I guess to start this out, one has to address the lingering affects of Bush-Cheney. Not the issue of whether there exist any lingering impacts, because that’s obvious. But rather the number of times one […]

When just one-third of California’s 16.8 million registered voters turned out for last June’s primary election (only 24 percent of those actually eligible to vote), loud bleating ensued from so-called experts claiming that most potential […]

The ideal of democracy was expressed in real time on Monday night at the Martin Luther King Auditorium in the Santa Monica Main Library. Fifteen City Council candidates, vying for five open seats, answered questions […]

The David in our own City Council may have launched a good sized-stone at Goliath bullies in Arizona when it first decided to impose a ban on trade with Arizona and then backed up its […]

Once on a visit to Las Vegas years ago I met a friend at his hotel, and I happened to notice that the windows to his guest room were sealed shut. You couldn’t open them […]

Hope springs eternal in the hearts not just of people, but political parties, and the hope of both California Democrats and Republicans today is that voters in the other party will desert, or at least […]

I’m not a big tipper. But I do believe in the tipping system if it can be called that. Tip-based incomes create a larger economy and give the individuals involved a certain amount of scheduling […]

Katharine ‘Kit’ Dreyfuss had to choose between being a teacher or a nurse. She won a fellowship to Vanderbilt Peabody to study to be an English teacher. At the same time she was accepted at […]

Once again it’s “Alice in Wonderland” time in Santa Monica as our City Council has passed an ordinance holding homeowners co-responsible when their hired gardeners illegally use leaf blowers. Is there another city in America […]