Author: ssw15

One year after the tsunami. Various ceremonies. But, what is in the aftermath?

Johnny Damon, shaved and not stirred (there’s a picture of him shaved somewhere in that link).

“Doonesbury” of late has been interesting – B.D. is slowly making his way to the V.A. hospital for counseling. Mike’s daughter Alex has spent this week writing the most ridiculous college application essays (one about her ex-boyfriends and how dumping them has taught her Important Life Lessons; one on page 318 of her autobio (umm, that might be the UPenn application, I believe), where she imagines winning the Nobel Prize and thanking her fill-in-the-blank college alma mater; and one where she forgot to edit and plugged in “I’ll be so proud to be at Yale,” when it was an essay for another school entirely). Someone wrote in to the Doonesbury FAQ, accusing Garry Trudeau of not being pro-Christmas, so the “Doonesbury” website posted Christmas strips of the past. Cool stuff – ranging from the 70’s (wherein Kim Rosenthal Doonesbury as a toddler spending her first Christmas as a Vietnamese adoptee sang a non-Christmas diddy while everyone else in Doonesbury world sang Christmas songs – wait, weren’t Kim’s folks Jewish – why do they have a Christmas tree for?) to the poignant Gulf War Christmas (where Boopsie’s thinking about B.D. in his first tour of duty in the Gulf) to the Dec. 2001 Christmas (B.D. on guard duty at World Trade Center’s remains).

NY Times’ Christmas editorial:

You don’t really have to be in the mood for the Fourth of July. No one ever talks about having that Memorial Day spirit. Even Thanksgiving can be distilled, without too much disrespect. But Christmas is something different. Feeling is the point of it, somewhere under all that shopping. To think of Scrooge is to think of his conversion, the cartwheeling of his emotions after his long night of the soul. But the more interesting part of the story is his dogged resistance to feeling the way everyone thinks he’s supposed to feel – about death, about charity, about prize turkeys hanging at the poulterer’s.

Most of us know how we want to feel this time of year, whatever holiday we are celebrating. We want to feel safe, loving and well loved, well fed, openhanded, and able to be moved by the powerful but very humble stories that gather in this season. We would like to feel that there is a kind of innocence, not in our hearts, since our hearts are such complicated places, but in the very gestures and rituals of late December. We would like to feel that we are returning to something unchanged, some still spot in a spinning world. Whether you believe with an absolute literalism or with a more analogic faith, whether you believe at all, whether you are Christian or Jewish or Muslim or merely human, the word we would like to feel most profoundly now is Peace. [….]

One night will not do it, nor will one day. Peace does not simply appear in the sky overhead or lie embodied one morning in a manger. We come into this season knowing how we want it to make us feel, and we are usually disappointed because humans never cease to be human. But we are right to remember how we would like to feel. We are right to long for peace and good will.

Merry Christmas to all! Wishes for Peace and Good will on Earth.

Well, at this hour, the state mediators apparently got the union and MTA management together, and NY Times’ Sewell Chan and Steven Greenhouse’s article was a good read – plus, I came out feeling a lot more impressed with the power of mediation as a form of alternative dispute resolution:

Jerome Lefkowitz, a labor lawyer who helped draft a state law that provides for mediation and arbitration in contract disputes involving police, firefighters and transit workers, said he felt the law had helped people find a path of reason.

“Mediators must have the facility to listen to what the negotiators are saying and to hear priorities and demands that may not be articulated explicitly,” he said. “When they start making progress, more tradeoffs follow pretty quickly, once you can break the ice.”

Mediation as assisted negotiation is pretty helpful. When you’ve got sides that can’t exactly negotiate together, why not get someone to help with the negotiating?

At least stop the speaking badly of each other. That sure didn’t help. But, now that the strike is over, let me cross my fingers in hoping that the subway lines will be up and running by morning, with decent frequency and not too much slowness. (on the other hand, with the Xmas/Hanukah rush, there might actually be less riders anyway!). Mind you, if the N isn’t working on time in my end of Brooklyn, then I’ll really know that MTA is a screw up.

But, I do think that the Brooklyn Bridge walking has been great exercise (besides the stiffness of my muscles and other mild pain). I could see myself doing it more often in the future as exercise (so long as I know there’s a subway on the other side to get me to my end of Brooklyn). Or at least when it’s not so cold (or hot either). Umm, yeah. Sure… (excuse me as I return to the land of denial…)

Yankee fans are awaiting the arrival of Johnny Damon. But, he’s still wearing a red shirt… (still attached to the Red Sox?).

