It’s night, and the only illumination is from the glaring lights of the cars and hotrods convened on a high seaside bluff in Southern California. Buzz Gunderson, black, pomaded hair…
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# Journal Entry
“America’s Finest City,” as it likes to call itself, just shelled out $20 Million to some accounting firm that took it to the cleaners for producing a report on the…
Americans are only recently having to get accustomed to being spied upon by their own government. In other countries having one’s government’s eyes on you or into your affairs…
A few years ago I met a guy over a cup of coffee at the café I frequent. The usual café protocols we exchanged: first names and what we…
The political Right loves sound-bites; simple phrases don’t over-tax the limited intellectual capacities of their constituents. Their latest, a knee-jerk response to any suggestion that the American troops/targets in…
The synagogue a few blocks from where I live looks at first, with it Paladian architecture and stained glass windows, like a former Catholic church. But on closer inspection…
It is difficult to comment upon the latest Ridley Scott film, Kingdom of Heaven , without drifting off into what it implies about faith and religion and how it resonates with the…
I had to get a new passport this year. The old one, with the extra pages, filled with stamps and visas that signify many wonderful memories was due to…
The people laboriously making their way up the hill don’t look very athletic to me. Some are a bit too old and out of shape and a few should…
Only a fool would think he can defeat a concept. A fool tilting at windmills. But then, a fool, the president of the United States, is exactly what…