Los Angeles and California
Five Untrue Things You'll Hear About the Angels This Week
A Divisional Series Primer
The Hardball Times - October 4, 2005
The Left's Eyeing Your Home
Why Aren't L.A. Democrats Joining the Anti-Kelo Backlash?
Los Angeles Times - August 14, 2005
Baby Love
The Hippie-Capitalist Wisdom of CD Baby Founder Derek Sivers, Hero to 93,000 Indie Musicians and Counting
LA Weekly - June 10, 2005
Deadwood Democrats
If Conservatives Can Claim South Park, it's Time for Liberals to Embrace the Real Wild West
Salon - May 21, 2005
Watching Dave Hansen
Living Vicariously Through the Career of a Pinch-Hitter
Baseball Analysts - May 5, 2005
Who Gets to Play Journalist?
An Academic Question Becomes a Pressing Legal Issue
Reason - June 2005
The Rubes in L.A. City Hall Have Swallowed Hollywood's Hard-Luck Story
Why We Should End Hollywood Welfare Before We Know it
Los Angeles Times - April 28, 2005
I'll Save the Cream Pie for Next Time
Review of U2, Live at the Staples Center
LA Weekly - April 15, 2005
Hipsters Send Times Into Tizzies
Outside the Tent: The L.A. Times' Hilarious Gentrification Laments
Los Angeles Times - April 3, 2005
Value Added
Since Long Before 'Character Education' Became Trendy, Gene Doxey Has Taught His Students Right From Wrong
Teacher Magazine - May 2004
Culture Clash
What Happens When a Harvard Man With a Computer Is Given the Keys to Chavez Ravine?
Orange County Register - April 4, 2004
Journalists Expelled, Terrorists Let in
How LAX Border Guards Undo Billions of U.S. PR for No Good Reason
National Post - December 6, 2003
Time Enough for Love
Robert A. Heinlein's New Oldie
Reason - December 2003
Socially Liberal, Fiscally Conservative, Personally Narcissist
Can Arnold Deliver on his Substantial Political Promise?
Reason Online - November 17, 2003
UnFAIR
The Failure of 'Market Failure'-Driven Fire Insurance
Reason Online - November 5, 2003
Golden Bear?
California's Surprising Economy
Reason - November 2003
Keeping Psychics Honest
Only in San Fran, Part XXIX
Reason - November 2003
Who Needs Meet the Press When You Have Jay Leno?
Why Arnold Needs a Media Circus to Govern by Initiative
National Post - October 11, 2003
Bad Boys Get Spanked
Recall Was About One Important Issue -- Firing Gray Davis
Reason Online - October 9, 2003
Minority Report
California Latinos Confound Pre-Election Predictions
Reason Online - October 8, 2003
Gray's Last Stand
Recall Turned a Cautious Plodder Into a Reckless Governor
Reason Online - October 7, 2003
Diamonds in the Guff
A Closer Look at Five Fringe Gubernatorial Candidates
Reason Online - October 7, 2003
The Body Politic
The Walrus on Arnold Schwarzenegger's Politics
The Walrus - October 2003
Queer Tidings
Last Gasp for Political Correctness?
National Post - September 6, 2003
Re-Propping 187
California's Controversial 1994 Measure Makes a Comeback
Reason Online - August 14, 2003
Recalling Immigration
Desperate Davis Rekindles Long-Smoldering Debate
Los Angeles Daily News - August 10, 2003
Ah-nold To the Rescue
The Gold State Prepares for the Craziest Election Ever
National Post - August 9, 2003
BASE! How Low Can You Go
Gray Davis' Nauseating Pander to the Left
Reason Online - August 1, 2003
Reporters Sans Entree
Dept. of Homeland Scrutiny
Reason - August/September 2003
They Keep Coming, Again
Immigration Rhetoric Heats up in California
National Post - July 12, 2003
Disassembling Mexifornia
Immigration Debate and Policy Is Shifting Right Under Our Noses
Reason Online - June 25, 2003
Keeping Journalists Out
Homeland Security Saved From Insidious European Tech Reporters
Reason - May 20, 2003
Ben Affleck for a Day
How I Got Dragged Into the Unreal World of Reality TV
National Post - May 17, 2003
Where Are LA's 'Mad Cowboys'?
