Blogger, 64, bound for Iraq

[Newsjock]

Source: San Francisco Chronicle

Jane Stillwater is a 64-year-old Berkeley woman who left for Kuwait on Wednesday, hoping to embed with the U.S. military there and in Iraq as a blogger. And if she is refused? She's got a sleeping bag and plans to sleep on the beach in Kuwait until her return flight in three weeks.

Protection? A Berkeley city councilman tried in vain to get her some body armor; she's accepting online donations through PayPal so she can buy some in Kuwait.

Credentials? The military said the prolific blogger needs to be sponsored by a media outlet. No problem: The Lone Star Iconoclast, a 900-circulation liberal weekly in President Bush's vacation getaway of Crawford, Texas, is sponsoring her. Not that they're paying her. Then again, nearly all of the dozens of online columns Stillwater has produced over the past seven years for various publications have been labors of love.

... In her last blog post ( http://www.jpstillwater.blogspot.com ) before she left for Kuwait, Stillwater confronted what could happen next with her usual mix of self-deprecating humor and biting commentary.

Read more: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/03/29/STILLWATER.TMP

[Heidi]

1. Kicked and recommended.

:kick:

[bryant69]

2. I guess she'll find stuff to write about from her sleeping bag

on the beach.

I hope anyway.

Bryant
Check it out --> http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com

[Rhiannon12866]

3. K&R! Great post!

:-)

[librechik]

4. Go Jane! And BTW, SF Chronicle

why don't you pitch in and hire Jane to blog for you too?