June 27, 2025 As a youngster growing up in the midwest I learned that finishing a discussion (or debate) with the question: Is the Pope Polish? meant that one of the parties had concluded the argument with a definitive finality.  It was also an ethnic diss against Polish people —suggesting that because of their shortcomings […]

I SCREAM! June 20, 2025 I scream!  You scream!!  We all scream against the ICE team. I’m hoping we Angelinos, and the rest of our California brethren, can weather the storm: King Donald has declared war on US and is using all the tricks of Machiavelli to lay waste to L.A. (and eventually all of

May 31, 2025 This is a personal “piece” on the Palisades Fire.  Because the event affected me in such a dramatic way, I borrowed Love’s 1967 album title for the essay title — as it best captures the inner turmoil of losing one’s anchor to being… I started surfing Topanga over-16-years-ago.  I switched to knee

May 4, 2025 Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee. How can there be another genocide in our times–particularly in this world of instantaneous communication? I hadn’t heard much news from Gaza – only hearing about medics being killed amidst the Ukrainian din.  I thought a lull in the killing of

April 17, 2025 For many years Friday has been my favorite day of the week–because that’s when Bill Maher’s talk show, Real Time, comes on. I have mentioned him frequently in The Doctor’s Inn because I admired this socio-political firebrand who seemed courageous when speaking truth to power.  Though he invited the Left and the

April 13, 2025 The US Empire is in its death throes and ready to take the world with it.  When US sneezes—the world quakes. Before getting into the topic—I must apologize to my readers for my spotty production over the past few months.  I have been putting out “nuggets” on The New Doctor’s Inn which

March 22, 2025 I am still reeling at the fact that this man, Donald of Orange, will potentially be coloring my last years on the planet.  Since 2016 – when he won the Republican primary and the presidency – he has been the focus of The Doctor’s Inn…that’s 9 years so far – with another

February 27, 2025 Now I know why Trump admires Putin and Kim Jong-un so much!  It’s because they’ve held onto power for a long period of time: Putin since 1999 (26-years-or-so) and the Kim Dynasty for three generations since 1948 (a 77-year reign).  Kim Jong-un took over in 2011 and has been-in-charge-of Korea for 14-years

February 14, 2025 Awhile back, when Kiwi Phil still worked at Rosenthal, I learned that the wine tasting room was on a coveted piece of real estate — and that developers were interested in transforming the rustic Malibu beachfront area (Topanga Canyon and PCH) into a chic Newport/Laguna/San Clemente/Dana Point-type waterfront–that would draw many more

January 20, 2025 To the delight of many-a-White South African – US swears in a racist president today! For 47 years-or-so – the practice of apartheid made South Africa the pariah of the world.  The international eye really got focused on South Africa and apartheid when the Vietnam War ended.  With nothing left to protest,