NY Observer does a profile on another NY Asian American: Fareed Zakaria – a fascinating inside look on this foreign affairs specialist. (check it out before the Observer takes the article down for something else). NY1.com had an interesting One on One taken on him too. I should link it, once NY1’s website isn’t as strike-heavy as it has been of late.

So glad tomorrow’s Friday…

Today, I went back to work after having a mini-vacation on Monday and Tuesday (requested and approved long before I thought the MTA strike was going to happen). So, I got dropped off at the Brooklyn Bridge and walked this morning, making the classic NYC MTA strike trek. The walk wasn’t so bad (the uphill direction from Tillary to the first part of the bridge was a tough part and it was sooo cold). I made good time, even for a slowpoke like me.

The evening walk was also not so bad. Again, I made better time than I had expected. At one point, I walked next to a bunch of young people and I happened to overhear their conversation. The girl mentioned something about “If I pop my kneecap, it’d be assault and battery right?” and someone mentioned “torts” and “negligence” – and I was sorely tempted to ask them if they were 1L’s who was escaping or taking a torts final exam. However, I didn’t get to blurt my question since I started lagging behind on the bridge and the kids were moving ahead.

Brooklyn Boro Pres Marty Markowitz cheered people home on the Brooklyn side of the bridge at the evening rush. He invited people to go to Boro Hall and take a bathroom/coffee break. I got a ride back home, once my folks finally met up with me in downtown Brooklyn.

All this walking is going to cause me stiff muscles.

NY Times’ Jennifer Steinhauser reported on Day 1 of the strike, with all the now-familiar soundbites. But one cute quote from her article:

Commuters will also be hoping for a better commute than yesterday’s evening rush madness at Pennsylvania Station. Tens of thousands of confused Long Island Rail Road passengers sought entrance to the station but were directed to one of four entrances – all of them clogged with humanity – that often did not correspond to their departing train.

“How do I get in?” said one woman to the officer. Another passenger, a man, called out “Liz? I think I lost my wife.”

Poor guy. I wondered if he did catch up with his wife amidst the mass of humanity at Penn Station.

NY Times’ Sam Roberts profiles on Taylor and the Taylor Law:

[….] But few names have gained as much currency in the annals of New York lawmaking as George W. Taylor, who gave his name to the state’s famous Taylor Law, which bars public employees in the state from striking and exposes their unions and members to heavy fines.

“This is one law where the legislators didn’t fight to have their name on it,” he later recalled.

Dr. Taylor, a mediator, arbitrator and University of Pennsylvania history professor, was the chairman of a panel appointed by Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller in response to the 12-day walkout by New York City transit workers in 1966.

“I am determined,” Governor Rockefeller said, “that this should never happen again.”

The Taylor Law was passed after workers defied the Condon-Wadlin Act, which mandated the automatic dismissal of striking public employees and barred rehired workers from getting raises for three years. The penalties were regarded as so punitive that they proved unenforceable.

In fact, special legislation introduced by the governor later in 1966 granted transit workers amnesty from most of the penalties, as had been done the year before for city welfare workers.

In 1967, the Taylor Law, while recognizing the right of public employees to bargain collectively, also provided for fines and other penalties against striking unions, their leaders and, as amended in 1969, individual workers. A flurry of strikes ensued after the law was passed as organized labor tested its provisions and a number of unions were penalized. [….]

In all honesty, though, I’m hardly pro-MTA (I rant far too often over their lack of logic and service problems) and I could see how the union has its point – how can you call it a union if you have a two-tier treatment toward the membership? I can appreciate it in the abstract, but it’s hard to see how these two sides can come to a settlement when there’s so much lack of trust. It takes two to tango, after all – so striking means no negotiating and no trust means no deal too. And, who is truly representing the interests of the riders? I can’t say that I trust either side – there are too many (self-)interests involved.

Also, the Day 1 wall-to-wall strike coverage on tv was certainly interesting. I felt a little uncomfortable with how Channel 11 news seemed to air far more anti-labor sentiments and I liked that Channel 7 seemed more even-handed, airing quotes from both a pro-labor commuter (or more anti-MTA) and an anti-labor commuter.

