Sock and Bull: Jena Six

I've got an article coming out regarding the Jena Six fiasco, and I have got to say that the stupidity blatant in it is astounding considering we're in the year 2007. I'd expect this kind of situation in, say, as early as 1989, but come on! Shouldn't we, as a society, be beyond this kind of racial crap? We have enough to deal with when it comes to unwarranted racial prejudice with the entire radical muslim faction, that actually does pose a threat with their crazy suicide bombings, giving a bad name to the perfectly normal, friendly, non-threatening muslims, but now we have to go back to a "classic" race issue? My god. I admit that people like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton are borderline nutjobs that seem more like bad cartoon characters than upstanding role models...well I just said that to express my opinion of them, but we should totally be beyond hating black people because their skin is darker than ours. There's plenty of other reasons to hate people other than skin color; their's stupidity, offensive behavior, talking on a cellphone during a movie or while driving, kicking puppies, kicking kittens, attitude, their personality....so many more understandable things. I mean, I myself am a racist against people who kick kittens and puppies. That's just not cool.

Sock and Bull: Dead Tree Edition

The first issue of the semester came out today! Woo! All that layout work and writing, compressed into paper...there's quite a feeling that goes with that.
I did have a serious failing I think on a news story that's been delayed. The lack of photographs and some direction on the story in question worries me, but I have some more time to work on it now and get the damn photo. Now I need to work on getting another opinion piece idea. How can I really follow up the response and awesomeness that was the last article (Whose DREAM is it really? for anyone who bothered to visit the Solano Tempest.) Eh, I'll figure it out.
And maybe I have. Jena 6 is a hot topic of much debate, even on this campus!

Random thought of the day: I hereby will refer to this blog as "the blargh" when in the newsroom.

Sock and Bull: The Mission Statement

So this entire Blog was the brainchild of...not me. It's the brainchild of the Advisor of the Solano Tempest, Mary Mazzocco, plus the other students.
Solano Tempest is the Solano Community College newspaper put out by the Journalism 60 (website: www.solanotempest.net, but you probably won't click the link. You wuss.)
Apparently I'm a very opinionated person...who would've thought? So much so the idea came up for me to write a blog! Well, who am I to say no?

One of the reasons that I, in particular, was singled out for this is due to the fact I'm not very tolerant of bull. It's one thing to joke around, but to try and pull/say some crock & bull stunts makes me want to sock someone in the face. My opinions are very plain and not particularly complicated most of the time; I like what I like and I hate what I hate.

So the mission statement of Sock and Bull is simply this: to tell it how I feel. Not having a good day laying out the paper? You'll see a nice blog about it and there might even be some cursing! Trying to do a story and the sources are being incompetent, blithering, raging wankers? Right here! Maybe some previews of opinion pieces I'll be writing will be up here too. Who knows! We'll just have to see what's what.