Iraqi interpreter masking identity, photo by Ann Scott Tyson When the first phase of the war in...
Polar Bears (Oh, My!) and That Disingenuous Rat, Dirk Kempthorne
It’s endangered species day. (No, I don’t know why our lawmakers spend time declaring...
Equality Wins!
In a decision that hearkened back to the 1948 opinion overturning the prohibition against...
California Parks Rescued As Other Programs Are Trashed
Arnold Schwarzenegger’s newest budget cuts are huge blows. There are cuts to foster care...
Grief and Politics
Thursday, New York Times Bureau Chief Jennifer Steinhauer, wrote a good round up of the...
Obama, Crime, Republicans and Race
This morning’ Bloomberg has an article about how, if Obama does indeed get the Democratic...
Charter Schools Tell LAUSD to Fork Over the Seats – UPDATED
UPDATE: I HAVE NO IDEA HOW I MANAGED TO TURN OFF THE COMMENTS ON THIS POST, BUT THEY’RE BACK...
Locke High School & Green Dot: After the Explosion
Working. Back with more posting later this morning. In the meantime…. After Friday’s...
Jamiel Shaw and gangs
Here’s how it works: It isn’t always if you’re a member of a gang…. ...
Crusade of the 6th Graders
I’m at a death penalty conference. More on that later. But in the meantime…...
The Murderer, the Prosecutor, the Stripper…..and the Supremes
It is a dramatic legal story….but with a twist. And it’s a hell of a twist having to...
Helping Burma
Disaster aid for Burma isn’t easy because the government is not exactly outsider-friendly. ...
Web Gremlins
Apologies to all those who found the site down today. As it happens, I was working on something...
DRUDGE CALLS IT
So, what does he know that we don’t know? Or is he just being gutsy? (And, well...
North Carolina and Indiana…..Barack Back On His Game
Obama’s found his voice again and he’s got a new musical refrain… Instead of Yes...
Obama, Clinton and the Perils of “Gameshow Journalism”
Barack Obama has had a very unpleasant April says Andrew Tyndall of the Tyndall report. Well...
The New “5 W’s” of Market-Driven News
As a companion to the story above about Game Show journalism, I thought you’d enjoy reading...
LAUSD’S Pricey Arts Palace
In case you missed Steve Lopez’s column yesterday, it’s a good one. Here’s how...