Is it me or does the disparity look a little disparate? NYC court employees had to hoof it to work; Big Law Firm people could take the firm’s specially chartered shuttle bus or the telework from home (especially since Big Law Firm can afford to let work be done from home). At least it’s the holiday season, so there aren’t too many trials scheduled.

Have you done your Christmas cards yet? Or has e-greetings really taken over?

Johnny Damon, ex-Boston Red Soxer, is now a Yankee. He’s part-Asian, is a self-proclaimed Idiot, and has to shave now that he’s coming to NYC (since Boss Steinbrenner doesn’t like excess facial hair).

Now, let’s see how Day 3 of the Strike will go. Hmm. When can we say “out” to this strike?

On Friday night, co-workers and I went to the Atlantic Chip Shop. Good stuff – I can’t believe how much fried food I could dare to eat! I somehow resisted the fried Twinkie.

I finished reading “The Rule of Four.” Check out the official website as well. Fascinating book, a DaVinci Code-meets-A-Separate Peace. The friendships of the characters, four seniors in their final semester at Princeton in 1999, grappled with their loosened-tightened bonds while one friend, Paul, is trying to finish his thesis on a mysterious Renaissance book – reminded me a lot of how the friendships in “A Separate Peace” were developed and torn apart and re-established and reflected. The mystery was very strange. I liked how the co-authors were themselves friends from college (one from Princeton, and the other from Harvard, who took on their dreams of being authors).

Christmas stuff in the works – shopping? Card-distributing? Um, yeah! I’m on it, really!

Such sad news: Actor John Spencer of “West Wing” – Leo, the prospective Democratic Vice President – passed away from a heart attack. He was a good watch and a great supporting actor who was able to balance out the rest of the cast.

Well, a NYC tradition – awaiting the MTA vs. the Union thing. As of the hour that I’m writing this, negotiations continue. Hope continues, as 1010 WINS News reports.

I couldn’t avoid watching Donald Trump’s “The Apprentice,” could I? Well, I watched most of it. I posit that The Donald could have picked both people (they’re certainly quite fine, as compared to past two finalists, where one was overwhelmingly better than the other).

This week’s Dr House was cra-azy. House helps a Munchausen patient (the kind of patient who deliberately makes herself ill to get attention). Dr. Foreman has no clue that he’s just like House?! But, he’s younger, so he may still be able to avoid the mistakes (in life) House has made. Dr. Chase may be finally on the road of personal redemption? And, man, can Dr. Cameron turn her internal bitch on! We need more Dr. Wilson (Robert Sean Leonard is still quite a looker, even as he’s no longer in his first youth).

Let’s hope for a reasonable commute in the morning. Pretty please!

I was channel-changing on late Saturday morning, 12/10/05, and FOX apparently was showing a G.I. Joe cartoon. No, not the cartoon version of the 1980’s, but this new version in an anime style. I respect anime, but why is it that just about every cartoon these days have to be in that style? It works when it works, but it doesn’t work all the time. Really. See, I don’t care that the new G.I. Joe cartoon has new characters, but the old characters don’t seem at all the way I remembered of them. Duke is bulkier than ever (well, that’s anime for you, I guess – hunks are hunks). Scarlett looks like a red-headed, pale anime girl – which makes me feel real uncomfortable, since the old cartoon had her as an All-Irish-American Red Head Strong Woman (healthy looking ex-girl scout kind of Special Ops operative, who might have been a little well-endowed to attract the pre-pubescent male audience to pretty girls). And, they seemed to have lost the whole Duke-Scarlett chemistry (guess they don’t want to repeat the old Joe romances of yore? And, oh, yeah, the G.I. Joe movie, where Duke’s half-brother, Falcon – voiced by Don Johnson – learns to be a true Joe leader and where we get the whole backstory of the Cobra organization – quite a cartoon movie!). The old cartoon had a different animation, but it looked natural, rather than ultra-stylized as anime tends to do. Anyway, I didn’t keep watching the new G.I. Joe to see how the Cobra Commander and the rest of his troupe looked like. I mean, why mar my childhood memories, right?

