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I'm 51, I live in Hollywood, and I voted for Barack Obama. So did my partner, Lynn, who's 48.On our block are Sue, who is 71, and Jane, ditto.Both voted for Hillary. I was curious all through the...
View ArticleIndyMac and the dismantling of consumer protection
I found the news about IndyMac intriguing this morning. Mortgage lender IndyMac of Pasadena, California has been diving down the path of illiquid insolvency since this time last year (here's a chart I...
View ArticleObama/McCain megachurch showdown in Orange County
A few of you probably read last night that Barack and McCain have agreed to appear together at Rick Warren's Saddleback Church in Orange County on August 16. I would guess that some of you are...
View ArticleSwinging out
I love to read about the campaign, but at this stage, I love to do a certain kind of reading: I love to read about people working the campaign.You know the drill by now. What matters more after Labor...
View ArticleCharacter: do they really want to go there?
I could swear that John McCain left an ailing wife, who waited patiently for six years for him to return to the USA, after her multiple surgeries.I could swear that while his wife was trying to heal,...
View ArticleThe Internet keeps winning...
I don't know how you responded to last night's debate. But watching one channel, satisfied I had seen another Obama drubbing of a fidgety, shifty McCain, I was bewildered by what the pundits said.So I...
View Articleit's the little things
Of course, there are big, big things that make me happy. But these are among the surprising things that have brought me happiness too: So glad I don't have to look at Real Clear Politics again for at...
View ArticleLos Angeles is an ostrich farm
I recently did what almost no media in Los Angeles were willing to do: I covered the Mayor's "race."See, most LA media are progressive. So much so, in fact, that they are unwilling even to acknowledge...
View Articlethe tea party putsch
Like many here, I followed the last ten days of the NY-23 race with special interest. I wondered what Sarah Palin really knew about Doug Hoffman that caused her to get involved in the first place. I...
View ArticleAttorney who opposed disgraced Clinton fundraiser Hsu slain
It may be a random crime; if so, it is a highly unusual one, with no mention of robbery.
View ArticleWhat is a banker?
I engage people of all stripes on Facebook, and I press them when they make political statements I don't like. One source of sustained pressure for me of late has been Ron Paul's views on banking....
View ArticleToo willing to tune in, too helpless to stop
One of the things I'm proudest of in my usually quietly trite liberal life is that I was at this community early enough to bag the screen-name "Joseph."But another is that I wrote a novel about 9/11,...
View Article5% Hispanic turnout?
Well, that's what the Pew crosstabs said today in their little poll.Oh, that and that there would be more far more people to vote who make $75K a year than who make between $30 and $75K.And if you...
View Article"low information voter" is a patronizing term
As a vet of two presidential campaigns, one in each party, I've been watching for a week now, puzzling and looking at crosstabs, and at last I'm prepared to say why I think Obama took a sudden...
View ArticleLA: A City Mingling Towards Identity
So much of what we think of as great progressive thinking originates in Los Angeles. Indeed, if you were around about a decade ago, you were witnessing the birth of the progressive blogosphere right...
View ArticleRude Polls for California Dems
It does indeed appear that the three (or, lets face it, with Kindee Durkee, four) Democratic scandals in recent California legislature memory are having a frosty effect on the State's status as a...
View ArticleReplacing Waxman
Yesterday I was asked by someone in City of LA government my thoughts on the Congressional race to fill Waxman's seat. The race has had some recent buzz on local radio as there's 11 days left and there...
View ArticleZephyr Teachout Goes Rogue
This is not going to be much of a post, and I'm post-deadline a couple of ways anyway. Maybe I'll make a mistake or two. But there's a big deadline elsewhere to-day too, so I've got to make the time.I...
View ArticleLA Times names Nicco Mele deputy publisher
That's pretty much all I have to say for now. But if the name doesn't register, I'd be honored if you made it to my backgrounder on publisher Austin Beutner's involvement with Melee when Mele was the...
View Articlefollowing up on Nicco Mele
Here as half-promised are my follow-up thoughts on Deaniac turned McCain dabbler and ultimate Harvard tech prof Nicco Mele becoming deputy publisher of the Los Angeles Times.I mainly talk about the...
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