Getting Real About Immigration Reform
Illegal Immigration is largely like the weather. To quote Mark Twain, “Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.” Of course that isn’t entirely true with regard to immigration as different states and even local municipalities have attempted to put into law statues that would in various ways limit the [...]
The Life and Death of the Working Class
Whatever happened to the working class? From appearances they are all around us, working in everything from the dozen manufacturing plants still remaining in the United States to the auto and truck mechanic bays and doughnut shops across this fair land of ours. There are carpenters, plumbers, electricians, truck drivers, butchers, bakers, cab drivers, bartenders, [...]
The Life and Times of the Counterfeit Erection
The head of the Intellectual Property Investigation Bureau for the Hong Kong Customs Office, recently reported that eighty percent of the counterfeit drugs seized are used to treat impotence. This means that despite all the diseases out there that require treatment, from heart disease to restless leg syndrome, the main concern is penis performance. [...]
Old Buildings and the Age of Raze
There is a famous line in the film, Chinatown. John Houston’s Noah Cross character, proclaims, “I’m old. Politicians, ugly buildings, and whores all get respectable if they last long enough.” I am not sure about politicians anymore, and the whores of today may not be as respectable overtime as the prostitutes of legend. But we [...]
The Enduring Easter Bunny Fetish
I was going to write something more serious when my eye caught a photo on the Sunday Los Angeles Times where two security guards were trying to wrest a large plastic trash bag from the hands of one of the prodigious street vendors working the downtown area. The large plastic trash bag was filled with [...]