“It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.” ~~~ Abraham Lincoln “The virtue of some people consists wholly in condemning the vices in others.” ~~~ Herbert Samuel SECOND UPDATE BELOW: 11/27/10, 7:47 PM The right turn of a phrase, short and succinct, can convey more than a thousand [...]
Posts Tagged ‘homeless’
Journaliste Sombre
Posted: November 26, 2010 by Rodger Jacobs in Las Vegas Sun, Le Journaliste ColoreTags: homeless, Katie Euphrat, Las Vegas, Las Vegas Sun, Rodger Jacobs, The Great Recession, The New Homeless
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Updates from the World Wide Web …
Posted: September 9, 2010 by Rodger Jacobs in Boil Some WaterTags: homeless, I Run From Bears, Katie Euphrat, Las Vegas, Las Vegas Sun, Newsvine, Rodger Jacobs, The New Homeless, writers
Newsvine, a site that appears to be an online news aggregator, has picked up part one of my story in the Las Vegas Sun (part two is now scheduled to run Sunday, September 26), and garnered the sort of comments that you will not hear within the hollow confines of Southern Nevada: When I was [...]
Maud Newton Via Twitter …
Posted: September 4, 2010 by Rodger Jacobs in Boil Some WaterTags: homeless, homeless in Las Vegas, Maud Newton, recession, Rodger Jacobs, writers
It doesn’t get any more succinct and to-the-point than writer Maud Newton’s Twitter feed on August 30: Nevada writer Rodger Jacobs is ill, can’t find work, may end up homeless. Tea Partiers rage in comments below his story http://bit.ly/anWQqt 8:40 AM Aug 30th via web Retweeted by 2 people Reply Retweet maudnewton Maud Newton
Celeste Fremon at Witness L.A. Covers the Story
Posted: August 30, 2010 by Rodger Jacobs in Boil Some WaterTags: Celeste Fremon, homeless, Las Vegas, recession, Rodger Jacobs, writers
I sent Celeste an e-mail and a link to the LV Sun article early this morning: Rodger Jacobs, a wonderfully erudite, warm and funny California writer, author and documentary producer is teetering on the edge of homelessness and is frightened of what life will hold if he falls off that edge—a possibility that, at the [...]
Mark Noonan Weighs In …
Posted: August 30, 2010 by Rodger Jacobs in Boil Some WaterTags: homeless, Las Vegas, Las Vegas Sun, Mark Noonan, Rodger Jacobs, The New Homeless
Wanna-be politico Mark Noonan weighs in on my article in the Las Vegas Sun at his website, Noonan For Nevada, with an Op-Ed he calls The Decaying Welfare State: Mr. Jacobs is legion in this country. There are probably tens of millions of Americans situated just like him. Not quite willing or able to do [...]
