Damon Duvall looks like a middle-aged surfer as he stands in front of the Santa Monica Courthouse leaning against a large, green sign, “A Father Has A Rite [sic] to Parent.
Judging from the reaction to last week’s column, Pat Tillman still resonates nearly six years after his death. The L.A. Times ran an article, “Remembering Pat Tillman on Veterans Day.
This week I had planned on writing about the Clinton-Bush (43) debates to be held in February in New York and Los Angeles. Then I watched a compelling segment on “Meet the Press.
On the road to the Freeway World Series, the Dodgers exited one off-ramp too soon. For the second straight year, they lost the National League Championship to the Phillies, four games to one.
Last week I debated writing about serious local, state, national and international world issues, but frankly they were too depressing. Take California for instance (before the state goes in a big garage sale).
Two types of people in Los Angels could identify with the newly released DVD, the romantic comedy, “Kissing Cousins:” those is in a relationship and those not in a relationship.
These are grim times my friends. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan drag on, the economy is in the worst shape since the Great Depression and, in California, we’re so broke that we’re letting prisoners out of jail early.
One irony of the town hall health care debates was that they weren’t debates, they were shouting matches. In New Jersey, a paraplegic woman in a wheelchair tried to speak but an angry middle-aged man kept yelling at her.
As a boy, my favorite aunt was named Amelia. I didn’t have grandparents and Amelia didn’t have kids. Consequently, she was always my biggest fan. Amelia loved gambling (and men) so we’d go to Las Vegas on the train.
Newton Minow, the oft-critical former FCC chairman, delivered a courageous speech in 1961 to the National Association of Broadcasters, referring to TV as a “vast wasteland.
Today is the eighth anniversary of the terrorist attacks of Sept, 11, 2001. It feels like five years at most. Perhaps because the attacks were so horrific and shown on TV over and over that it looms so large.
