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Late last week the coolest of American presidents lost his cool. The Big Orange Thing finally got under President Obama’s skin. For 40 continuous minutes Barack Obama unloaded on...
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Late last week the coolest of American presidents lost his cool. The Big Orange Thing finally got under President Obama’s skin. For 40 continuous minutes Barack Obama unloaded on...
Read MoreNot long after arriving in Los Angeles I landed a job as a writer on a TV series. The show was not good. OK, it was horrifically awful, maybe the worst show in the history of television....
Read MoreAnother political campaign, another broken promise. But this promise wasn’t broken by one of the candidates. I broke it.I swore I wouldn’t...
Read MoreBarack Obama never said the words “sorry” or “I apologize,” so technically it wasn’t an apology. As the first sitting American president to ever visit Hiroshima, Japan, the world was focused on every syllable Obama would say.“Seventy-one years ago” began the president, “on a bright, cloudless morning, death fell from the sky and the world was changed.” Of course, 75 years ago, on a bright, cloudless...
Read MoreI knew a guy who loved to tell blatantly racist jokes. We’ll call him “Mr. Name Withheld” because it’s possible he still walks among us. In addition to his other charms, Mr. Name Withheld also had no concept of personal space. He would grab my arm and literally pull me so close I could count the bumper crop of hairs growing out of his enormous tomato nose. Then he’d go into his act: “Two blacks walk into the welfare office ...”
Read MoreThe bad news is the American middle class is shrinking. The worse news is the average American’s middle is growing. At the same time incomes are going down, waistlines are going up.The Pew Research Center crunched Census Bureau numbers and found in 203 out of 229 metropolitan areas, including Los Angeles, the percentage of households qualifying as “middle class” fell since the turn of the millennium. In places like Midland, Texas, it’s actually good...
Read MoreI’m big with criminals.Occasionally I get letters from prison. Sometimes a letter will come from the county clink and sometimes I get mail from one of California’s popular state penitentiaries. So this might be a case of biting the hand that feeds me.Last week, Karol Mason, the Assistant U.S. Attorney General told The Washington Post that the Justice Department would no longer use the terms “felon” and “convict” when referring to felons...
Read MoreAttention Mexican flag-waving, cop-car rocking, bottle-throwing anti-Trump protesters; The Donald thanks you. Donald Trump’s horrible rise to the top of the GOP heap has been zipping along on two separate but co-equal tracks: a.) he’s clearly the front-runner to be the nominee of the Republican Party and b.) He’s guaranteed to lose in November. Not just lose, get slaughtered.Every poll in every demographic in all 50 states indicates Trump will be...
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