Derek Scruggs

I’m not a fan of Mitt Romney, but this is my candidate for simultaneously dumbest and most biased headline of the day:
Mike Huckabee Opts Not to Talk About Mitt Romney’s Mormon Faith

Over the last couple years I’ve written (I think) four letters to the editors of the Denver Post and Rocky Mountain News. Most recently I wrote one last week in response to this letter. Today they printed it. That makes three out of the four that have made it to publication. Woo hoo!
As an aside, […]

For the last year or so there’s been a ton of articles about how MySpace, YouTube etc is creating a new generation of narcissistic exhibitionist teens who put it all out there and wait for the pedophiles to come knocking. On one hand, I agree that many teens may not know what they’re getting into […]

Today we (Enthusiast Group) made our first site live. It’s not a launch per se, more of an early beta version. (Does that word even mean anything any more?) We have several features still in the pipeline and there are doubtless many bugs still to be ironed out. As a matter of fact, I just […]

When a newspaper or other publication makes a mistake, they typically run a correction a day or two later in a section of the paper that no one ever reads. Usually it’s out of context: the reader probably no longer has the original story at hand, so they can’t re-evaluate what they read in light […]

The  blogosphere has been abuzz of late about Google’s apparent caving in to the Chinese government’s request that they censor their search results. I’m of mixed feelings about this. Being radically moderate and having spent time in China, I think it’s silly to have a binary view of how things should be done there. (Though […]

Interesting that:

The Rocky Mountain News runs a letter from Ward Churchill’s brother Dan Debo on publisher John Temple’s blog, not the editorial page (though it may still run there)
Such an apparently lefty, alternative-type person as Dan Debo goes to the mainstream media, not blogs, to get his opinion out

Beside the fact that he’s […]