2010 Articles

As I drove through the light drizzle to Downey this morning – sharing the freeway with thousands of fellow commuters (Californians cannot drive in the rain [as I have noted elsewhere]) – I told myself that I had to find a topic for this essaying, and, try to catch up – because my college-classes are […]

I’m getting pretty sick-and-tired of this illegal immigration shit that we are forced to hear about in California, Arizona and elsewhere.  Let’s face it – this country belonged to The 500 Nations before the encroachment of the White Man, and, it seems like Mexico’s interests and influences stretched all-the-way to what is now the state

The other day, my Adolescent Psychology class and I were reviewing Piaget’s Stages of Development, and, while I don’t place a great deal of stock in Piaget’s developmental theory – he did seem to explain what happens to the adolescent mind more clearly than anybody before him — and that is: that formal operational thinking

Before I go off with my questions RE: 9/11 – I must preface these questions with my deep and lasting condolences to the families who lost loved ones in the tragedy – I feel your pain.  Did your loved ones die in vain?  Very likely… 1)      Why did the terrorists strike so early in the

It seems like I’ve been living in some type of Persian Hotel for the past month – what with all-of-the-family and friends visiting us this past August. Normally – I view guests like fish – that they begin to stink after 3 days – but Giti’s friends and relatives have tended to add to, and

I’m trying to recall what exactly we Los Angelinos ever did to the Bostonians, or, to the New Englanders for-that-matter. Sure we have better wine and better skiing, and Hollyweird (I guess); we might even have better seafood!  But what did we ever do to deserve the McCourts?!  I mean, don’t these people realize that

I e-mailed Tami A. the other day — to suggest that I was no longer feeling vital – that I had had a T.S. Eliot moment, and, was reminded that we live in times where: the best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.  She suggested (and I’m going to have

I recently sent a letter to my beloved Times about a pseudo-study that a trio of their contributors foisted upon The Times reading public — which I entitled: “The L.A. Times Gets a ‘D-.‘”  Needless to say, they didn’t publish my article.  After re-reading my letter(a-few-times), I can safely say that my tone was rather

As my readers know, I’ve been working in the Los Angeles County Court Schools for quite some time now (18-years to-be-exact) – and I’ve met my share of folks wanting to help out the disenfranchised L.A. County youth — but I’ve never been visited by a Big-Wig director who has directed some Big Hollyweird names

I come from one-of-the-generations which have fallen in love with their morning paper.  My morning move to fetch it — through rain, sleet, snow, wind, pea-soup fog, soft sunshine or utter darkness — always grounds me in the here-and-now (no matter what my dreams have suggested).  Seeing the morning paper lying in wait in “whatever”