Father’s Day
Father’s Day Sunday was so very nice in Beverly Hills. The sun was warm, its rays sparkling through the swaying of the elm and eucalyptus trees. It smelled fresh and clean. Early in the evening I decided to ride my bike up to the post office — about a mile away — and maybe cruise […]
Capitalist Shibboleth #39: Land Is the Basis of All Wealth
While rummaging through some old file folders I found this advertisement; it appeared in the Los Angeles Times on February 24, 1970 – while the Cold War was still raging.
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Water, Water, Every Where ….
Have a nice swim, dear?
Southern California has been inundated these past several weeks with rain storms; it’s something we’re not used: There’s flash floods, mud slides, overflowing storm drains and traffic jams.
What’s really scary, though, is an advisory sent out by L.A. County’s environmental health division, advising people to stay out of the ocean because […]
Taylor Swift’s Performance Malfunction
What are we to make of the ongoing controversy over 20-year-old country singer Taylor Swift’s off-key performance at the Grammys last week? The Web world is abuzz with fans and detractors defending or denigrating the singer. MTV News even published an article titled “Why You Shouldn’t Hate On Taylor Swift” in response to the […]
Healthcare Costs on the Rise. Why?
OK, everyone leery of government intervention in our health care system. Take a look at what the L.A. Times reported today under the headline:
Anthem Blue Cross dramatically raising rates for Californians with individual health policies. Policyholders are incensed over rate hikes of as much as 39%, which they say come on top of similar increases […]
The People Speak: Howard Zinn
With the death on January 27 of historian Howard Zinn (author of “A People’s History of the United States,” the first book to present American history through the eyes of working people rather than political and economic elites), we wanted to call to your attention the release of Zinn’s DVD “The People Speak” on […]
New Birthday for 2000 Year-Old Man
Shout! Factory on November 14 will team with comedians Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks for the release of “The 2000 Year Old Man: The Complete History,” compiling the best of the bits featuring Brooks playing the oldest man in the world, answering questions posed by Reiner about historical events and people. The pair started doing […]
Save the Century Plaza Hotel
On June 23, 1967, President Lyndon B. Johnson attended a $500-a-plate Democratic Party fundraiser at the Century Plaza Hotel in Century City. A peaceful anti-Vietnam War demonstration assembled outside the hotel; I was one among approximately 10,000 protesters — representing groups ranging from Another Mother for Peace to Students for a Democratic Society to Trotsky […]
Woodstock: 3 Days of Peace & Music
Hey ex-Hippies: It’s time to set your soul free again (”We are stardust, we are golden”). This year marks yet another benchmark for aging hipsters: the 40th anniversary of Woodstock. Though I was unable to attend the event ( I did, however, attend a few other benchmark musical events, including the first L.A. concerts of […]
Return to Peyton Place
On September 15, 1964, ABC began airing a twice-weekly primetime drama based on the then-scandalous best-selling novel “Peyton Place” by Grace Metalious (which had been made into a 1957 theatrical feature by Mark Robson starring Lana Turner, Lloyd Nolan, Arthur Kennedy, Russ Tamblyn, Terry Moore, Hope Lange, Diane Varsi and David Nelson). The show catapulted […]
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