CONTROVERSIAL LAPD CHIEF DARYL GATES DIES He was the LAPD chief lots of us loved to hate, and was...
Archive - April 2010
The ALA’s List of Top 10 Most Challenged Books (OMG!)
For the past 20 years, the American Library Association has collected reports of book challenges...
PA 12-year-old Could be Youngest Lifer Kid
A 12-year-old Pennsylvania boy is to be tried for the murder of his soon-to-be stepmother and her...
Life Imprisonment for Forcing Ta-Ta-Touching
First let me stipulate that forcing or luring children into any kind of sexual actions with adults...
Congress, Financial Reform & The Inside Job
While Congress argues over financial reform, with the fights inevitably fracturing along partisan...
Wednesday’s Fresh Picks
CSU STUDENTS GO DUMPSTER DIVING AND FIND SHREDS OF PALIN CONTRACT CONTROVERSY… It all started...
Treme
Just a note in passing, David Simon and Eric Overmyer’s new HBO series, Treme, about...
Introducing LA County’s 100 Kid, $1.1 Million Gang Plan
Last Tuesday, the LA County Board of Supervisors approved the county’s long-awaited gang...
On Which Way LA? Monday Night
I’m on Warren Olney’s Which Way LA tonight, Monday, on KCRW, 89.9, along with the...
Patt Morrison Talks to Greg Boyle About….Lots of Things
LA Times’ (and KPCC’s) Patt Morrison did an interview with Father Greg Boyle regarding...