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Don’t Cry!
Milk tanker crashes and spills 6000 gallons on Highway 99, Modesto, California.
View ArticleTwo Ladies, Off the Tracks
The tales of two California ladies, Nadia Lockyer and Brinda Sue McCoy sure do have some twists and turns. Both are sad, in their own way. . .
View ArticleOverwhelming Juliana Redding
Sentences, you have to split up the big ones. As in, be careful not to overwhelm your readers with too many facts. Put a period down and let them breathe. Like this: After a business deal between...
View ArticleCalifornia State Marine Corps
A certain state department in California has been rocked by a financial scandal that saw $54 million chipmunked away for possibly nefarious uses. So, if you’re Governor Brown (my apologies if you are),...
View ArticleNudity as Free Speech
Naturally, I am wary of politicians named Wiener. Except this Wiener is not Anthony, but Scott. And Mr. Wiener is a supervisor in San Francisco, fighting the usual Bay Area silliness. He is attempting...
View ArticleNot the Pisa Tower
What landmark is four stories high, 450-feet long, and weighs 480,000 pounds? Not to mention the 385 gallons of paint it just slurped for a face lift. . .
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Like Nails on a Chalkboard, LA’s Poet Laureate
Eloise Klein Healy was selected by Los Angeles’ mayor Antonio Villaraigosa as the poet laureate of the city. What qualifications does she have? Not her birthright: she was born in El Paso, Texas and...
View ArticleLake Tahoe Browns
I am a frustrated angler. I’ve mentioned my last four fishing trips and the fact that I pulled goose-eggs out of the lake. Many years ago, I fished Lake Tahoe and I feel a kinship, a connection, with a...
View ArticleFight Video Teen Found Safe
The town of Carlsbad sits not far from my house. And my heart sank when I read the story of the Carlsbad teenager, Baileigh Karam. Several folks from my Navy command live in the neighborhood. It is...
View ArticleOfficer McGruff, Reporting as Ordered
I may be slowly turning into Officer McGruff. Tell me if I overreacted in any of these San Diego incidents: -I am driving on the freeway. Normal I-15 traffic, cars are moving at 55 mph. I look over two...
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Conversations I Almost Had Today
Panera: freshly baked To the Panera counter kid: Yes, I knew you were stoned well before I gave you my order (of a large coffee and one of your delicious four cheese soufflés.) Honestly, I could not...
View ArticleHow to Ride a Bike
Cyclists can sometimes be their own worst enemies. I had to yell a month ago at four riders, taking up a whole lane on their expensive Felt cycles, to get over in a single-file line. They were chatting...
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Star Date May 2013: To Boldly go where he has never been before, ‘burp’
You see what happens when you take a Yorkshire Man out of Yorkshire for too long, he goes and gets corrupted in the good old USA. Patrick Stewart aged 72 has just eaten his first slice of Pizza!...
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5th Grade Graduations… I don’t get it.
I have the day off, so I tagged along on the walk with my saintly bride and my motley 3rd & 4th grade sons – for the last Friday morning ‘lineup’ (A dubious name for an event) at their elementary...
View ArticleJohn Zawahri Goes Off in SanMo
The SanMo police finally released the name of the insane jerk who shot up a Santa Monica sidewalk. His name is John Zawahri, close in spelling to Ayman al-Zawahiri, the Brain half of Pinky and the...
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Just Your Normal California La-Di-Da
Yesterday, I left my house groggy-eyed. Before you tsk-tsk at my grog-infused eyes, know that it was 0438 and I was headed to the gym. Not fifty feet from me, two of San Diego’s Finest coppers stood...
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Mirror mirror on the wall
Apart from using the reflection of one to assist in my ‘face shave’ first thing in the morning, I rarely see my other self. Even the full length ones that came with the fitted wardrobes are really just...
View ArticleJanet Napolitano, UC President
I heard this news before I read it. And I prayed inside (and outside) that it was just a rumor. Or that the UC that this scoop mentions is the University of Cincinnati. No such luck. Guess who the new...
View ArticleSan Francisco Shooting
SOMA stand for South of Market, a trendy San Francisco neighborhood. And a jewelry heist (or some such crime) went bad yesterday at the San Francisco Giftcenter & Jewelrymart: A bloodied gunman...
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The Starlet Bandits!
There are certain news stories that can elicit groans with any new development. Anthony Weiner is one, although his expiration date is rapidly disappearing in the rear-view mirror. Here is another one...
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