Month: February 2014

I don’t know why I did it, but I read Alec Baldwin’s long farewell to public life. I don’t really have strong opinions about the man, and I don’t much care about his public life. I heard the recording he...

Get your LATimes personal at home Academy Award ballot here. Mine’s blank.  For two reasons.  I’ve yet to see “Twelve Years A Slave,” “Philomena,” “Nebraska,” and...

I do not want to be responsible for any strokes, pulmonary embolisms, cardiac arrests or other health problems that may result should they learn of this recent scientific discovery: Scientists using two different age-determining...

With Arizona’s legislature passing a virulently anti-gay bill (SB 1062), George Takei, who played the role of Lieutenant Sulu on Star Trek, has penned a diatribe that threatens economic armageddon for the Grand Canyon...

. In reply to  Dodo @ET … Under the constitution of the Ukraine, the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine of VI Convocation would be in line to succeed President Vanukovich. That would be Volodymyr Rybak, unless...