October is the perfect time for people to change their appearance and pretend to be someone they aren’t. Yes, there’s a double meaning in that, referring to how folks – and not […]
Halloween is past its ‘salad days’
Those 2024 campaign capers
Editor’s note: Second part of Retort’s new “Kudos and Komplaints.” Here are the Komplaints. Read on for the Delights and Disappointments. I don’t care for campaign signs. I realize that “name recognition” […]
Ugly tunnel now a paintin’ place
A debut of a new Retorts feature: Kudos and Komplaints pointing out what’s worthy – in my opinion – of praise or worth of gripes. Tunnel We Love: The pedestrian tunnel (between […]
Justice for all, not just for us
Ten people, including two professors, will face misdemeanor charges of refusing to disperse as police tried to clear the University of California, Irvine campus of encampments in May created to demonstrate for […]
Retorts: Time for ‘tough love’
Cities all across our West Orange County and – and probably – all across California are busy composing anti-camping ordinances aimed at clearing clusters of homeless people creating impromptu settlements on public […]
Hey, use your thinkers, voters!
Now, wasn’t that an interesting debate? One candidate said the foreign leaders would “eat the lunch” of the other candidate, while the other claimed that a town in the Midwest is plagued […]
Is mixed-use trend a sort of a mix-up for Orange County?
I don’t suppose that in the midst of an historic presidential election, the beginning of the NFL season and the stretch run of the baseball pennant (and playoff) races many people are […]
A spice-y story of obsession
This week there’s a hugely important event, which I am sure most Americans are closely following. Oh … did you think I was referring to the nominating convention of one of […]
GG and Anaheim: pals forever
For many years, Garden Grove lived in the virtual shadow of Anaheim and the Mouse. If you were out of town, and someone asked you where you were from, the dialogue went […]
Just when is your number up? …
Now that Old Joe Biden is getting ready to soon step into the history books as ex-president and almost-as-old Donald Trump is still being … Trump-ish, the question of age is in […]
