Ken Stone
Retired journalist formerly with Times of San Diego. Masters track blogger and slow sprinter who enjoys reading and taking naps. #RadicalLeftScum
- So climate alarmism is dead? Check back in a few years.
- My suggestion for motto: “What, me worry?”
- Jeff Bezos Changes Washington Post’s Slogan To ‘Love You, Babe’ After Getting Into Fight With Lauren Sánchez theonion.com/jeff-bezos-changes-…
- Looks like I’ll never be quoted in a @washingtonpost.com sports story again (as I was in 2010): www.washingtonpost.com/archive/spor...
- Now the U-T has more photojournalists (3) than the @washingtonpost.com. Also U-T has a sports section and WaPo not.
- My @huffpost.com weird news writer friend (David Moye of La Mesa) found this crazy “Melania” item: www.huffpost.com/entry/amazon...
- Geeze, guys! Don’t give them any ideas! theonion.com/ice-agent-sc...
- Every new review is more damning than the previous. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/o...
- San Diego Gun Owners PAC leader: "The same way our organization’s members would face prosecution if we were in this situation, the officer who shot Pretti should not be immune to the legal system." timesofsandiego.com/opinion/2026...
- Best part of @andrewdyer.bsky.social report on Imperial County fretting over Bovino return is interview with Calipatria’s mayor (age 21) who sounds like our own AOC. Kid has a future. He’s 3:30 into this video: youtu.be/wH_Vr_ANXvs
- Temps were in low 70s Sunday afternoon when Chris and I hiked beach at La Jolla Shores during one of year's biggest low tides, capturing a green flash at sunset. Apologize to your right coast friends. youtu.be/wzoJ_nikuM4
- Then Trump billed Lemon $10 billion for the key.
- My faves.
- Oscar for political ad?
- “I swear, if one of the job requirements for being in ICE was to spend a significant amount of time in an ELD classroom, there would be no ICE.” timesofsandiego.com/opinion/2026...
- Hang from a bar for 3 minutes? Try this at age 81. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/w...
- Saw this ad on @colbertlateshow.bsky.social airing Thursday. Hope @universityofkansas.bsky.social rakes in residuals.
- But aren’t movies meant to make audience think: “So glad my life is so much happier”? www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
- Adds to her legend. www.facebook.com/groups/track...
- From Doug Porter’s Substack: “Sooner or (much) later, they’ll get around to pipsqueaks like local writers Kate Morrissey, Brad Willis, and myself.” @bgirledukate.bsky.social @daylightsdnews.bsky.social
- Arizona-based Knife Rights Inc. loses appeal in 9th Circuit case in which group argued (in San Diego court) that California’s switchblade laws were unconstitutional. cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/op...
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- White journalists are OK, however.
- Wish I were fly on the wall of Oval Office with video capability.
- “Mr. Pretti was a gun owner and a carry permit holder, but that does not absolve him of personal responsibility, nor does it make him immune to following the law. We will not be your proxy. Do not use the (2A) community as a political weapon against ICE/Border Patrol.” sdrostra.com/statement-fr...
- Always a local angle: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/b...
- Next thing you know, voting will be legal!
- Good for our old San Diego cardinal: www.thelettersfromleo.com/p/a-profound...
- Mark your calendar for April 9 — Local News Day. localnewsday.org/get-involved/
- "Melania" tickets are hot, hot, hot! Not. Here are seats reserved at Parkway Plaza theater in El Cajon as of 4:50 p.m. Thursday for Friday's debut.
- But your computer and mobile devices will be seized.
- Probably just baby oil. (San Diego-based company)
- Side hustle? asuep.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/NEWSWELL/job...
- Any fed opposed to this?
- Art contest at San Diego federal court: "Submit your original artwork to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness, a juried exhibition focused on the unalienable rights recited in the Declaration of Independence." www.casd.uscourts.gov/more/call-fo...
- Oldie but goodie feom Laurie Black: "Superman was immune to krypton; a Teflon president will eventually melt under the weight of Truth." timesofsandiego.com/opinion/2017...
- Wife heard that a rare Mandarin duck was spotted at Santee Lakes. We found it Monday afternoon (but not Tuesday morning). What a beauty. (Also shot other waterfowl.) youtu.be/dJQUln-RcUs
- All 4 San Diego Dems want Noem impeached. www.newsfromthestates.com/article/here...
- Second message (which I got first) was suspicious, so I wrote the PR lady at her website address and got reply about email scam.
- Bovino as Hitler — being sent back to El Centro: bsky.app/profile/tom....
