http://blogs.e-rockford.com/editorsnote Back in the old days -- that's less than a decade and before there were such things as blogs and interactive conversations with readers -- editors used to respond to their newspaper readers with an "editor's note." Sometimes it clarified a point made in a letter to the editor. Sometimes it offered a correction. Sometimes it was just a simple explanation. An editor's note was a handful of sentences; maybe a four or five paragraphs. It was always a personal link between the editor and the reader. Only difference between it and today's blog is the immediacy and the platform. Welcome to Editor's Note. Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:36:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Sometimes I just love a tempest in a teapot. Takes my mind off the serious issues I deal with everyday. Occasionally it's fun to get all pseudo-excited about not much. So, when Jeremy's parents took their clothes off in the Zits strip, well, I pulled it, sent nasty-grams to the ... http://blogs.e-rockford.com/editorsnote/2009/11/06/the-clothes-are-back-on/ I just pulled my favorite comic strip, Zits. And, it'll stay pulled until creators Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman put some clothes back on Jeremy's parents. If you don't follow Zits, none of this will matter to you. If you do read Zits, here's why it's gone for now. Seems Scott ... http://blogs.e-rockford.com/editorsnote/2009/11/05/jeremys-parents-are-naked/ When I read this headline, I smiled -- and then I was ashamed. After all, violence is never a good thing and beating up a coworker in the newsroom is the stuff of which firings are made. Here's the headline and the story to go with it: Washington Post's"... Weingarten says ... http://blogs.e-rockford.com/editorsnote/2009/11/04/tossing-a-typewriter-at-a-reporter/ We are never going to learn, so I'd pretty much decided not to run on about this ever again, but then there was last Wednesday morning. There it was, all bright, clean concrete. Another curb cut along the Rockford side of Riverside Boulevard. Oh, I understand why it's there. The small ... http://blogs.e-rockford.com/editorsnote/2009/11/03/another-curb-cut/ Here we are at the end of October with Christmas and New Year's on the horizon. I could sound like a crone and wonder aloud where the heck the year has gotten to. Instead, I went back to December 2008 and dusted off my predictions for 2009. I wrote them ... http://blogs.e-rockford.com/editorsnote/2009/10/29/just-how-good-were-the-2009-predictions/ Today those two Northwest pilots say they were so engrossed in a computer scheduling program that they didn't realize they were past Minneapolis. First they say they weren't sleeping. Then, they weren't arguing. And, now they were immersed in a scheduling program. OK, I'll actually buy that "lost in cyberspace" thing. ... http://blogs.e-rockford.com/editorsnote/2009/10/26/as-alice-might-wonder-curiouser-and-curiouser/ Gee, I hope the seven CEOs can live on $500,000 a year, plus up to $25,000 in perks. Most people I know won't see that kind of dough in 10 years, much less each year. But that's as far as the feds are willing to go with annual compensation for the  ... http://blogs.e-rockford.com/editorsnote/2009/10/22/tightening-belts-at-500000/ On Friday, 87-year-old Maggie was on her tractor mowing grass, pulling the summer plants and planting the fall mums, chopping down the tomatoes and taking the dog to the vet. On Saturday, she was flat on her back in the hospital's stroke wing wondering exactly what truck had squashed her ... http://blogs.e-rockford.com/editorsnote/2009/10/21/medicare-we-should-all-be-so-lucky/ Surely, the reason so many men get caught with their hands in the cookie jar -- and end up in headlines around the world -- is because there are just so many more of them sitting around the board room tables. Maybe if those tables were filled with women and ... http://blogs.e-rockford.com/editorsnote/2009/10/19/is-it-a-guy-thing-or-just-a-result-of-numbers/ U.S. President Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize this morning -- and the naysayers went off the deep end. Even the mildest responses were along the lines of a disbelieving "huh?" Let me offer up another thought: Throughout his campaign, Obama's message was hope-filled. In the months since his November ... http://blogs.e-rockford.com/editorsnote/2009/10/09/have-faith-do-not-despair/