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...
2 Cases, 2 Outcomes : Scary Doodles v. Iraq War Contractors
No, the cases are not related. But they are both worthy of note, and both striking—and not...
20 Questions (and Truly Deep Thoughts)
FishbowlLA has a regular feature called “20 Questions,“ and today the person answering...
The Rise of the Upstarts?
In Sunday’s New York Times, Franch Rich has an interesting analysis about the so-called...
For Once the City Does it Right
I just finished grappling with my latest 30-plus-page writing turn-in deadline for my Bennington...
A New Skirmish in the Gitmo Wars
Today’s papers are loaded with articles and opinions about yesterday’s SCOTUS hearings...
Head Scarves & 1 in 31 Adults
I have nothing sensible to say about the pathetic and desperate young Nebraska man who, believing...
Malibu Uses Fires to Go NIMBY
I’m a thousand times more sympathetic than most to the need to keep a tight control on access...
Hillary and the 20,000 Felons
Why are so many progressives unhappy at the thought of Hillary Clinton becoming the Democratic...
David Brewer’s PR-gate
Okay, perhaps the situation doesn’t warrant a “gate.” Maybe...
Huckabee: the Sequel
name="wmode" value="transparent"> It’s definitely been a Huckabee week in the press. The...
Two Americas….Three Decades of Injustice
On Wednesday night, Mitt Romney made a point of taking potshots at John Edwards for Edwards’...