books: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry - requiescant in pace - but not likely.
  • Movies: Getting Out of Endless Loops - Lawrence of Arabia and his Motorcycle
  • Photography: The famous (not really) Cactus Man of Mulholland Drive. 

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Volume 2, Number 14   Sunday, April 11, 2004
Current Events

Features

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Volume 2, Number 13   Sunday, April 4, 2004
Current Events
Features
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Volume 2, Number 12   Sunday, March 28, 2004
Current Events
  • The Worm Turns (1):  Last Sunday Someone Spoke up…  Press Coverage – What do reporters actually do for a living?
  • The Worm Turns (2):  An overview of the 9/11 hearings.   William Clarke testified.  He was mensch, as they say.
  • Logic: The Meme of the Month - If Descartes were alive today these neoconservative guys would kick that evil French fellow in the shins and beat the snot out of him, in moral outrage, or just for the fun of it.
  • Bush League Humor: Public Relations and Political Gain - Getting the Tone Right (with photographs)
  • Tipping Points: Sometimes folks actually throw the bums out… Flash Report from Paris (Could this happen here?)
  • History: George Bush as sort of, kind of Oliver Cromwell?  That is a stretch.
  • Religion: Mel Will Not Go Away!  Other possible headings for this?  … Why We Are All Wrong About Mel Gibson  … France Gets a Gift from America … Algernon Charles Swinburne, Spanking Fetishes and Jesus
  • Quotes - The last stage of sentimentalism is homicidal mania? Britain’s Feydeau – Joe Orton?
Features

Phillip Raines photo-essays…

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Volume 2, Number 11   Sunday, March 21, 2004
Current Events
  • Spain Changes Course: The Bombing and then the Vote in Spain Explained... The Two Opposing Views of What It All Means
  • Bullfighting: Why would the Spanish find this patronizing?
  • Logic: The Limitations of Empiricism in Politics
  • The Law: Stop the judges! Send the gay folks somewhere else!
  • Sex Matters (2): And the week after International Women's Day?
  • Sidebars: Mel Gibson again, and an item on labor law...

Features

  • Photography: Sunset Strip Noir (black and whites)
  • Music Notes: Follow Up - Howard Stern is our Shostakovich?
  • Quotes: The Usual Useful Pithy Observations - with two new George Bush items...

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Volume 2, Number 10    Sunday, March 14, 2004
Current Events
Features
  • Photography: Botanicals for those in colder climes…
  • Book Notes: Blix speaks out, as does Lord Hutton, in his way...
  • Music and Politics: Shostakovich and Stalin - Bill Bennett and Janet Jackson et. al.
  • Notes from France: Sabotage of the Capitalist Message, Demonstrations, and Heated Debate
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Volume 2, Number 9   Sunday, March 7, 2004
Current Events
  • Leadership and Faith: A short meditation on the nature of faith and reason...
  • Leadership: Get With The Program - The Most Influential Item Published This Week
  • Proud Victims: How George Bush and Mel Gibson are connected in some way...
  • Kulturkampf: Kulturkampf?  Blitzkrieg?  Why would a critic of George Bush use such words?
  • UK Troubles: An item indicating Bush is lucky folks here are not really that angry with him...
  • The Economy: The Sky is Falling! The Sky is Falling!
  • France and US (us): Will Mel Gibson Conquer France Too? (and a few other odd items)

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