Michael Jackson once made me the most popular sixth grader at Weston Middle School. In 1983, I used a futuristic device known as a VCR to record “Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever” and brought the tape into school.
I’m an outstanding uncle. From my recent-college-graduate niece (I’m so proud of you, Nyomi!) to the 2-year-old nephew just learning the basics — and the 10 in between — I’ve had decades of practice being a stand-in for this occasionally dirty dozen.
I was reading the L.A. Times last Friday when I came across an op/ed by Bill Maher entitled “Enough with the Obamathon.” Thinking the comedian would write something funny like Larry David’s New York Times pieces on undecided voters and “Brokeback Mountain,” I read on.
I love that California is the hippest, most progressive state in the country, but I hate that our Constitution can be amended by a majority of voters.
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
“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.
Rap music has been officially dead to me for about six months. If we played a game of Clue to figure out who killed it, the answer would be, “Kanye West, in studio 8H at Rockefeller Center, with a lipstick-red microphone.
The response to last week’s column calling out conservative Christian talk show host Matt Barber for defending Miss California from the gossip blogger known as Perez Hilton was so one-sided that I am writing this week’s column as a public service.
As your friendly neighborhood columnist, it occasionally falls to me to call people out when they’ve done wrong. I don’t always like it, but I have to do it.
It’s the 100th day of our new president’s term in office and a good time to look back at how he’s done. I’ve been on the “O Train” for a long time — having been called an Obama “dog washer” long before they had a dog to wash — so it’s no surprise that I approve of the job he’s doing.
Libertarians make me laugh — mainly because I can’t take anyone who uses the terms “nanny-state” and “big government” seriously. It’s not that there is anything particularly funny about individual freedom, open markets, and limited regulation, it’s that these people don’t seem to understand how much
When I first heard an American ship, the Maersk Alabama, had been attacked by four pirates off the coast of Somalia, I thought I bumped my head and woke up in 1815.