Saw “The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe.” I was impressed by how the movie was very consistent with the book (then again, it’s been years since I read the book, but my impressions were still there). Funny, though, in watching one scene, I now see the Christian influence, but when I was a kid, I just thought it was a powerful thing (it still is, regardless of what inspired Lewis to write it). But, it’s a good movie. (oh, and nice website – which links to a interesting book summaries website – I really wish I could dig up the old collection we had – there was an explanation to the wardrobe after all!)…

Peter, Susan, Edmund, Lucy were kids in tough times, and it was poignant to see it brought so well to life. (see, C.S. Lewis was a little too casual about the war – The Blitz happened, so the children were sent away; well, he lived it, so I guess he took the stiff-upper-lip approach, I guess). The movie really brought a war alive, so to speak, and how it affected the home front (which was a target by the Germans bombing London) and it hit home to the early 21st century life (well, we are supposed to be living in the era of the war against terror) – seeing the civilians being targets like that? And, then the Pevensie kids had to get involved in Narnia’s war against the White Witch? Frightful stuff. Not Harry Potter and not Lord of the Rings, but the feelings of both were there – I think each franchise winds up influencing each other (texts and movies). Oh, and I got to love how the Professor’s part of Narnia wasn’t forgotten!

I saw one of these infomercials – Barry Williams, aka Greg Brady of the Brady Bunch, and some unknown lady promoting Time-Life music collection: The ’70’s – which is a compilation of the famous (one-hit-wonders or otherwise) songs of the era (“American Pie”; “You’re So Vain”; and other stuff, which I never – but should have – realized were 70’s music). Does anyone out there actually buy and own those Time-Life music collections? They actually seem pretty good, and, you know, “you can’t get them in stores…” 😉

106.7 Lite FM – non-stop Christmas music, as it has been since before Thanksgiving. My God. It could almost drive me crazy, but I like Christmas music (it’s the only time of year we listen to it anyway). I’ve been singing along with the whole Burl Ives “Have a holly, jolly Christmas” (probably the only chance I hear it outside of the animatronic Rudolph the red-nosed-reindeer special), the John Lennon Christmas song, and the Feliz Navidad song. Heck, I even tolerate listening to Celine Dion (well, actually, I can only stomach so much of her singing O Holy Night).

On more serious notes:

I read this article on Law.com, but was able to pull it up elsewhere (Law.com removed it already from its page) – the trial of a terrible murder attempt of a Asian-American lawyer in Seattle. Kevin Jung was shot by his opposing counsel, an attorney who failed to comply with court orders or meet deadlines, frustrating Jung. Jung now suffers from brain damage and lives at a nursing home. There wasn’t even a denial of the shooting by the defendant – but they’re arguing that he didn’t intend to kill. It appears to be incivility among lawyers (or at least incivility by one lawyer who couldn’t do his job and horribly took it on the lawyer who was doing his job) going to a tragic extreme. The defendant should get what he deserves.

In alphabetical order: the passing of Eugene McCarthy and Richard Pryor. The New York Times also has very extensive obituaries on these two figures. Strange coincidence, I guess.

64 years ago, a day in infamy. The memorial’s not exactly in the greatest of conditions either.

“Nightline” – it really feels schizophrenic:

12/7/05 edition started with Cynthia McFadden covering the terror story (the air marshals shooting the unfortunate passenger, who turned out to be mentally unstable and not a terrorist).

And, then, Martin Bashir does a story on Narnia (the so-called debate about whether C.S. Lewis meant for the Narnia series to convert unsuspecting people to Christianity – umm, come on, I don’t think he was that kind of Christian; Lewis’ own stepson felt that Lewis was not trying to create a good Christian story but thinking that Christians should write good stories), which really could easily be its own episode entirely (Lewis was a complex man, as any man could be).

Indeed, it was jarring to go from Big News Story of the Day to the more human interest stuff so suddenly. A little segue would have helped, but there wasn’t enough time for it (they have to be done in 30 minutes, after all).

And, Bashir closed the night with a look at the Red Cross’ new logo – the Red Crystal, now that the Israeli sister organization and Palestinian sister organization recognize each other (a compromise logo, so that no one has to feel offended by the cross or the crescent or whatnot), creating one Red Something (sorry, Crystal, which looked more like a Diamond, really). That would have been a nice ending, but I felt so awkward about the different tone Bashir brought as compared to what McFadden had (she had an urgent tone, which got too chatty when she interviewed a plane passenger from today’s incident).

