I presume the more perceptive among you have noticed in this Presidential season that for the 219th consecutive year, only one political party in our country remains undefeated and untied, those sly Democrats.
You Don’t Suppose Parks Wants to Lose, Do You?
Is Bernard Parks trying to lose the race with state Sen. Mark Ridley-Thomas (D-Culver City) for the seat on the County Board of Supervisors held by the unctuous Yvonne Brathwaite Burke? Does he not process his thoughts? He keeps embarrassing himself in front of sensible people. Or have you forgotten his sally into The New Yorker flap last month?
Talk About Overdoing a Good Thing — or Have They?
After 6 consecutive weeks of unrelieved reporting, especially of the contrary viewpoints on stepped-up oil drilling in Baldwin Hills, have you heard enough? Or have you simply had enough?
With roughly the force of a hurricane, a gentleman of stature of my acquaintance answers “yes” and “yes” both times.
A Case for Sherlock Homes: The Vanishing County Supervisor
One of my smartest friends spoke up this morning in defense of County Supervisor Yvonne Brathwaite Burke, the queen of useless and absentee politicians in Los Angeles — although Mayor I Love Me runs a darned close second.
Of Abbreviated Skirts and Pretty Girls
How wrong can a guy be?
On his sixth day in the nursing home, I asked Pop whether the nurses had convinced him yet to change his registration from Democrat to Republican.
“No,” he laughed, and he is laughing a lot these days. “They said I was smart. I told them I thought so, too.”
Peeking Behind the Obama Curtain to Inspect His Clever Strategy on Race
For a moment, forget one or both of the races that Barack Obama was born into — even though the brilliant spine of his campaign strategy is to never let that happen.
April Showers Provocative Thoughts on Her Theatrical Audiences
An appealing, dynamic and strong-willed young woman plays the Douglas Theatre on Saturday night.
You should look in on her if only because you are a recovering cheapskate and tickets are a scant $5, which even your youngest child can afford, whatever his age.
With the ‘Barrel Belly Polka’ Playing in the Background, Jumbo Janny Strikes up the Ban with Fork in Hand
Somewhere in America, I am confident there are smart liberals who are genuinely savvy. Meanwhile, we are forced to suffer recovering grandmas who believe in punishing innocent neighbors for their addictions.
Swooping Down and Breaking up a Marriage, Whether the Parties Like It or Not
I woke up this morning to the startling realization that my 93-year-old father and my 93-year-old stepmother are getting a divorce. Today.
A fight is not anticipated over custody of the children.
Frankly, I never expected to become a child of divorce after I was a grandfather.
Was Culver City Lucky, Smart or Neither in Turning Away Chief Seabrooks?
You might think that the Wise Men and Lady of the previous City Council would be standing in front of any mirror they could find this morning, congratulating themselves for displaying the foresight to just say no to Jacqueline Seabrooks both times she sought to become the Police Chief of Culver City.