Month: October 2010

  • I wuz robbed! (Yeah, and so wuz the robbers!)

    I was in a convenience store recently when it was robbed. Even sitting here at my computer I can see the frightened look in your eyes. No, it wasn’t a…

  • Kristina takes leukemia to the pitch

    KRISTINA ISN’T OUT OF THE WOODS YET. (She couldn’t be because she is still in West Virginia.) And she hasn’t climbed her last mountain either. (Well, she couldn’t have done…

  • Names in the news: Orange community spotlight

    Due to comments from my editor, Dan “Oh, by the” Way, “suggesting” that I was not putting enough “Local” in my Local Voices column, this week’s column is entirely local.…

  • Unemployment needed at the Unemployment Office

    I KNOW THE OFFICIAL NAME is the Employment Security Commission, but everywhere I have ever lived, everyone, without a hint of sarcasm, calls it the Unemployment Office — because that…

  • The News in Briefs –The Mass Media Edition

    Progressive media in national OCD clinical study BETHESDA, Md. — The National Institute of Mental Health announced today a $7.7 million grant to fund a collaborative study with the University…