It’s just nuts. I want to like Nightline, but when you start the night with one person and end it with someone else – it’s just weird. I preferred it when Nightline used to stick with one voice – whether it was Chris Bury or Michelle Martin or John Donvan sitting in for Ted Koppell or just plain old Ted – it was one voice for the one half hour. Or, if you’re going to have multiple anchors, make them sit next to each other (as tradition would have it), or have the person who opened the night end it.

So, last week had Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, and tonight, was A Charlie Brown Christmas. Aww. Tradition!

I watched the rerun of the first episode of “Commander in Chief” on ABC (House wasn’t on, and I couldn’t get myself to watch “Amazing Race”). Hmm. Looked really interesting. Kyle Secor as Rod, the First Spouse/ex-VP Chief of Staff (clearly frustrated to have lost out on the Chief of Staff job) – he’s always a good choice as an actor. Geena Davis ain’t so bad as President Mackenzie Allen. And, Donald Sutherland, as the Evil Speaker of the House. Ooh, he just oozes with evil. I’m thinking “He can’t become President; he’s Canadian!” (ok, in real life). And, really, can we have too many Sutherlands on tv – “24” returns in a few weeks, and it’ll be Keifer as Jack Bauer, ready to save America (maybe the world this time) again (while again getting through another Worst Day in his life).

I missed “Arrested Development” last night. Shoot. I have to tape the remaining episodes.

The NY Times came up with interesting articles on the hows and whys of ABC’s choice of Bob Woodruff and Elizabeth Vargas as anchors. And, I wonder – will it be “Vargas and Woodruff” or “Woodruff and Vargas”? Daily News’ David Bianculli raised interesting points, too – it’s more than about having two anchors, but about news in the 21st century:

Vargas, meanwhile, acknowledged her achievement in attaining the status of network broadcast-news co-anchor, an honor won by few females in TV history.

“I’m proud to be a woman in this post, which has been such a bastion of maleness,” Vargas said.

Together, they’re new anchors for a new era – an era where the traditional TV audience continues to shrink, and alternative-delivery systems sparkle with allure.

ABC’s announcement promises to work its new co-anchors to the bone, not only by having them anchor separate live versions of “World New Tonight” to three time zones but by having them write daily blogs for the ABC News Web site.

The network also envisions providing outtakes and expanded stories via the Internet, and even breaking some stories before the evening newscast itself – trying to reach viewers at their computers, mobile phones and other digital means.

It all sounds very 2006. NBC already has headed in this direction, with new anchor Brian Williams writing his own diary entries on the Web and “NBC Nightly News” available in its entirety as a streaming download. And with ABC going the double-anchor route, that leaves CBS free to try any direction it wants – one, two, maybe three anchors – without concern about breaking the mold too much.

The obvious and unavoidable truth, though, is that the network evening news format, up to this point, isn’t just a mold. It’s moldy.

Though audience levels have dwindled for the evening newscasts on ABC, CBS and NBC, they’re still exponentially larger than the combined viewers of CNN, Fox News Channel, MSNBC and others. One problem is that the pool of potential anchors with Dan Rather-type gravitas just isn’t there. Another is that the commercial broadcast network newscasts haven’t responded sufficiently, to this point, to the changes around them.

The emphasis on blogs and complementary Internet materials, while sounding very modern and advanced, misses the real focus – a dangerous mistake for a news organization to make.

The networks, communally, messed up decades ago by not strong-arming affiliates into accepting a 60-minute newscast. If they make a similar mistake early in the 21st century, it’ll be to pay more attention to technological bells and whistles instead of providing what they alone have the resources to do best: in-depth coverage that explains as well as reports, that pioneers as well as recycles.

“BBC World News” is the best model out there for serious coverage in a tight TV format. The focus, for ABC and its network competitors, should be squarely on the over-the-air evening newscast. That’s the flagship, the fountain from which all reputations and fortunes spring. Blogs are fun diversions, but the news – and the newscast – is what matters. Now more than ever.

Hmm. Good points – Vargas as a woman (and a woman who has a Puerto Rican background), Bob Woodruff with the appropriate foreign reporting work (and he’s an ex-lawyer!), the age of blogging, and so on. Hopefully, we won’t have a Dan Rather/Connie Chung failure here, but well, this isn’t the Golden Age of Anchormen anymore either.

