Monthly Archives: November 2004

Thanksgiving Dinner in the Park

November 28, 2004

Trees are everywhere and seem greener here than in most places and the air is fresh and clean. It doesn’t matter that Los Angeles has the dirtiest air in the nation. Fifteen miles north, in Pasadena, you can breathe as the trees caress you. This is indeed such an enchanting place that the [...]

Posted in Drugs, George Thomas Clark, Homeless, Mental Health, Pasadena, Poverty, Thanksgiving

Dealing with NBA Players and Fans

November 28, 2004

Dozens of us were honoring a retiring colleague and had been too occupied with talk and tri-tip to watch televisions mounted high on the walls of a noisy franchise restaurant. I’d only glanced at the basketball game a few times and last seen that the visiting Indiana Pacers were comfortably ahead of the Detroit Pistons [...]

Posted in Basketball, David Stern, Ron Artest

Arnella Flynn, Too Much Like Errol

November 15, 2004

For decades the inside cover of Parade magazine has been like it is today, a page glistening with faces of beautiful and famous people. And as I write this, one of those pages stands out more than hundreds of others I’ve read. It was from an early 1970’s issue and featured the delightful image of [...]

Posted in Alcohol, Drugs, Errol Flynn, Movies

Fear Not, California – Bakersfield Shall Save You

November 8, 2004

Have you been to Bakersfield? Ask that of most people in California and they’ll say, “No, but I’ve been through it.” They just kept on rolling over parched Central Valley earth en route to Los Angeles or the Bay Area. Why didn’t they stop? Perhaps they were startled or saddened by the eternal glare from [...]

Posted in Bakersfield, California, Politics

What President Bush Really Said

November 8, 2004

“Echoes from Saddam Hussein and George W. Bush” is available as an electronic book.
Please click here to read an excerpt.

Posted in Campaign 2004, George W. Bush

Experimental Poll

November 1, 2004