Claremont Insider: Claremont on the Web

Wednesday, November 14, 2007

Claremont on the Web

In the past few days, we have run across web presences for two members of the Claremont community.

John Seery, a professor at Pomona College, was mentioned here two weeks ago as having weighed in on the 2005 Claremont school board election. If memory serves, he was also a signer of a 2003 letter from "Residents United for Claremont", supporting, if only by implication, the re-election of Karen Rosenthal and Al Leiga to City Council. This letter was the stalking horse for the 2005 Preserve Claremont campaign.

We see that he posts frequently on the Huffington Post. His posts lean rather decidedly to the left, and may not be everyone's cup of tea. But amid the barely-contained academic anger is the occasional entertaining gem. This post on Al Gore is one that almost everyone can appreciate and enjoy.

His turnoffs: Bill Kristol. Or see another post on Kristol here. Don't mention Bill Kristol to him or Professor Seery might go completely mental.

* * *

Guy Whitney, as we hear it a fairly recent arrival and refugee from Katrina, is offering his services around Claremont as a masseur, computer consultant, and purveyor of Wiccan goods. His alter-ego is the Witch Poet. Click on the links for:
Massage
Computers
Wiccan Goods
(Gotta love those "adult humor" witch goods; it gets pretty zany in the coven)
Poetry

We realize that these pursuits, as well, may not be everyone's cup of tea. Everything in this post is presented with the goal of better understanding the rich diversity of our community blah blah.