Shooting Down Anti-war Rhetoric at the Mall
National Post - March 8, 2003
Let Them Eat Bagels
Grumpy Herald-Tribune Swallowed Whole by the New York Times
National Post - January 25, 2003
Paper Cuts
Student Op-ed Pieces Result in Free-speech Fracas at Cali High School
Teacher Magazine - January 2003
Gray Skies From Now On
Dreary California Governor an Early Bet for Presidential Nomination
National Post - November 9, 2002
'Runaway' Strain
The American Politics of Runaway Film Production in Canada
National Post - September 21, 2002
Hahn Failed Truth Test in LAX Shooting
Be Very Worried When the Mayor and the FBI Downplay 'Terrorism' in Case Involving Egyptians or Saudi Arabians
Los Angeles Daily News - July 14, 2002
No Patience for Phony 'Bill of Rights'
HMO Reform is Cute, but Have you Ever Tried to get Insurance?
Los Angeles Daily News - August 5, 2001
The Webbys' Tribute to San Francisco
Internet Awards Celebrate and Console the City That Started it all
Online Journalism Review - July 25, 2001
A Little Less Absolute Power
Supreme Court Chips Away at the Anti-Immigrant Frenzy of '96
NewsForChange - July 5, 2001
Immigration Foes on Wrong Side of History
Racial Hysteria, not Multicultural Harmony, Dominates California's Past
NewsForChange - July 2, 2001
Mayor's Race Ignored the Biggest Issue
Immigration Was the Invisible 800-pound Gorilla in L.A.
Los Angeles Daily News - June 24, 2001
Suck: From Oasis to Mirage
How the Suspended Daily Set the Standard for Media Criticism
Online Journalism Review - June 21, 2001
Why Can't we all Just Talk About Immigration?
Ignoring L.A.'s Massive Demographic Shift is no Cure for Racism
NewsForChange - June 13, 2001
L.A. Needs More White Flight
After Hahn Supporters Flee (or get Kicked out), no More Crack ads for us!
NewsForChange - June 8, 2001
So Much for the Media Oligopoly
Media Support for Villaraigosa is Near-Unanimous, but he Still Might Lose
NewsForChange - June 5, 2001
Stomping Dubya Like Shaq Stomped Spurs
Bush Picked the Wrong State to Mess With
NewsForChange - May 29, 2001
Will L.A. Kill off the New Democrats?
Since They Can't Beat Republicans, Centrist White-Boy Demos Try Their Tough-on-Crime 'Electability' Against Charming Minority Liberals
NewsForChange - May 21, 2001
Rodney King and the L.A. Times, 10 Years On
Anniversary Illustrates What Happens to Communities Without Newspapers
NewsForChange - March 10, 2001
The Isla Vista Massacre
Don't Blame UCSB's Filthy College Town for the Actions of a 'Tweaker'
NewsForChange - February 27, 2001
CANN They?
