The LA Times watched the legal system fight against itself in yesterday’s story of Michael Campo, a Long Beach boy who’s in the middle of a struggle between two completely different arms of the court. The story revolves mostly around the boy’s divorced parents, as Campo splits time between his mother’s place in Long Beach [...]

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Update: Headline now changed to “Obama poised to make gains.” For futher resonance, Clinton today chides press for ignoring sexism.

Yesterday the LA Times ran a harrowing Op-Ed by Rep. Jane Harman on the rape epidemic in the military. Says Harman:
In 2006, 2,947 sexual assaults were reported — 73% more than in 2004. The DOD’s newest report, released this month, indicates that 2,688 reports were made in 2007, but a recent shift from calendar-year reporting [...]

You may know Paul Oberjuerge as the sports columnist for the San Bernardino Sun or may know him because I kinda ripped him up a while ago for writing, what I thought, was a pretty crappy column about LA Times columnist Christine Daniels in which he said she was “not an attractive woman.”
I took him [...]

The LA Times reports today that Trader Joe’s has listened (kinda) to its customers and will be pulling single-ingredient items from China. That includes things like frozen spinach, garlic and the like. But as the Times notes, multi-ingredient products pulling from China as well as other sources will remain stocked on store shelves. Per the [...]

Tues | Jan 15 Mayor Bob Foster gives his State of the City address and tells the folks who’ve paid like $100 a plate that we need money. Somebody get on that.
Wed | Jan 16 Alumnus Terry Rhodes donates $1.25 million to Cal State Long Beach saying the lessons he learned at the school helped [...]

Former L.A. Times sports columnist J.A. Adande writes on ESPN.com that the Dodgers’ signing of Joe Torre as manager will do little to improve the team’s local standing. What’s to improve? Afterall, the Dodgers drew their usual three million-plus fans (3.8 milion to be exact) last season, which is pretty good for a fourth-place team [...]

Dave Wielenga, in “Staff Infection,” wrote of that strange and annoying subsect of men who don’t just dig Bruce Springsteen but diiiiiiig Bruce Springsteen. Dave has a name for them: Wendys. “Those 40-to-60-year-old guys with their denim outfits, their jutting lower lips and their certainty that Bruce alone understands them, and vice-versa. Like silly little [...]

One good thing about the start of another interminable NBA season–have you got your tickets for the league finals? In June?–is that we get to read the LA Times Mark Heisler write on basketball. Heisler is simply one of the best, and he is always great when giving advice to hapless NBA franchises. Until recently, [...]

Local food writer Russ Parsons knows how to pick ‘em

PHOTO by MATT FUKUSHIMA
Like many of us who ride to and from our day jobs on the Passport, I usually have my nose stuck in a book. But it wasn’t until I picked up Wrigley resident Russ Parsons’ How to Pick a Peach: The Search for [...]