Dah DEE dah
DAH dee dah
Dah dah dah dee DAY

Dah DEE dah
DAH dee dah
Dah dee DEE dah day...

Recognize this melody? If you're a Blue Shield of California member, you hear it pretty much every time you call and end up holding...

What the...I told the passenger's side rear view mirror of my car when I saw what it showed.

I'd just found the only legal parking place on Moorpark near Van Nuys in Sherman Oaks. All I had to do was parallel park fast and maybe I'd make my meeting...

"Either the public buys the politicians or the special interests will."

-- George Skelton, LA Times

Big Pharma makes sweetheart deals with the White House.

Big Oil sends employees to spoil congressional Town Halls with their assault rifles and their "grassroots" concerns about climate change.

Big Milk...

"It's not about what the public wants. It's about money...and nothing will change...until the money-lenders are tossed out of the temple, and we tear down the sign they've placed on government -- the one that reads: "For sale."
--Bill Moyers, July 10, 2009 Bill Moyers Journal, PBS

The...

Late afternoon rush hour, Hollywood, this time of year -- right after Easter, just a few days left of Passover. Moments after hugging my then 11-year-old goodbye and watching her dad welcome her to his seder, I already missed her.

I was expected at a seder in the West...

This past Sunday I ran for re-election as a Delegate to the California Democratic Party (CDP). I was on the Progressive Slate, from the 42nd Assembly District which covers parts of LA and the San Fernando Valley.

Two years ago when I first ran, local progressive Dems were fired...

Despite LA's vengeful autumn broil, the holidays used to start around October 1st for my family, through my daughter's 15th year. They'd last until early January when reality sloshed back in.

Then, in late September when Sashi was 16 -- just about the time the concept that she might...

Back from Best Buy one recent evening with my new all-in-one inkjet, I finally began connecting it to the computer just before midnight. When I next glanced at a clock, it was way later and I'd utterly failed. Time for another disjointed tech call.

The young woman answered with...

"I can't go on. I'll go on." -- "The Unnamable" by Samuel Beckett

Yea us! Americans just spent over a billion in time, energy and dollars and changed our government.

I'm exhausted. For two weeks, my brain has been floating on dreamy currents in the South Seas.