February 5, 2008
Extra Extra: No, We're Not Trying to Turn You Vegetarian
- Lots of young people got their voter registration cards in on time.
- Worker fired from Austin's Pixeldust Interactive destroys websites and sends email from boss' email address.
- News?: Door-to-door magazine salesmen harassing Austinites.
- Farmer's Branch city leaders sued over their anti-(illegal) immigrant ordinance.
- TxDOT's license plate voting site crashed in its first 30 minutes yesterday. Over 75,000 have voted so far for the
fuglyvarious designs. - Meat from abused cows in California sent to Round Rock and possibly Austin schools.
- Some fish harvested near a marine sanctuary in the NW Gulf of Mexico could cause extreme food poisoning.
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I am sure it was an oversight, but don't you mean to say the Farmers Branch ordinance is anti-illegal immigrants?
Urm, yes, that's what I meant.
Then why haven't you changed your misleading headline? You've had 10 hours from the time of your comment to the time of mine? Unless you're trying to mislead people on purpose?!
It's a good time to be a vegetarian.
I see how illegal immigration causes problems, but the more rabid proponents of "send 'em all packing and arrest anybody that helps 'em" kind of ordinances like this one do come off as cold-hearted and anti-immigration. Why not make it easy and cheap to become a US citizen? Then they can be spied on, over-taxed, and underpaid like the rest of us. Still, the tag line is misleading, and I would change it, however begrudgingly.
Speaking of journalistic peaves, I wish people would stop saying "tens of thousands." Even NPR does it--do you mean ten thousand or ninety thousand, guys? Be specific!
(Elizabeth S., you changed it.) (But something still isn't right.) (I just can't seem to put my finger on it....)