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.
This past week, Q-Line asked: City Hall was recently recognized by the League of American Bicyclists for its efforts to make Santa Monica a bike-friendly city.
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.
In the 1950s, the scariest monster for me was Godzilla (followed by Joe McCarthy and Richard Nixon). Godzilla, a prehistoric creature standing 200 feet high, weighed 60,000 tons — give or take a few tons, depending on if he was feeling bloated that day.
Credit is scarce, the layaway is back and conservation is suddenly king. Here’s why the environmental movement was right all along. A funny thing happened on the way to the economic downturn.
California has fallen and it can’t get up. This is a dangerous prospect for the nation’s fragile economic recovery since California represents 13 percent of the economy.
I finally get it. Last Friday morning I was lying in bed and couldn’t move. The shades were cracked just enough so that I could see the cold, drizzly rain outside, making the thought of divorcing myself from my perfectly warm sheets incomprehensible.
“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. … There is no worse heresy than the fact that the office sanctifies the holder of it,” was how Lord John Acton worded his rejection of the idea that popes and kings could do no wrong.
Part two in a series about torture “SERE [Survival Evasion Resistance Escape] was the best training I’ve had. It prepared me for marriage.” — Chuck Kasinger, U.
