How do you deal with what you read and learn in your local newspaper? My household has subscribed to the San Francisco Chronicle <\/a> for years. For a while, one of my housemates also subscribed to The New York Times<\/i> -- which I much prefered but found to be too expensive. I typically read The Chronicle over breakfast. If I'm out of the house for breakfast, I don't tend to read the paper that day -- the Chronicle is almost always a morning-only companion for me. I sometimes wonder whether this means that reading the Chronicle is mostly a waste of time -- like channel surfing or mindless web browsing. <\/p>\n Still, I learn stuff when I read the paper. And they certainly provoke various reactions in me.<\/p>\n Articles that make me think that I should watch my bank very closely: Banks defeat privacy bill yet again \/ Speier vows to put stricter measure on state ballot<\/a> and Wells dishing out bank data<\/a><\/p>\n Article that makes me think that the current administration is really as bad as I have suspected: An article that makes me want to organize a group of friends to go to the Oakland museums: Powerful glimpses of black history in Oakland exhibition<\/a><\/p>\n Something that helps me think about what I can do for the many homeless in Berkeley: John Carroll's Well, sure, a house can be a home<\/a>, about the Berkeley Food and Housing Project<\/p>\n A techno-lust inducing piece: Handspring unveils Treo 600 handheld \/ Wireless device to be available in the fall<\/a><\/p>\n Forcing myself to respond to what I read, I hope, redeems some of my morning time. (But isn't it just enough that I have fun reading the Datebook<\/a>?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" How do you deal with what you read and learn in your local newspaper? My household has subscribed to the San Francisco Chronicle for years. For a while, one of my housemates also subscribed to The New York Times — … Continue reading
\nE. J. Dionne's Framing the issue<\/a> and the lastest column by Robert Scheer<\/a>: \"What Did He Know and When Did He Know It?\" (no permalink yet)<\/p>\n