Happy Fourth?

"To be completely fair, I don't have a ton of actual facts to contribute to the debate. I only did 15 minutes of research for this column -- and approximately two-thirds of that time was spent watching some dude on YouTube blow up a sand castle with an M-80."

Yeah, that's typical Peter Hartlaub. With all the layoffs at the Chron, how is it that he and Mark Morford still have jobs?