A cartoon gag that I saw as a child Is a fondly remembered treat: Somebody rings a bell and then A trapdoor opens under his feet. Just a moment ago this fellow Was happy and […]

I hope President Bush doesn’t have any more office wives tucked away in the White House. There are only so many supremely powerful jobs to give to women who are not qualified to get them. […]

I suspect that Grover Norquist, Karl Rove, et al. will be a little less vocal for the next few months regarding their mantra of “starve the beast.” The beast, you see, is government spending for […]

I had a girlfriend who wasn’t in my life that long because, among other things, I think she sucked up too much of her Florida upbringing. She used to spill the occasional unpleasant racial comment, […]

From the beginning of time, virtually every step forward humankind has taken can be credited to some brave, talented individual who broke out of the crowd to cut a new path and, as Abraham Lincoln, […]

Child Relief and You America Inc. (CRY) held a fundraising event – WALK 2005 for child rights – for the first time in Southern California on Sunday, Octobr 2, in Santa Monica. Organizers said Santa […]

The last steel beam of the Madison Project of Santa Monica College’s 541-seat visual and performing arts center was hoisted up and placed on Monday, October 10, 2005, to the applause and cheers of a […]

Santa Monica Alternative School House (SMASH) has issued a invitation to all future jack-o-lantern carvers and humanoids with a sweet tooth to the its first annual Pumpkin and Bake Sale. It will be held Wednesday […]

As of Monday, October 10, the Santa Monica chapter of the Red Cross had collected $1,003,758 locally for hurricane relief, and about 226 hurricane victims, including about 65 children, have relocated to the Santa Monica […]

Santa Monica College will present the Bundy Campus project draft EIR at a scoping meeting next Monday to solicit public comments on potential environmental impacts of the project. The meeting is scheduled for 7 p.m. […]