Beach Camping is Impossible in California

Unless you’re one of those people who makes reservations one year in advance. I am so not one of those people. There is camping up and down the coast, all booked solid. Since my daughter and I can’t afford to go to Italy this year (barring some monetary...

Only in L.A.

After driving through this hot and crowded city in pursuit of an elusive paycheck, I drove down Hollywood Blvd. for the first time in a while and what did I see but two reality shows being filmed, a lot more fans crowding in front of the Mann’s Chinese than ever...

One School Indivisible

I had to laugh yesterday when we delivered our hard-won newspaper to our fourth grade class and other administrators around the school and a new parent approached. Her daughter was being brought into the fifth grade magnet. Supposedly, according to the admins, there...

Freaks and Geeks and Creeps Drawn to Obama

Why is it that Obama, the coolest guy to ever come down the pike, is now saddled with the fucking loonies who are going to ruin it for all of us? If Camille Paglia doesn’t shut her pie-hole, giving Matt Drudge constant fodder to drag down Obama (oh, did you...