Where does the time go? It fades away like your dad’s best jeans, as the song lyric goes. This is the last Retorts of 2018, so it seems appropriate to look back […]
Retorts: The good, the bad and the slow
Retorts: Buying into world of chagrin
These are dangerous times in our society, and especially for men. I don’t mean the recent rain, or the crowds and traffic that grow during this holiday season, I mean the […]
Retorts: Why did Dana, GGFD lose?
Two long-standing traditions in the area suffered historic defeats in the month of November, with implications still difficult to foresee. Dana Rohrabacher, a Congressman from coastal Orange County – including most of […]
Ask what you can do for America
I was in line at the Target store the other day and happened to overhear the conversation of two young men in their early 20s discussing their achievements in some violent computer […]
Retorts: Welcome to the 2018 Mud Bowl
It is the last month before election day. It’s likely that your mailbox is filling up with mud. That’s mud of the political, not geological kind. In many campaigns from local city […]
“A Star Is Born” shines very bright
By Jim Tortolano If there’s such a thing as a perfect Hollywood movie for the 21st century – and there is not – “A Star Is Born” comes close. It combines reflections […]
Fast thinking isn’t always smart
“A good plan executed in time beats a perfect plan executed too late.” – Gen. George S. Patton. “Act in haste, repent at leisure.” – William Congreve. I am never the first […]
Ice cream is perpetual, but little else is
We now have one of those musical ice cream trucks trolling our street, just as they did when we had presidents with names like Kennedy and Nixon. To reflect changing times and […]
It’s time for that Sunday night feeling
From Katella to Warner, from Brookhurst to Beach and all points in between and adjacent, there’s a kind of a fog descending over everyone from 5 to 17. It’s what is commonly […]
New code enforcement sheriff in town
By Jim Tortolano Was the last time your watered your lawn back in Barack Obama’s first term? Are the stripes on the parking lot you own so faint they look they were […]