How L.A. Governs -- and May Yet Overthrow -- the Internet
Zone News - February 1, 2001
Chief Parks Should Resign
Autopsy Shows L.A. Cop Shot Actor at Halloween Party Four Times in the Back, but 'We Can Explain That'
NewsForChange - December 8, 2000
California's Teflon Front-Runner
L.A. Gets Stiffed $36 mil for Cop Overreaction to Convention; Meanwhile Singapore Gray Gets Tax-Exempt Oil Money to Fix up his House and Grab
Pole Position for 2004
NewsForChange - December 6, 2000
Give Us Your Poor, Leave the Rich Home
Nader's One-of-a-kind Immigration Policy Would Crack Down on H1-Bs, Offer Full Rights to Farmworkers, and Cut Off Support for 'Dictatorships' Like India and Mexico
NewsForChange - October 24, 2000
Nader Shakes Down Brentwood
'Little Guy' Champion Nibbles Salmon With Limousine Liberals
NewsForChange - September 13, 2000
L.A. Labor's New Promise
Influx of Activist Latinos Is Changing the Politcs of Failure
NewsForChange - September 5, 2000
The Morning After
What Did the Convention Mean for L.A.'s 'Digital Coast?' Beyond the Parties and Influence Peddling, Results Were Mixed at Best
Zone News - September 1, 2000
The Nightmare Scenario
If Gore Wins California But Loses Nation, Watch out for Gray Davis
NewsForChange - August 24, 2000
Thrift-Store Reality Check
Before You Get Excited About Politics -- or Decide to Vote Nader -- Visit Your Local Goodwill
NewsForChange - August 21, 2000
The Ritually Insincere vs. the Incoherent
At the End, I'll Take Confused Protesters Over Professional Democrats
NewsForChange - August 18, 2000
How to Fight for My Working Family
Seven Tips for Al Gore, if he Actually Gave a Crap
NewsForChange - August 17, 2000
Lying to Larry King
Nothing 'Inadvertent' About Cops Attacking Journalists
NewsForChange - August 17, 2000
Shadow Boxing
L.A's DMZ Squanders Golden Opportunity for Human Conversation
NewsForChange - August 16, 2000
Future Miss U.S.A.
Filthy Hollywood Rockers More Clever Than Campaign Journalists
NewsForChange - August 16, 2000
Ram Dass for President!
Every Delegate, Journalist and Candidate Is a Drug Felon, So Why Not Back the Crazy Stoner?
NewsForChange - August 15, 2000
Homeless Activist Slams Anarchists
Kids Are 'Imposing Their Ideology,' Sparking Cop Backlash, Flores Says
NewsForChange - August 15, 2000
Cops Shoot Homeless Hero Ted Hayes
Activist, Famous for Non-violence, Leaves Protest Pit in Ambulance
NewsForChange - August 15, 2000
Communists Shut Down Broadway
Mao-Maoing Cubatistas March Down L.A.'s Most Capitalist Street
NewsForChange - August 14, 2000
The Democrats' Appalling Chairman
Meet Joe Andrew, a Corrupt Dot-Com Weenie With a Mind of Cheese
NewsForChange - August 14, 2000
Inside the Cop Mind at LAPD.org
Will Anarchists Who Call Them 'Pigs' Get a Little 'Stick Time'?
NewsForChange - July 19, 2000
The Militarization of the Sunset Strip
Sheriffs Crack Down on 'Cruising' While Compton Drowns in Blood
NewsForChange - July 17, 2000
Riordan Prepares Bloodbath
Bitter L.A. Mayor 'Cannot Tolerate Nonviolent Civil Disobedience'
NewsForChange - July 14, 2000
I Never Thought I'd Say Nader Was 'Fun,' But...
