As the 192 leaders from every country at the United Nations meet in Copenhagen to address climate change, there are a number of things each of us can do to reduce our respective footprints.
The madness continues. In a bitter stroke of irony, Barack Obama, the 2009 winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, has set America on the road to endless war — and, it must be said, endless death.
If anyone wants to see what Santa Monica will be like in the future, just look at the four floor, 37,377-square-foot, mixed-use project proposed for 2919-2923 Wilshire Blvd.
‘Tis the season to get stressed out shopping for toys and games, so I thought I’d help reduce some of that strain. Whether you shop on the Third Street Promenade or at a mall where you can find parking, buying toys and games is not easy.
North Carolina online furniture store owner Henry Ray Privett defrauded 600 consumers of $1.1 million. Privett was sentenced to 14 years in prison after he was found guilty of fraud for a scheme in which consumers purchased furniture that Privett never delivered.
This past Tuesday President Obama spoke to the cadets at West Point announcing his plans to add 30,000 more troops in Afghanistan. Sadly, I’ve seen this speech before, though maybe not as well delivered.
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas. I was afraid that would happen. Like many Jewish people, Christmastime for me is generally a conflicted period.
This is in response to a letter to the editor published Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2009 from A. Borden (“Agenda behind smoking ban”) accusing me of dressing a landlord plot to evict tenants in a public health gown.
It’s been a week since we’ve stepped back from the Thanksgiving trenches but your fridge still has, in all likelihood, plenty of leftovers to graze upon until they become next week’s Tupperware bio-warfare experiments.
I once caught a ride from a cab driver who told me that America’s problems in Afghanistan really start in Kashmir. He explained that the key conflict in South Asia is between India and Pakistan over the disputed territory of Kashmir (that he, a native Kashmiri, called the most beautiful place on Ear
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.
The Christmas tree is up at the Loews Hotel. The ribbons are out, the holiday songs are being piped onto the Third Street Promenade. And Chanukah, Christmas and Kwanzaa are right around the corner.
