Editor’s Note: The Quackers are three awesome ducks — Rusty, Richard and Sydney — from the canals of Venice who are on a mission to educate the community about the dangers of global warming and the importance of practicing sustainability, all while surfing the most gnarly waves possible.
Did I miss the speech that President Obama gave telling Democrats in Congress to honor their promise to give us the same health care “that both Sen. McCain and I enjoy as federal employees?” Nope.
I love that a lawyer’s only job is to make an argument and that the good ones can take the same set of facts and “argue it round or argue it square.” I love that most legal proceedings are designed to let one side expose the weaknesses in the other side’s argument, so I’m really loving the coverage
Surviving winter in the great outdoors is difficult especially when body temperature is unregulated and subjected to subfreezing temperatures. Insects and amphibians have some remarkable adaptations that enable them to successfully over-winter.
Over the course of his first year in office, Barack Obama has shown himself to be a skillful and savvy politician, saying the things Americans want to hear while stealthily and inexorably moving forward the government’s agenda of centralized power.
What an exciting idea! Food truck operators selling tasty treats on a vacant lot in the heart of Santa Monica. The daytime “Gourmet Food Truck Corner” set up shop last Monday at 14th Street and Santa Monica Boulevard.
In response to the Christmas “underpants bomber,” an outraged President Obama called his security and intelligence people together. The headline on the front page of the Los Angeles Times the next day read, “Obama gives his team earful over foiled plot.
If you traveled through the blogosphere this year, you would think that the country has three presidents — a foreign born socialist dictator; a tool of “business class rule and militarism” and Barack Obama who, despite the slurs being hurled on the right and left, is doing a pretty good job.
In American history, the years 2000 to 2009 represents among the worst decades ever. The 1860’s with the Civil War, and the 1960’s with Vietnam and the assassinations of JFK, RFK, MLK and Malcolm X, may rank worse. But only slightly.
Most moms want to think their daughters are sweet and strong — effectively that they’ve birthed the human equivalent of cotton candy: delicately spun pink sugar elegantly fused to a durable paper cone.
Dear New Shrink, I have tried to stop drinking but have not been able to, even after getting a DUI. But I feel ready and have made a New Year’s resolution to stop! My family wants me to go to rehab but I really do not think I need it.
Unless you were under a rock last week, you were exposed to more than your fair share of those “Story of the Decade” lists covering every aspect of every conceivable thing across every platform of American media.
