Wrong number email and text messages are a joy. I’ve had email addresses with just a first name or simple word and received everything from a detailed thank your for a weekend-o-sex to a nauseating consumer complaint about a yeast infection remedy. Sometimes it’s just Kismet, though. Years ago I got a mistaken invitation to [...]
I have trusted Consumer Reports since I was a child for product ratings. Your policy of no advertising and no commercial use has been admirable and useful, and I’ve always been happy to pay for the service. Now your website has a shopping section. The explanatory paragraph says that it’s intended to provide a safe, [...]
Many of my friends are vegetarian. To clear up the terminology, I am talking about people who do not eat meat of any kind (not fish or chicken either, folks), but may use other animal products, e.g., eggs or honey. Non-vegetarian friends rarely handle this well. If the subject comes up, at least one person [...]
At the end of a Monday, this is the top news of a wealthy, well-known Southern California beach resort, population about 90,000. There’s a lot going on in my town. News-type news happens! More than most cities this size. We have a harbor and a large beach. But apparently the Register (and everyone else, really) [...]
I rarely reproduce an article in its entirety, but as would say, the whole thing is a pullquote. I can’t come up to the challenge of annotating or responding. Instead, read: Newport may close Balboa branch, open ‘electronic’ library Instead, part of planned community center would be equipped with computer center, on-demand book orders. NEWPORT [...]
It is a fact generally acknowledged that the institution of marriage in the United States is troubled. Editorial writers, television journalists, and politicians are agreed that less people are marrying, less are taking their marriages seriously, more are ending their marriages, and those who end them often have several. The importance and permanence of marriage [...]
This is the least despairing of my latest suburban despair photo expedition. This time I was in Stanton, which is a small, boring, violent chunk of North Orange County. Stanton evokes for me, because it looks the way Costa Mesa did when I was a child in the 1970s: strip malls, asphalt, and piles of [...]
Sign fale at car wash, Costa Mesa, California. Meant only for humorous purposes but came out very Ed Ruscha.
In the previous post’s threads, two people I respect pointed out that the Democratic Party, and in particular the current administration, has betrayed the cause of reproductive rights. It’s depressing, but I’m better informed now. That changes neither my vote nor my recommendation. But we have a lot of work to do locally and in [...]