Everyone is busy setting goals and agendas for Barack Obama. (And there will likely be some coming...
UPDIKE 1932 – 2009: Rabbit At Rest
A giant of literature. Although, along with Roth and Mailer, he has been one of the dominant...
Warning: Construction Zone
Today WitnessLA is being migrated from one host to another that better serves our needs so please...
Pitt Bulls and Rottweilers and Gangsters, Oh My! – UPDATED
Monday on the LA Times animal blog there is a story that manages to combine a holy trinity of ...
Obama, Truth-Telling & Gaza
As you’ll note, this time all the Sunday/Monday Must Reads (and a must see) are on the same...
A Birthday Gift for Edith
Activists take lead roles to reopen Burke’s failed monument I long ago gave up any hope that...
Jerry Brown Says Prop 8 Not Constitutional. Period.
I’m in DC for the rest of the week, but as Washington embraces its new president (and the...
Inauguration ’09 – THE DAY IT HAPPENED
Two million people–actually more, I’m sure of it—were in it together. On...
Inauguration ’09 – Monday Night
Monday in D.C. people threw shoes at the White House. Other people marched for Martin Luther...
Inauguration ’09 – Monday
It is Monday in Washington, DC, and I have coat envy. I flew in last night after ten intense days...
Media Propaganda: L.A. CityBeat vs. L.A. Weekly*
Can this paper last a full term? *Who cares? Move on! I’m not one to obsess over the recent...
The Times: Failing Four-Year-Old Roberto and Us
Four-year-old Roberto Lopez is the latest symbol of a dying newspaper. The little boy was shot and...
The Dishonest & Pernicious Myths RE: Immigrants and Crime
I’m still in my Vermont literary bubble (and Alan is still MIA but will turn up soon, he...
Plush Prison Hospitals?
The SF Examiner just ran an article that characterizes the new construction requested by the draft...
A MORTAGE-RELATED MUST READ….and an Update on Alan
Hi everyone. Alan has had computer issues. (There was the little matter of the coffee spillage...
Off to Vermont…..Alan Mittelstaedt Steps Brilliantly Into the Breach!
I’m taking off today for Bennington College in Vermont where it is very, very, very...
Did the LAPD Try To Get a Coroner to Change the Facts?
Arrrrrgggghhh. I hate stories like this one. The LA Times’ Joel Rubin has written a very...
The Non-Harmonizing Voices of the Gaza Demonstrations
As most of you are aware, there was another demonstration about the situation in Gaza yesterday. ...