Da svidaniya, comrades!
Moscow proved the undoing for Woodside mother-son duo Toni and Dallas Imbimbo who competed in “The Amazing Race” on CBS-TV. They were expected to be one of the three teams competing for $1 million in the final leg, but their hopes were dashed when Dallas lost their money and passports in a Russian taxi.
Unlike other teams that squabbled under pressure, Toni and Dallas stayed supportive even as they were reduced to begging Muscovites for subway fare while desperately trying to stay in the race. The Imbimbos’ finale spot went to a pair of hapless fraternity brothers, who were soundly thrashed by winning siblings Starr and Nick Spangler.
Enough ink to print this
Menlo Park City Manager Glen Rojas isn’t happy with the editorial that ran in last week’s Almanac, but don’t expect him to fire back.
“We’d rather not get into a confrontation” with “somebody who buys ink by the barrel,” Mr. Rojas said during the City Council meeting Tuesday, Dec. 16, paraphrasing an adage attributed to Mark Twain: “Never pick a fight with a man who buys ink by the barrel.”
The editorial criticized city staff for not adjusting planning fees sooner, and cited errors and “instances of questionable reasoning” in the staff report on the updated fee schedule. Mr. Rojas defended his staff, saying that it’s difficult to avoid the occasional mistake in a long staff report, and that staff corrected errors when it brought the report before the council. He didn’t respond to the arguments posited in the editorial.
If Mr. Rojas had really wanted to lampoon The Almanac, he could have cited another quote often attributed to the famous Mr. Clemens: “If you don’t read the newspaper, you are uninformed; if you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed.”
