More from Lean Dean

I can confirm this.

 

That makes two very talented columnists who have been run off/laid off in the last five years for your IE Singleton properties.

Aside from Oberjuerge (a fellow JEOPARDY champ, BTW), the talented, good guy that is Paul Helms left for the Cal Poly Pomona SID gig. He's now at Cal State LA, with former Sun copy editor/golf writer Mark Reinhiller continuing the exodus and taking his place at CPP.

On top of being a class act, Helms was a damn good voice for Inland Valley sports for several years.

Aside from PaulO, I do feel bad for Louie Brewster. PaulO's analogy in his blog was quite apt. Louie must feel like Capt. Edward Smith going down on the Titanic.

 

So I was reading SportsJournalists.com, and saw a hilarious post by poin (Teacher-Student) dexter . . then buck (baseball savant) weaver joined in and Bird (on the wing) Scribe added his own unique verve to the situation . . . .

I continue to be baffled by the inexorable passing of time, which continues no matter how many trips to Europe I take . . . .

At the Sports and News board, was reading a thread about prostitution when The Good (And Sensitive) Doctor talked about how prostitution is about subjugating women . . . .

Sanity was restored by (Contact) sportschick, who I would agree with about anything as long as it involved seeing those shining eyes of hers . . . .

Days like these remind me of the old days at sportspages.com, that glorious time when I used to see standup people like Anon 3:17 at Sully's watering hole on fifth street . . . . .

What kind of a world do we live in where people no longer talk about things that happened 30 years ago?

 

I'm stunned by the beauty of the raven-haired hostess Suzy Luskin, a junior at Cal State Long Beach, who works weeknights at O'Malley's. Alas, she won't give her digits to a guy whom she's nicknamed, "Grandpa".

 

Let's be clearer: If salary was anywhere near the top of the list of reasons for these layoffs, the names on the list would have been a lot different. No. 3 on your list was No. 1, period.

There were too many part-timers let go, both at LADN the week before and at ours last week, and too many not-making-as-much-as-some-others-in-similar-roles for salary to be the reason. PaulO was not let go because of how much money he made. End of story.

 

The firing gives the lie to the LOCAL, LOCAL mantra Singleton and his people holler.

No one is more local than Paul O on the Inland Empire.

 

I thought he won a game, then blew the Super Bowl question?

 

Brilliant work by the both of you guys.

 

Lean Dean strikes again, and this one is a blockbuster. LA Observed reports editor in chief Ron Kaye will be ousted as soon as today and will be replaced by unnamed NorCal editor in move orchestrated by former DN editor David Butler. Butler is the new SJ Merc editor, but LAO suggests he's Singleton's California Empire shotcaller.