Before we get to some of the high points from 2007, let’s look at seven of the bad, sad...
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Season of Lists: 5 People I’d Rather See as Person of the Year
On Wednesday, Time Magazine named Vladimir Putin its Person of the Year because of Putin’s...
The Politics of Cops and Money – UPDATED
UPDATE: It seems I’m going to be on Patt Morrison’s radio show regarding this issue at...
Season of Lists – Books You Must Read According to Tod Goldberg (and his friends)
Today I’m taking a break and letting my list-friendly novelist/blogger pal, Tod Goldberg...
Season of Lists: 10 Christmas Songs that Do Not Involve Josh Groban
No, not all holiday musical offerings found at the top of Amazon’s sales list at this time of...
Season of Lists: 9 LA Writers Cast Prez Candidates As Fictional Characters
My extremely smart and funny fiction-writer friend, Tod Goldberg has a thing he does every year on...
Antonio Unified School District
Yesterday evening I was on Warren Olney’s Which Way LA talking about the mayor’s school...
When Are You Getting Out of Prison? Heck, Dude, Beats Us!
Just when you think there can’t possibly be a more jaw-dropping bureaucratic screw-up than...
The Mayor and His Would-Be Clusters
Tuesday, the parents and teachers of three LAUSD high schools and some of the middle schools that...
Drugs…..and Sanity
Finally, finally, finally the Feds have made a truly sane choice when it comes to the crack/powder...