And, it ain’t the era of “Nightline” anymore.

“Doonesbury” – so this week’s storyline is back to the misadventures of crazy Uncle Duke. I never really cared for Uncle Duke (he’s a little too crazy for me). But, I thought last week’s storyline was quite something – a little bit of everything – humor, sadness, politics and so on. Sure, Alex Doonesbury came to Walden and met up with Jeff and Zipper (reminder to Jeff: Alex is your older half-sister’s daughter; your mom’s granddaughter; your half-niece! You can’t date her!; Zipper though think she’s his future wife – ah, the infatuation of crazy kids) – and it remains unclear if she actually sat in on classes (Walden College still has classes? I thought it lost its accreditation because they dropped grade curves to maintain student retention, or whatever other crazy stunt the President of Walden College did to keep his school running); Jeff and Zipper certainly don’t bother attending classes; Jeff’s still on his way to being a CIA agent who will have to torture people; and B.D. refuses to talk to Mike about the alcohol and other problems.

The Doonesburys’ visit to Walden, ended really somber last Saturday – with Sam, B.D. and Boopsie’s daughter, telling Alex, Mike’s daughter, that she’s getting scared of B.D. See, B.D. – the Iraq War veteran/amputee – has serious post-traumatic stress syndrome, such that he woke up with nightmares and once punched Boopsie. It’s scaring Sam – she feels her daddy will hit her next. Anything sets B.D. off. But, Sam tells Alex to not tell anyone this. Alex: “I won’t.” The next panel shows Mike and B.D. listening to the girls (is B.D. really listening?) – Sam: “Swear to God?” Alex: “Swear to God.” B.D.’s looking away, Mike’s glancing at him. Mike has the look of Grave Concern. Boopsie had asked him to get B.D. to go to the VA for help. B.D. has yet to end the paranoia though. Can he find a way to maintain a life again? Can Mike help? This is a storyline to watch.

Thanks for the birthday wishes, guys! I’m a year older, no more wiser!

Channel 13 is broadcasting “A Walk Through the Bronx” with David Hartman and Barry Lewis. I think the only borough they haven’t done now is Staten Island. (I missed the first half hour, so I’ll have to watch it another time! – but great stuff — if this doesn’t make you a PBS member, well, who am I say? Ok, I’m stepping off the soapbox now ;-)).

ABC has announced the new anchors of World News Tonight – Elizabeth Vargas and Bob Woodruff. Familiar ABC faces who are pretty professional and have been substituting for Peter Jennings, so the transition won’t be bad (please don’t change the theme song like you did to Nightline!). In their 40’s, so there’s time to groom them (and I believe they’re contemporaries of Brian Williams, so he won’t be the lonely kid on the block). And with having two, you can let one go once it seems like the American audience likes one more than the other (sort of what I’m hoping they’ll do to Nightline, because having three “anchors” is a pain; but maybe having two will be interesting? There hasn’t been two anchors on the air on nightly national news since MacNeil/Lehrer were both on). Sorry to Charles Gibson, who had rotated with Woodruff and Vargas in substituting for Jennings; Gibson’s only disadvantage was his age (you can’t groom a guy who’s doesn’t need the grooming, but then again, your audience won’t age with him if he’s already older than them). Well, good luck to Bob and Liz. Brian’s got the lead, so step on it!

And, speaking of Brian Williams – I have to say, NBC Nightly News’ Daily Nightly Blog is a fascinating piece of work. You get the behind the scenes look of the crafting of the news; Brian Williams has a nice voice (and his team seem like decent people, not just professional journalists). Is this the wave of the future – network news going the blog route? Hmm. (Personally, I remember the days back when Brian Williams was our local Channel 2 WCBS anchor man. So weird to realize that he’s made it quite big).

I’m almost up to date on “Grey’s Anatomy” on ABC. I like it more than “Desperate Housewives,” in that I actually like the characters on “Grey’s Anatomy.” (they’re a bunch of lunatics on “Desperate Housewives,” which is – I suppose – the point).

Wikipedia has to make a change… when Anonymous posts that John Seigenthaler, Sr., was behind the JFK assasination (which is ridiculous), it’s entirely understandable that Seigenthaler would want Wikipedia to change its rules on who posts what.

More snow…