You may recall that last month I ran a musing titled “Blow Up Your TV.” It railed against all the stupid TV sitcoms and other idiotic television shows. Back in 1961, FCC Chairman Newton Minnow referred to American commercial television programming as a “vast...
One of the best things about summer in sunny Southern California, no matter whether you reside at the beach, the inland valleys or in the mountains, is that cool, refreshing ocean breeze that blows through late in the day. Sweet days of summer; jasmines in bloom, July...
Well, we made it through Jamboree Days without burning down the mountain. The parade and all the festivities were fun, as were the picnic in the San Moritz Meadow and the fireworks, viewed from the North Shore patio complex. The only thing missing was the return of...
Summer is finally here and today I feel like waxing poetic (I should be waxing my surfboard), so I’d like to begin with a little ode to summer. It goes kinda like this: Spring has sprung, and fall has fell, now it’s summer and it’s hotter than…Heck! Okay, I know what...
I have some serious reservations about these “driverless cars” you see all over the place nowadays: Tesla, Waymo, Hyundai, Uber, Google and others still under development. There’s concern that they may be vulnerable to computer hackers or some foreign government that...
