In the opening of the greatest Halloween story ever, “Something Wicked This Way Comes,” Ray Bradbury writes, “First of all it was October, a rare month for boys … But one strange […]
Those old ‘haunted houses’
Put a soldier on your block
The latest unique initiative by The White House involved calling the nation’s military leaders to a meeting in Virginia to –among other things – tell the generals and admirals to get ready […]
Honess! I was a teenage (and somewhat older) quack
Not since James Watt, secretary of the interior in the Eighties, shrugged his shoulders about the environment because he believed that the world was going to end soon anyway, has the U.S. […]
Smoke gets in your eyes, brain, lungs, T-shirt, hair, breath, etc….
Both my parents smoked. My father smoked cigars and pipes; my mother went through Kent cigarettes like President Trump goes through new tariffs. I grew up in a fog of dirty air. […]
How best to remember 9/11
I saw a post on Facebook about Sept. 11 observances. One comment was “We’ll never forget.” *Sigh* We already have. By that I mean the mood of national unity, kindness and acceptance […]
Another chicken in the race
Here and Then Dept.: Chickens may not find this to be good news, but there’s a new entry in the poultry-peddling business and it’s pretty tasty. It’s called Pollo Campero, and the […]
Retorts: Do it right, ICE-men
Do It Right Dept. There was an incident recently near a Garden Grove public school in which immigration agents seized a man, handcuffed him, and held him in a van for about […]
Is HB council calming down?
Not as MAGA Now Dept.: The approval by voters of Measures A and B in Huntington Beach in June appears to have had a moderating influence on the Huntington Beach City Council. […]
On that roller coaster again
This is the “back-to-school” season, the annual shifting of tectonic plates which turns grade school kids into teenagers-in-waiting, and those into rapidly emerging pre-adults. It’s a time of anticipation and apprehension. Will […]
Happy days at Disneyland
Disneyland opened 70 years ago last month and the man behind it – Walt Disney – was the fellow who probably had more influence on Orange County than any other person. The […]
