Legalizing Marijuana: The Golden State’s Pot Of Gold?
This week, a ballot initiative to legalize marijuana possession by adults qualified for the California ballot. The Regulate, Control and Tax Cannabis Act of 2010 is coming up for a vote. It’s becoming obvious that unlike failed legalization initiatives in the past (of which California has had at least two), the debate will this time center around money.
Is Los Angeles The Worst Managed City In America?
The Budget Crisis California has been dealing with a ballooning budget crisis for the past 8 months, but the latest flash point of major financial crisis is now hovering over the City of Angels. The city faces a budget deficit close to 1 billion, and could be effectively bankrupt by the summer. How is it […]
Jeff Bridges Deserves An Oscar For “Crazy Heart”
The main difference between movie stars and actors is that, too often, movie stars make the characters they play fit into their own persona. True actors do the opposite by going under the skin of the characters they inhabit on the silver screen. Great actors, such as Jeff Bridges, make this intense psychological challenge of […]
The Scandal Of Hunger In America
Today, about 49 million Americans experience what the US government refers to as “food insecurity with hunger”. It is Thanksgiving, a perfect time to reflect on hunger. Hunger is a miserable feeling and a powerful word that rightly produces anger and outrage. Today’s hunger and poverty crisis is similar, in scope, to the one of […]
Interview of Anti-Bushman: Copycat of the World’s Most Famous Panhandler
Interview with anti-Bushman, a copycat of the world’s most famous panhandler in the Fishermans Wharf district of San Francisco, California.
