On a deep personal level, I don’t like how Colin Kaepernick is using his stardom for social protest. Most of us don’t like to have someone else hold a mirror up to us to show our flaws. In doing so, Kaepernick is trying to prod us into doing something we would rather not acknowledge or even think about. Most of … Read More
Parents Teach, but Children Do, Too
Second of three parts. Re: “A Bridge to My Grandchildren” When my two granddaughters, who are 7 and 8 years old, visit me from New York, they ask stimulating questions and make amazing observations. They even educate me. In the parent-child relationship, in addition to my own personal experience of taking care of our four children, I do not think … Read More
Welcome to a Traditional New Year
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Dateline Jerusalem — How do you observe New Year’s? Go to all-night parties? Drink bubbling champagne? Watch a glittering ball drop from high at midnight in Times Square? Attend headline entertainment? Or make your own entertainment with noisemakers and/or fireworks? Not me. I spend two long days and evenings in synagogue in prayer, reflecting and repenting, listening to the beautiful … Read More
A Bridge to My Grandchildren
My grandchildren live far away from California, on the other side of United States, in New York. Every time that we see each other, I realize how much they have grown up and become mature. I first saw them when they were born, and as infants. On the next trip, they could sit. Then they talked and walked. Now they … Read More
My Precious Manuals Tell Me How
Robert Ebsen
When you want to fix or adjust something in your house, what do you do? Just wing it, and hope for the best? Do you Google it? Do you look through your drawers for the old manual that came with the item? Are you lucky enough to have stashed all of your manuals in one place –- say, a big … Read More
Players Waving a Red Flag
Mike Hennessey
Dateline Dayton — My blood pressure goes up every time I think about those professional football players who do not stand for the National Anthem. The Anthem is not white or black. Nor is it about police or fire personnel. It’s definitely not about Democrats or Republicans. It is about our country. All of us should be proud to be … Read More
My Life—From A to Z
Dateline Boston — A is for Animated. That’s how I feel when I’m with kids. B is for Boys. I have a lot of boys in my life, which I never expected. It’s working for me, so I’ll take it! C is for Chocolate. I have not eaten chocolate in 18 days. I’m doing okay. D is for Dog. In … Read More
Fire City Council and City Attorney
Les Greenberg
Farragut Parking Issue Exposed Culver City Government. We won. We exposed the ineptitude, incompetence and lack of ethics of the Culver City City Council. We exposed that, in Culver City, influence peddling trumps reason and justice. Ken Smith, a prominent member of Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church, has given new meaning to the phrase, “Ask and you shall receive.” We exposed … Read More
Which Way Should We Go on Styrofoam?
Dr. Gyi
[Editor’s Note: At this evening’s 7 o’clock meeting of the Culver City Democratic Club, City Councilpersons Meghan Sahli-Wells and Thomas Small will discuss three measures on the Nov. 8 ballot, Props. 52, 53, and 60. at this month’s meeting. See http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/ballot-measures. The club meets monthly in the Rotunda Room of the Vets Auditorium.] At a recent City Council meeting, there was … Read More
Case Against Journalistic Balance
When campaigns complain about “fairness,” beware. Here’s what they’re really after. The main event this campaign season, of course, is the matchup between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. The undercard has been almost as compelling. Both parties and both candidates have vented their fury at the press over what they call “false equivalence,” “false balance” and unfairness in coverage. New … Read More