Now that California’s education budget is sliding toward the abyss, a local activist asks...
LA Gang Wars IV: Steve Lopez Throws Down
LA Times columnist Steve Lopez has been apologizing a lot in the last 48 hours. Here’s...
LA Gang Wars III: Antonio Finally Sides With Laura
The LA Times and others have been trying to get LA Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa to say whether or not...
What Do You Have To Do To Get Fired Around Here??? – UPDATED
Remember that Assistant principal who made news for his alleged kidnapping and rape of a...
Spitzer and the Creep Factor
I never imagined I’d comment on this...but the latest wrinkle in the story has gotten under...
Missing “The Wire”
Television has never seen a better dramatic series than “The Wire.” Period. The...
The Great LA Gang Wars – Part 2
Okay, when we last left our City Hall squabblers, City Controller Laura Chick and City...
The Great LA Gang Wars
No, I don’t mean the tragic spate of shootings that we’ve seen these past two weeks. I...
It’s 3 am, Your Children are Asleep, and you’ve TiVo’d SNL…
Earlier this week I asked, mostly in jest, if Saturday Night Live planned to stump for Hillary...
Unnecessary Power Outage – UPDATED
Okay, now we have several days of the Samantha Power NON SCANDAL. For those of you who have...
Of Hoaxes and Homeschooling
Perhaps in an effort to regain their raggedy collective dignity regarding the memoir hoax, The New...
Crazy Thursday Shorts
I’ve got a crazy day, but here are a few short takes to chew on: *The ACLU just released this...
The Great USC-UCLA…..POKER Game????
As a break from my recent rants, I thought perhaps y’all would like to see a few sample...
Of Primaries and Hoaxes
For those wishing to briefly distract themselves from the dreary realization that the Democratic...
The White Girl, the Gangs….and the Hoax (on Radio)
I’ll be on Patt Morrison’s KPCC show (89.3 FM) at around 2 pm talking about the story...
The Death of the Football Star
Feeling heartsick, I’ve been obsessively following this story since it broke on the local...
The Three Trillion Dollar War
Today the much-talked about new book by Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz and...
Hope’s Boy
There have been no big reviews in the New York Times, the LA Times or the Washington Post or...