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Cormorant bird enjoying the rocks off Catalina Island.
Pelican.— January 30, 2014 12:59 p.m.
Super sports nonsense in New York and Sacramento
When will this madness stop? When will people realize that professional sports franchises are just that… professional. They're out to make money. To them, the cities they exist in are large clusters of customers, nothing more. And once those customers are enslaved, they demand that they not only buy tickets and t-shirts but to spend millions and even billions on new stadiums. Then there's the product. It's pure soap opera these days. My mother-in-law was into the Patriots-Broncos game just to see her favorite villain Tom Brady go down to her favorite good guy Peyton Manning. The NFL has become the WWF. Sports purists ought to run the other way from this commercialized nonsense. You like football? Go watch your local high school play. Better yet, go PLAY football.— January 27, 2014 10:37 a.m.
The digital divide of Her
Ewwwwww…. just watched the trailer and my skin is crawling. Still… sort of intrigued. Worth a shot?— January 22, 2014 4:31 p.m.
La Jolla Cove is becoming a sea lion cesspool
This message brought to you by the Society of Guilty Humans.— January 18, 2014 11:10 p.m.
La Jolla Cove is becoming a sea lion cesspool
It looks like the solution is as simple as letting people picnic and play on the rocks. A perfect, cheap solution. Of course it's too perfect. We'll have to spend a few million more dollars on studies before anything is done. PETA, the Audubon Society, the Sierra Club, and the Society of Guilty Humans will get involved. There will be six or seven lawsuits. (See Children's Pool, Mount Soledad.) There will be old ladies with misplaced priorities self-appointing themselves as defenders of the sea lions. (See Children's Pool.) Get used to the smell, La Jolla.— January 16, 2014 11:36 a.m.
Federal Defenders fights to stop courtroom shackles in San Diego
Another example of a government agency (U.S. Marshals) trampling all over the Constitution they've sworn to uphold. What's the matter with the judges in these courts? Why don't they see this Marshal's policy for the inappropriate, unconstitutional nonsense that it is? Non-elected government agencies are essentially legislating these days. And there's little or no oversight. It's not the way this country is supposed to work.— January 8, 2014 12:26 p.m.
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The force is with you, Master Mencken.— January 2, 2014 12:06 p.m.
The life of a San Diego's adjunct professor
Kenny the Facebooker hit the nail on the head. It's a question of the haves (full-time, tenured) wanting to keep what they've got (fat gov't salaries and pensions) at the expense of the have nots (adjuncts.) The aristocracy of academia (most of whom are state employees) want to keep the serf-like perpetual part-time professors down. Remember when teaching was a calling, not a way to retire at 55 years old with a ridiculous pension funded by taxpayers who can't get the same types of pension in the private sector? I think the whole college-for-everyone experiment has reached its natural death. It's degenerated into the situation described in this excellent story, into 300-student classes taught by graduate students, into college students who have no sense of the privilege of education, into MTV spring breaks, and a host of other problems. And what started this degeneration? Government involvement.— December 23, 2013 4:35 p.m.
Big Screen Christmas Mailbag
Good haircut, Yen. But, Scott, that video had some pace issues. : )— December 23, 2013 2:35 p.m.
Dig a hole: Joan Fontaine
Is it possible these two clever dames were really pals and invented the whole thing to keep their names in the papers? Crazier things have happened in Hollywood.— December 23, 2013 2:27 p.m.