thematically fickle

(As published today in San Diego CityBeat. Oh, and I made the California Sex Offender News!!! Hilarious.)
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Snuggled firmly between Tibet and India is the world’s newest democracy, a tiny country called Bhutan, where last Thursday, a very young and handsome man had a colorful raven-topped crown placed upon his head by his father, officially anointing [...]

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I’m not a huge fan of Keith Olbermann. At one time I was; I found his sharp closing comments to be a welcome relief from a media that was busy giving Bush and Cheney a collective suck-off. I liked that he railed against the administration and their policies when it was so dangerous to do [...]

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I drove Ruby to school on Tuesday morning just like I do every Tuesday morning and as I turned from North Park Way onto 32nd Street, I saw these two angels standing on a corner.

They were huddled together beneath their umbrella in what had to be the first real rain storm we’ve had in San [...]

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I’m still trying to process all the emotions I’ve been feeling since Tuesday night. I can barely believe it’s real, that Barack Obama is our next president, and what that means to me, to my daughter, to our nation, to the world. When I awoke at 3:00 in the morning on the 5th, I actually [...]

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Here’s hoping the nation follows this example today.
And then I’ll finally be able to get back to writing about Ruby’s boogers and her annoying habit of telling me I’m stinky.
Until then, watch this.
One. Last. Time.
Turn it up loud.

Barack Obama for President.
In California:
No on Prop 8.
No on Prop 4.

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Okay. So. Let’s say that Sam fires up his Mini this weekend, scoots to Las Vegas and places a bet on the Green Bay Packers game this Sunday against the Tennessee Titans. He may drop a few quarters in a slot machine or enjoy a lap dance on the way to the betting office, but [...]

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(As published today in San Diego CityBeat.)
Poor ACORN. The social-justice organization has been an unfortunate victim of John McCain’s inflammatory tactics.
The poster child for a GOP-invented voter-registration fraud, ACORN is this election’s lanky geek who’s being bloodied and brutalized by the puffed-up neighborhood bullies. And as The Huffington Post reports, the bullies are feeling dangerously [...]

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The McCain camp continues to employ the I-know-you-are-but-what-am-I method of campaigning. Or are they consulting the I’m-rubber-you’re-glue game book? Whatever. The high school bullies are on a friendly fire rampage that’s become more entertaining than Kathie Lee Gifford on a Carnival Cruise and whatever happens on November 4th, I’m gonna miss this circus. Well, just [...]

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(A version of this appears in today’s issue of San Diego CityBeat.)
Remember Easy Cheese, the processed cheese-ooze that came in a can? In high school, my friends and I used to cut class, get high, squirt gobs of the stuff onto Triscuits, listen to Pink Floyd and discuss What It All Means. The conclusion? There’s [...]

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