2011 Articles

…a continuation… Cal State University Northridge I joined the Educational Psychology Department of Cal State Northridge in the Summer of 2000 and felt I’d found a second home after leaving USC in 1991.  But it wasn’t too long before I realized that while the clinical side of the department was preparing superior therapists – the […]

I know I’ve alluded to it before, feeling like a misfit just about everywhere I go – but I may have found the place that feels most like home – and that would be Brisbane, Australia.  Those who know me and have read me, have heard me talk about South Africa ad nauseum – but

At first I wanted to write about the Wall Street protesters, 700-of-whom were arrested the other day for blocking the Brooklyn Bridge (now that’s an American revolution I can really get behind!) – but then, I learned that another American patriot was getting set to retire from “60 Minutes” – and I was torn about

I wonder how much money the author of the comic strip “Zits” pulls in?  I find this strip  profoundly pathetic (as it seemingly caters to the pandering of adolescents at the expense of parents) — as I do “Lido” and a host of other comic strips – which don’t seem to have anything important to

When I used to be a marriage and family practitioner, I stunned bickering couples by suggesting that each of them “owned” 50% of their marriage difficulties.  This figure did not sit well with them; as most folks wanted to claim only 40%, or 30% or 20% of the blame, and the “other” — to shoulder

I have been an USC Football, season ticket holder for many years now.  As-a-matter-of-fact – I split 6 tickets with my partners Susan and Patrick.  Patrick and I have-suffered-through-many-a-piss-poor season (Larry Smith, John Robinson, Paul Hackett); but, we did revel in the Pete Carroll years (though Pete did manage to piss-me-off with his hasty departure:

This might only catch the eye of Angelinos (unless one of these schmucks has gone national [I would hope that their collective mental blight has not been inflicted upon others]) – but these 3 journalists have been terrorizing me for years with their jaundiced brand of journalism.  I have used The Letters section of my

When I see how insightful many of the contributors to my L.A. Times are – I wonder when we will reach that critical mass necessary for the next step in our social evolution? For folks who haven’t read Arthur C. Clarke’s Childhood’s End (which I was pleased to hear was his favorite [cuz it is

Ever since I saw Michele Bachmann in the Republican debate – I began wondering how she might be in-the-sack?  Did she learn a-thing-or-two before becoming a church lady?  Is there a fully functional “bod” under those business outfits? Even Gary Trudeau seems interested in Michele’s physique as noted in the latest Sunday Doonesbury.  Gary wonders

I think I may have finally found the artist to do the CD jacket for the 30th year anniversary of a heavy metal promo I did back in 1983 with then band, Necronom (short for ‘Necronomicon’ – from the book of the same name).  We took off the “icon” because everything surrounding the full name