Coffee and the Sunday 'Bune, C-J.

It’s a relentlessly rainy Sunday morning here in NA, and a news day so slow that televised Texas Hold ‘Em, Hot Wheels collectibles and the collected works of Councilman Cappuccino (both pages) are beginning to seem worthy by comparison.

Tribune managing editor Chris Morris devotes today’s editorial slot to the anniversary of his 1985 hiring by the ‘Bune, and a remembrance of his twenty years of service.

NA Confidential congratulates Chris. We’d happily link readers to his autobiographical piece if it were possible, but alas, the ‘Bune persists in its unwillingness to archive editorials and commentaries on line.

Unfortunately, as noted previously in this space, the ‘Bune’s scattershot approach to cyberspace remains an annoyance for those of us who would like to point on-line readers to the newspaper’s content.

As is the case with editorials and commentaries, not enough of the ‘Bune’s daily content is posted on its web site, and the three news stories that typically do make it to the Internet are subject to a Byzantine update schedule seemingly determined by the random spin of the wheel.

Meanwhile, things are heating up across the Ohio in Louisville, with Sunday Courier-Journal coverage devoted to the arena debate, Kentucky’s abysmal statewide health statistics and the metro council’s tabling of a proposed comprehensive smoking ban:

Spectacle of dishonor, a Courier-Journal editorial (short shelf life for C-J links).

Here’s an excerpt:

Three days after the Louisville Metro Council's decision to table any vote on a smoking ban, we're still reeling at the hypocrisy and duplicity that were on display in the chamber.

And no, NA Confidential didn’t write this paragraph …