By any measure, the Los Angeles Times is a bad newspaper. Sure, it's the fourth-largest paper by circulation in the U.S., but that's akin to calling someone the fourth-least-terminal patient in the inoperable-cancer ward. Simply put, the Times stinks. I mean, this is a paper that once ran a ...
The hubbub surrounding last week's announcement that "Underground Railroad" conductor Harriet Tubman would be movin" on up to the obverse of the twenty-dollar bill led me to flash back to how I first entered the world of professional blogging. In an unlikely turn of events, I became a ...
However the Trump War resolves itself, we"ve already seen at least one casualty"conservative media cohesion. Sides are being drawn, and blood feuds have been declared. As The New York Times recently pointed out, Trump-inspired divisions and conflicts among normally allied conservative media ...
Growing up in L.A. in the late "60s and early "70s, I certainly had my fill of hippies (and then some). And I have to say, the hippies of that time weren"t all bad. Slovenly, spoiled, self-righteous, sure. But some of their rhetoric was totally on point. "Always question yer ...
It would be an ignominious defeat worthy of a Shakespearean tragedy if abortion ends up being the issue that derails Trumpas the Tank Engine. By claiming that there would have to be "some form of punishment" levied against any woman who would dare get an abortion in Donald Trump's ...
The left's grip on reality has never exactly been vise-like. But it seems to me that leftists are losing it"more than usual"over Trump. And I"m no Trump fan, to be sure. Last week I was amused to see myself involuntarily added to the Wikipedia page of "prominent individuals" ...
In its never-ending search for scapegoats, the left has decided that Nancy Reagan bears full responsibility for her husband's response to the AIDS crisis (apparently, attacking first ladies is totally cool as long as their name isn"t Michelle Obama). With a pace that probably rivaled the speed ...
The factually challenged (and largely plagiarized) 1977 TV miniseries Roots had an undeniable influence on how millions of Americans, black and white, view the era of slavery. A standout moment in this well-made piece of historical hooey occurs shortly after Kunta Kinte, the proud African (is there ...
In early 2013, former Saturday Night Live cast member Victoria Jackson, the ditzy blonde who took up space on the show in the late 1980s before fading into obscurity, posted an essay on her website titled "Why Isn"t There a White History Month?" I"m quite certain that as she was ...
Apparently, Mormons have a pathological hatred of Polynesians. Who knew? I certainly didn"t, until last week's perfunctory "look how racist those white devils are" national news story brought it to my attention. It seems a bartender at a Salt Lake City joint called Big Willie's pulled a ...
