It’s a bright, warm Southern California afternoon and I’m driving north on the I-405 from Irvine to Torrance, in the carpool lane at 80-plus miles per hour, in an electric car which makes its own electricity.
Because my deadline is Thursday at 4 p.m., by the time you read this, the Lakers will either be up one game or down one game in the NBA Finals. (I’m biting my tongue at the thought of the latter, which hurts if you think about it.
Four years ago, the Democratic minority on the Rules Committee of the U.S. House — the body that oversees legislative process for that side of the Capitol — issued a lengthy report excoriating the Republican majority for abandoning “procedural fairness” and “democratic accountability.
While I generally don’t see the glass as half full only because mine is perpetually half empty, I still try to remain cheerful by having a “Why not me?” outlook on life.
Azerbaijan. The mere name connotes the foreign and uncharted terrain. It appears that not too many people have been to, let alone heard of, this small Caucasus republic alongside the Caspian Sea.
An abortion is a surgical procedure that is sometimes necessary in order to save a pregnant woman’s life, so it must remain safe and legal. No matter what we think of the procedure, we can agree that in the most scientifically advanced society in the history of the world no woman should die in child
Part 3 in a series about torture “The guard [was] throwing me into the wall while screaming questions. Then [he] starts throwing me into the railroad tie that the sheet metal is attached to … my head snaps back and connects with the wooden railroad tie.
I’m in a movie. I can’t believe it. If this is what movie stars go through, I have a newfound sympathy for them. Seeing myself on a screen and knowing that those words were going to be permanently there, those images not subject to improvement, those verbal mistakes forever recorded, it’s nerve wrac
<i>Editor’s Note: The Quackers are three awesome ducks 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 first milk or colostrum produced by a mammal for its offspring is crucial for its survival. Moreover, cow or bovine colostrum offers a potent remedy to millions afflicted with diseases and cancers.
It seems that the obfuscation of budget figures, costs and policy on special education issues is still “par for the course” at the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District.
If necessity is the mother of invention, a bad economy is invention’s annoying, but motivating brother-in-law. During the Great Depression, all kinds of important things were invented including the electric shaver, penicillin, and Monopoly.