I'll Take Any Campaign-Finance Weirdo Over Gore and his 'Palabras'
NewsForChange - July 10, 2000
DNC Blows Smoke Up Our Asses
Convention Organizers Turn Down Big Tobacco, but Not
Terrible Monopolists or Disserved Taxpayers
NewsForChange - July 7, 2000
Rhapsody in Cheese
A Blissful July 4th With Jackass Actors, Fat 3-year-olds,
And Scattered Fireworks
NewsForChange - July 5, 2000
Start the Revolution Without Me
My DSL Nightmare, and Why the Broadband Boom Is a Bust
Zone News - July 1, 2000
Hire Education
How Career Colleges, Technical Institutes and Alternative
Adult Schools Are Cashing in on the Digital Revolution
Zone News - July 1, 2000
Gray Davis is the Real Quack
While Insurance Commish Resigns, Governor Wastes
$22 Million on Blatant Self-Promotion
NewsForChange - June 30, 2000
The Culver City Finger
Mr. Travel Buddy Unravels This and Other L.A. Mysteries in Online Forum
Fodors.com - June 28 - July 5, 2000
Tale of Two Barbecues
Why Bobos Will Vote Gore, While the Real
Working Class Looks Elsewhere
NewsForChange - June 27, 2000
These Aren't Hoodlums, These Are Cops
Mayor Spends More Energy Slamming Laker Fans than Rampart Hooligans
NewsForChange - June 21, 2000
My California Miseducation
Schools Fail to Excite Kids About State's Fantastic History
NewsForChange - June 19, 2000
The Dawn of Sunset
How L.A. Became the Capital of Pop Music
Fodors.com - June 19, 2000
Mama's Got a Sluice Box
What Year Is It? California Golddiggers' Centuries of Scamming
NewsForChange - June 12, 2000
Fearing the Backlash
Are Ramparts Thugs Rooting for a Crime Surge,
So they Can Blame Police Critics?
NewsForChange - June 5, 2000
In Defense of Los Angeles
Reflections on Tacky Venice Blvd. and Memorial Day
NewsForChange - May 30, 2000
My Time in the DEN of Iniquity
Report on 6 Weird Weeks Spent at the Infamously Mismanaged
Digital Entertainment Network
Online Journalism Review - May 25, 2000
Notes on the End Times
Who is Out-Fiddling Who as Weird Epoch Goes up in Flames?
NewsForChange - May 13, 2000
Pop or Kaboom?
What Will Happen to L.A. When the Markets Finally Crash?
Zone News - April 1, 2000
Unconventional Planning
Democratic Convention Seeks Money and Gear, L.A. Tech Firms Crave Publicity and Political Pull, so Why Won't They Mate?
PLUS: Hard-wiring the Convention
Zone News - March 1, 2000
Hollywood Goofy Over AOL-Time Warner
Merger Has Executives and Journalists Gossiping Like Schoolgirls
Wired News - February 4, 2000
AOL-Time Warner: Bully for L.A.
Merger Could Jump-Start Broadband, Force Entertainment
Industry to Get it Together
Zone News - February 1, 2000
The Internet's Dr. Frankenstein
UCLA Professor Leonard Kleinrock Is Still Dreaming up Schemes,
30 Years After he Plugged in the ARPANet
Zone News - January 1, 2000
The Stealth Revolutionary
Why the Record Industry Should Be Terrified of
Marc Geiger and ARTISTDirect
Zone News - October 1, 1999
Bulworth at the Beverly Hilton
Candidate Beatty Gives Vigorous Speech to Impotent Audience
Tabloid - September 30, 1999
Thomas Dolby Says it's Payback Time
Major Labels Deserve Everything They're About to Get, Says
Nerd-Rocker
Wired News - September 9, 1999
Cookie Monster of Putnam Pit
Why One Beverly Hills Journalist Is Fighting an Entire Tennessee Town ... And Defining Internet Sunshine Laws Along the Way
Salon - October 15, 1998
Ugly Irwindale Is McPig of the Year!
SoCal's Filthiest Suburb Scarfs Twice as Many Big Macs as Any Other City
Tabloid - September 10, 1998
Bus Tour of the New Economy
The Aesthetic Nightmare and Walking Dumb of the Silicon Valley
Tabloid - July 31, 1998
No Sheepskin, No Job, Loser!
Why Twain, Hearst, Mencken and I Couldn't Work for Today's Papers
Tabloid - July 13, 1998
Salon Detected on Beltway Radar
Investigative Scoops on Scaife & Specatator Earn Respect, Scorn
Online Journalism Review - April 30, 1998
Ex-Print Muckrakers Thrive on Net
Driven Away by Bland Newspapers, Hell-raisers Make Their Mark
Online Journalism Review - March 31, 1998
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