November 23, 2025
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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 […]

Steve Stajich, Columnist

Election 2010: Let’s Also Get This One Right:

One of my sisters consistently votes Democratic, but she has become weary of the way that President Barack Obama seems to have never stopped campaigning. At first I defended the Obama, believing that he was […]