OK, so maybe a better name for this blog would have been "Slow Train Coming." Like the 1979 album by a then-reborn Bob Dylan, faith is key to holding fast to the belief that Los Angeles will one day be known by the uninitiated as anything other than a great...

To borrow liberally from the wisdom of Yogi Berra, that giant of American letters, "It isn't over till you've visited the new show at the Annenberg Space for Photography." Sport: Iooss & Leifer which features the works of Neil Leifer and Walter Iooss, two of the world's greatest sports...

While I generally don't go for alphabet soup, from now on I'll have the OSDV. If you care about your vote being counted and are concerned about the flaws exposed by voting irregularities in the last four national elections, you should too. OSDV or "open source digital voting" refers to...

As anyone who knows me knows, I've always had at best an ambivalent relationship with the military. Coming of age as I did during the tail end of the war in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos, like many of my generation I have always been highly skeptical of military speak and...

The October 13, 2009 Los Angeles Times carries a welcome, if overdue, article on Lindsay, California. Where? Think Lindsay, like the olives. Thanks to a smart city manager and others in Lindsay which sits just east of Route 65 and southeast of Visalia in Tulare County in California's citrus belt,...

In my last blog I took a lot of flack for citing a study showing a correlation between obesity and Coke or Pepsi consumption. At the risk of losing my last shred of credibility as someone able to critically interpret a research finding, here's another study to chew on. And...

Who knew? Obesity and soda consumption are two sides of the same coin. A new study by UCLA's Center for Health Policy and the California Center for Public Health Advocacy (CCPHA) shows a strong correlation between soda consumption and weight. Specifically, the study's researchers found that adults who...

''Job Offer Vanishes!" is the title of the cover story in a recent issue of National Enquirer. Unfortunately, I saw a reflection of my own experience in that headline staring back at me while waiting in the checkout line at Ralphs this morning.

You see, the L.A.-based firm that offered...