Comments on: Ranting on Ranting….

By: Jack B.

Jack B. — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 19:19:00 +0000

Alameda’s new good ole boy network.

By: Sam

Sam — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 17:42:26 +0000

Thanks for confirming the tag team relationship.
Always the cheap retort to criticsm: “love it or leave it.”
And, if he submits pieces like the above for publication, he won’t have a column for very long.

By: Jeff Mitchell

Jeff Mitchell — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 17:36:43 +0000

John: With all due respect, you’re killin’ me here. Lauren’s a big girl who can easily defend herself against some our kooky friends and neighbors. Providing it doesn’t get too personal or abusive, we should all remember that the open marketplace of ideas that we treasure is often a rough and tumble place. Some comments are going to be well reasoned and researched. Others not so much. Either way, the total discourse we have as a community on the local blogosphere is a good thing. My humble and respectful suggestion to you — as one of the smartest dudes I know living on our Island — is to use your blog to express your own ideas on how we can make our city a better place to live and work. I’m far more interested in that than anything else.

By: Lauren Do

Lauren Do — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 19:01:38 +0000

Hmm…an interesting assessment. Considering that between the author of this blog and commenter number one, the blog author is the only one with a monthly column in a traditional print medium, the Alameda Journal.

The internet is a vast space, if don’t like what you are reading, there are so many options available. Why bother with “rambling, unfocused rants” when you instead can read succinct, focused rants elsewhere?

By: Sam

Sam — Sat, 31 May 2008 19:51:40 +0000

It appears that the goal of this long-winded rant is to have tag-team support for a fellow blogger. As you point out, Lauren Do’s “blog has singlehandedly changed public discourse in Alameda over the past three years.” Quite right.

We used to ponder opinions on civic matters by reading newspaper editorials, guest opinions and letters to the editor. Now we’re able to waste time reading rambling, unfocused rants such as yours that no print media editor would ever accept for publication.

Also, it’s sad that your frame of reference is the theater project. Get over it, John. It’s all in your head.