Electric scooters > Gas powered scooters

Crenshaw Boulevard > Hawthorne Boulevard

Lawndale's Hawthorne Boulevard renovation > Redondo's Artesia Boulevard renovation

Surf shops > Department stores

Downtown Torrance > Downtown Lomita > Downtown Redondo Beach

Manhattan Beach police/fire construction controversy < Manhattan Beach school construction controversy

Bill Cooper > Mary Rogers

Candidates who win elections because of their record of turning down proposed condo developments > Candidates who win elections because of their record of approving proposed condo developments

Candidates who, win or lose, take down their signs the day after Election Day > Candidates who, win or lose, leave their crap up all over town for months

Other local farmers' markets < Torrance farmers' market

Averill Park > just about any other park in the South Bay

Sam Edgerton < Howard Fishman

Cold beer on the beach > Warm beer on the beach > no beer on the beach > suffering namby-pambies who think that any discussion of drinking on the beach is some sort of moral violation

The Mayor of Manhattan Beach < The Mayor of El Porto

Beach sand in Manhattan Beach > beach sand in Redondo Beach > beach sand in Cabrillo Beach

The stranger in the seat next to you taking a cell phone call after the lights have dimmed at the movies < eating glass

Flat tire on the 405 > Flat tire on the 110

(December 19, 2003)

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