‘Never Back Down’: A love story
What do we learn from Never Back Down? We learn this: Love in its most purest condition—love as love, love as nothing but love, a love supreme—can only be extracted from this experience of two people who are brought together by a cosmic concatenation, love at first sight. Love at [...]

Nothing says ‘I love you’ like hundreds of thousands of dollars
The L.A. Times prints a love story today. State Board of Equalization member Bill Leonard loves to give corporations tax breaks. Many corporations looking for breaks from the board love to “pump hundreds of thousands of dollars into a tiny Sacramento-area nonprofit where Leonard’s wife [...]

One person’s heartfelt erotic fantasy is another’s Exhibit A in a sexual harassment suit. That’s why every workplace is supposed to have rules about lovin’, touchin’, squeezin’ another while on the clock. Paul Abramson, alas, feels the rules at his workplace are too strict. Abramson teaches at UCLA.