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Reality TV loves extreme makeovers. Do you?
And now -- a political scandal everybody can get a handle on.
Barack Obama will accept the Democratic presidential nomination at Denver's football stadium Aug. 28, the anniversary of the day Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech (1963) and Sen. Strom Thurmond began his 24-hour, 18-minute filibuster against civil rights (1957).
This Fourth of July, you can have your parades and political speeches.
Come on, admit it. You love watching people wallow in misery of their own making.
Last night was my book club night. We eat, we drink, we argue about books and politics and everything else going on in our lives. It's a swell evening.
Ihaven't visited Bakersfield in a while, so I didn't have any inkling that the capital city of Kern County had turned into the West Hollywood of the Central Valley, a madcap gay mecca right there in the breadbasket of the Golden State.
FIRST, BECAUSE of what happened there 40 years ago today, it was a crime scene. Then it became evidence in a murder trial. The passage of time eased it from a place of horror to a place in history. And then bureaucracy consigned it -- most of it -- to a landfill.
Janitors in West L.A. went out on strike. Autoworkers in Kansas went out on strike. An entire Spanish pro soccer team just went out on strike. California voters should hit the picket lines too.
Kent Twitchell's fabulous six-story mural of artist Ed Ruscha -- whitewashed. My my. Tsk tsk. What a shock.