As we get used to people using cell headsets and Bluetooth technology, we no longer mistake them for crazy people talking to imaginary friends or the voices in their heads. Now, we instead find ourselves mistaking crazy people for normal people.

For the most part, the only way to get from the South Bay to the Westside in less than half an hour is by helicopter.

Most people in Los Angeles don't give a shit about Hollywood or celebrities.

Although there are plenty of really good ones, no South Bay community fair is as good as Manhattan Beach's Old Hometown Fair.

South Bay politics have been irreversibly tainted by national party partisanship, and local elections are going to be increasingly repugnant because of that.

Public radio can be really boring sometimes.

Trader Joe's got a huge opportunity during the grocery store strike of 2003-2004 and has never looked back.

For some reason, we are much more offended by the slightest whiff of sex on television than we are by graphic images of violent death and mangled human remains.

Spanish Colonial Revival architecture peaked many decades ago, and most of the red-tiled beige stuff being built these just looks ridiculous.

Sometimes the Internet is just a lot of opinions searching for a fact.

It is hard to imagine any change in the way the Los Angeles Unified School District is governed making things any worse.

The rapid increase in the number of people using electronic personal digital assistants (PDAs) hasn't made society any more timely or efficient.

(June 28, 2006)

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