…Eleven days to go…
* Kucinich plans to formally withdraw from the race tomorrow.
* Current delegate tally for Democrats: Obama (38), Clinton (36), Edwards (18)
* Current delegate tally for Republicans: Romney (66), McCain (38), Huckabee (26). Thompson has orphaned 8 delegates, Paul has 6, and Giuliani has 1.
* LAT will go back to [...]

Chuck Norris’s craggy yet oddly immobile face has been bobbing over Huckabee’s shoulder for weeks and weeks (really, he looks like an ancient Muppet with malignant melanoma). That’s a good thing, because even though his televised image frightens children, we know that if he’s over there then there is little chance of running into [...]

But you knew that.
The Center for Public Integrity, a nonprofit center for investigative journalism, finds that in the two years after 9/11, the Bush administration made at least 935 false statements to justify military action.

Neocons like to roll their eyes and claim, in exhausted, put-upon voices, that “everyone thought that Iraq had weapons of mass [...]

I’ve spent the last sixty hours doing three things: (1) vomiting, (2) sleeping, (3) caring for a vomiting toddler that no diaper can contain. All while my spouse is out of town.
One of you has hexed me, I’m sure of it. As an olive branch, I’ll pass on two items that were [...]

And it may be a hefty chunk. Mr. Perrone, may I have a new Apple laptop?
I’ve spoken with Cosmo Perrone, director of security for the Port of Long Beach, and I am here to tell you that figuring out what the port is going to get–in fact, just figuring out what the port got [...]

…and as for me, well, I learn a valuable lesson.
You may recall our November story on security at the Port of Long Beach in which I gave aid to those determined chaps training at terrorists camps in Afghanistan (so some have said) by helpfully explaining to them (1) what a bomb does, (2) what a [...]

Three P-T round-up stories get 2008 in the boat and hit it with the oar
Round-up stories in newspapers are usually a double negative: horrific to write–lotsa busy work, little pay-off–and life-shortening to read. Like weather stories.
And so without further ado, here are three round-up stories from recent issues of the Press-Telegram. But good ones–chock fulla [...]

On Monday, when Will Swaim and I first wrote about admitted child molester Michael Baker and his plea deal, we knew relatively little about his personal history: simply that he had done terrible things, that some of those things had taken place in Long Beach, and that church officials had allowed him to [...]

Note to Archdiocese: When you guys finally get around to cleaning house, you may also want to sack your PR people.
As news of the church’s $660 million payout spread, spokeswoman Carolina Guevara was quick to reassure us all that the Los Angeles Diocese will not be filing for bankruptcy. Investments and real estate [...]

Just to get some sense of how it balances out…

As reported by Will Swaim, defrocked priest Michael Stephen Baker accepted a plea deal on Monday, exchanging the grudging acknowledgment of his abuse of two boys for a prison sentence of ten years and a $20k payout to one of the victims.
We’ve all grown accustomed to [...]