November 3, 2025
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Steve Stajich, Columnist

I’m Sorry, Did You Say… “Invasive?”:

I know who you talked to on your cell phone last week. I know which websites you’ve visited on your computer. I know that you purchased health care items at your drug store two days […]

Steve Stajich, Columnist

Hey Hey, Wait a Minute Mr. Postman…:

You’ve been hearing for years that e-mail, commercial carriers like FedEx, and the lingering recession are cutting into any potential gains for the U.S. Postal Service. But now the numbers seem dramatically more ominous. The […]

Thomas B. Elias, Columnist

An Agenda for New/Old Gov. Brown:

All right, Jerry Brown, you’ve bucked the huge national Republican tide. After 28 years, you’ve won back an office that’s been in your family for 16 of the last 52 years. That’s got to be […]

Steve Stajich, Columnist

Computer Game Violence and the Real McCoy:

On Wednesday, Nov. 3 the business section of the Los Angeles Times reported that the Supreme Court would review a California law that would forbid the sale of violent video games to those under age […]

Thomas B. Elias, Columnist

Arnold Evaluation: Not a Promise Keeper:

Arnold Schwarzenegger made many promises while running for governor in 2003 and kept one. He made many more during the more than seven years his smoking tent sat outside his office in the state Capitol’s […]

Thomas B. Elias, Columnist

Brown’s Win and What it Means:

Cynics derided him as Gov. Moonbeam, reviving the tag applied in 1977 by the late Chicago columnist Mike Royko, who later apologized for it. They said he was too old at 72 to become governor […]

Afghan and Pakistan Relations: An Absurdist Play:

How many readers feel the outrage I do when I read the headlines – “Pakistan: Clinton Unveils Details of $2 Billion Military Aid Package” and “Afghanistan: Taliban Attack NATO Fuel Convoy, Killing Three” – of […]

Steve Stajich, Columnist

Venice Boardwalk Can’t Be Bored-Walk:

People, we have a funk shortage. We lost some on Abbott-Kinney, where the funk got squeezed out and in its place we got Japanese ice cream shops and simulated hip clothing boutiques with $65 tank […]

Why Measure Y Doesn’t Measure Up:

Voters are being asked to impose a half-cent transaction and use tax increase on themselves without any specification as to what the funds would be used for beyond general municipal purposes, and then approve a […]