70 results for "Jack Ohman"
Speeches when the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge finally opens
Monday, May 20, 2013 at 5:14 PMFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE. MEDIA CONTACT: ASSEMBLY SPEAKER STEVE GLAZER REMARKS BY DIGNITARIES AT SAN FRANCISCO/OAKLAND BAY BRIDGE OPENING
The meaning of Star Trek and life...
Friday, May 17, 2013 at 6:05 PMToday I posted a blog item about Star Trek. My gosh, there are a lot of Trekkies out there, and I offended every single one of them. It wasn't my intention, exactly. What I meant was that our society gets fixated on a television program (u...
Somebody please explain Star Trek to me...
Thursday, May 16, 2013 at 5:59 PMBeing the youthful Baby Boomer that I am, I am young enough not to remember key Boomer Moments (Mercury program), but old to enough to sense that something was going on in space flight at the time (Gemini program). Oh, and Star Trek. I never...
In cartooning, Kings basketball, and politics, there are no final victories...
Wednesday, May 15, 2013 at 5:08 PMUsually in a 35-year career, it is not common to do something you hadn't done before in some form or another, but today I did something I had never done before. I did a follow-up cartoon using virtually the same template I had done previou...
The Kings, a new arena, and the cool things about Sacramento...
Tuesday, May 14, 2013 at 4:11 PMAs it is becoming increasingly clear that the Kings will stay in Sacramento and get a new downtown arena, this community will now have to find something else to obsess about. I've lived in quite a few different major cities and states, and I...
Benghazigate, IRSgate, and Watergate: Can we all close the -gate on this phrase?
Monday, May 13, 2013 at 5:19 PMI'm not sure what the news media used to say before Watergate (c) (formerly an oddly-designed apartment building and now a catch-all phrase for any public policy malfeasance) happened. I was around at the time Watergate happened, was...
In our news media/Twitter culture, I still miss Walter Cronkite...
Friday, May 10, 2013 at 5:47 PMYesterday I wrote about the subject of "nothing is going on" in the news, which got me to thinking about how it is now when something is going on. Something huge. We've had a few major stories in the past few weeks, the Boston Ma...
When news is slow, the news media turn to the birds and bees...
Thursday, May 9, 2013 at 6:00 PMYesterday, we had a young student from Sacramento City College in to visit our editorial board. She asked a number of interesting questions, which we all answered as best we could. One of the responses involved the concept of having to produce c...
The California dream - a good day at the DMV
Wednesday, May 8, 2013 at 4:23 PMOne of the few things I've been dreading about living in California is going to the Department of Motor Vehicles. As an owner of several motor vehicles, and a trailer (yes, I own a trailer), I knew that standing in line at the DMV (IN CALIFO...
Jack Ohman's blog: Gov. Jerry Brown plays craps with language
Tuesday, May 7, 2013 at 5:04 PMPeople are always saying that politicians never talk straight, and that they're mealy-mouthed and never say what they actually think. For the most part, they're right.
