A few weeks ago, the Santa Monica City Council voted unanimously to place a measure increasing the sales tax by a half cent on the November ballot. The first question to be asked is why.
In a few weeks, the 2010 election season will begin in earnest. Most serious candidates have been working on their campaigns for months and a lot of ducks are already in rows.
Q: The news media is always discussing gang violence. Can you tell me why someone would want to join a gang? A: A gang is a group of (usually young) people who claim some territory (called turf) and use it to make money.
Glenn Close going crazy in “Fatal Attraction” was a cautionary tale for any man considering a casual affair in the late 1980s. Today, the repercussions of Tiger Woods’ affairs should be enough to discourage men from cheating on their wives.
Going through a divorce is considered among the most stressful of human experiences, second only to a life-threatening illness, followed by getting fired and moving.
Even for the adventurous I wouldn’t recommend going to Grifin on your own. This area of Istanbul is what New York’s meat packing district must have been like before it became fashionable.
Dear New Shrink, I am in so much pain; I don’t know what to do. I feel completely abandoned by my family. Years ago my parents divorced. My father was abusive and my mother was an alcoholic.
“Let every individual and institution now think and act as a responsible trustee of Earth, seeking choices in ecology, economics and ethics that will provide a sustainable future, eliminate pollution, poverty and violence, awaken the wonder of life and foster peaceful progress in the human adventure
Today I read that one of the FBI’s most wanted is some guy running around with a passport from Ghana. “El Shukrijumah is thought to have served as one of the leaders of al-Qaida’s external operations program.
I’ve had issues with Santa Monicans for Renters’ Rights (SMRR), the we’re-the-only-game-in-town political party that basically controls the City Council, the Rent Control Board, the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District, and Santa Monica College.
With a motto of slowly but surely, the desert tortoise is like a miniature four-wheel-drive vehicle clambering slowly along, negotiating steep rocky slopes by simply remaining in first gear.
When I heard last Wednesday that Judge Vaughn Walker had invalidated Proposition 8 as a violation of my civil rights, he didn’t just say I could marry a man, he said I was no longer, “just a fag.
