Archives: February, 2006

Mike DeVito — February 21, 2006, 9:06 pm

On the cartoons

You may have noticed that one of the writers over at the PoliBlog, Danny Kampf, has been making posts lately petitioning The Daily Colonial to print the controversial cartoons depicting the key figure of Islam, Muhammad which were originally printed in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten. His argument is that we should do it as a […]

Mike DeVito — February 10, 2006, 10:08 am

No more error reports?

This one comes from… well, a hell of a lot of people, to tell you the truth. Everyone seems to want to know the answer to this simple question:
“Why did you get rid of the ‘Error Report’ feature?”
Simple: It was shamelessly abused.
When I added the Error Report feature about a year ago, I figured it […]

Mike DeVito — February 6, 2006, 2:48 pm

Saying it like it is

Today, I’m going to look at a question sent via email from an anonymous “Concerned Alumni.�
I won’t republish the entire missive, as it is very long and detailed (thank you for that by the way – the more detail you give me, the more specific my answer can be), but the gist of it is […]

Mike DeVito — February 1, 2006, 4:56 pm

Schoolhouse Rock: How a Bill Becomes A Law… err… Staff Editorial

You know, if I could, I’d totally make this one into a cartoon. It has so much potential – I could make a little cartoon Gillian (our opinion editor) and have her dance and sing about how we come up with a staff editorial. And then she could explain conjunctions, as well.
Alas, my superpowers don’t […]