Luck Favors the Prepared We just completed the physical challenge of an office move – in other words, all our business stuff is now at a new address. A move doesn’t really […]
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“Girl on The Train” on the right track
By Jim Tortolano The heart of a good mystery is misdirection. If you have a pretty good grasp of who killed whom halfway through, you probably aren’t watching or reading a tale […]
Retorts: Here’s what voters really want
With just a little over a month to go in the 2016 presidential election, many Americans are looking at the prospect of choosing the next occupant of the White House as a […]
“Sweeney Todd” a bloody good time
By Thom deMartino Within Garden Grove’s famed Gem Theater, a sonorous clamor ascends, as a haunting symphony of lost souls processes across the darkened, indigo-hued stage: enticing the audience, siren-like, to indulge […]
Why did you stay at that job so long?
Should I Stay or Should I Go? This past Sunday marked the retirement of a gentleman who defied the odds – not only today’s, but historical odds for all things related to […]
Retorts: Plight of the working class guy
Back in the Thirties, much was made of the concept of “The Forgotten Man,” the poor and working class guy who suffered the most from the effects of the Great Depression. In […]
Time for sleeper to awake and leave
Dear Marilyn, For the past year I feel as though my family has been put into a corner. My cousin from Guatemala came to the United States (legally). He stayed with our […]
Believe it or not, taxes going down
Somebody Check the Thermostat I have some unbelievable news. Unbelievable because none of us ever thought this would happen. It is unbelievable because this news defies conventional wisdom and economic logic; because […]
This “Magnificent Seven” unintentional fun
By Jim Tortolano I liked the new “The Magnificent Seven,” but not for the reasons that the filmmakers would appreciate. I enjoyed it because in the midst of dozens of homicides and […]
Retorts: Tests, sure, but not for religion
Does your religious faith qualify – or disqualify – you from holding public office? Is what someone believes about god, afterlives, good and evil a key factor in whether you should vote […]
