Category Archives: Opinion
Scandals reminds us civil rights movement still important
“Are You Running with Me, Jesus?” is the title of the bestselling book of prayers by the Rev. Malcolm Boyd, an Episcopal priest, writer and activist who had brought his Christian values into the streets and alleyways at the beginning of the 1960s. The Rev. Boyd was interviewed recently as he anticipated his 90th birthday. [...]
Networks serving up schlock
Networks are generally leery of shows that are set in the past. TV executives think younger viewers don’t care about history. And they’re always on the hunt for the younger demo, working on the mistaken premise that millennials buy more and change brands more often than profligate and fickle baby boomers. Or maybe networks are [...]
Is Bay Bridge debacle a harbinger?
Jerry Brown did one of his characteristic political pirouettes Monday. For months, California’s governor had dismissed revelations in The Sacramento Bee about shoddy construction and inspection practices on the grandiose, long overdue and massively over-budget project to replace the eastern portion of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. He and his minions had disparaged The Bee [...]
2 measly years for a man’s life?
Four teens who pleaded no contest to involuntary manslaughter in the June 2011 death of 70-year-old Travis Dairy owner Ho J. Kim were back in court this week. According to the reported terms of their plea deal, with good behavior and time served, they should be released before the end of summer. What the heck? [...]
Editorial Cartoons for May 23, 2013
The egg on Heritage’s face
SAN DIEGO — Dear Heritage Foundation, you’re not helping. I assume you agree with the proposition that – demographics being what they are – it would be a good thing to thaw out the frosty relationship between Latinos and Republicans. Yet, your incompetence and insensitivity during the Jason Richwine debacle have brought in a new [...]
In Iran’s presidential race, reformers get cut
For Iran’s June 14 presidential election, the Guardian Council has whittled the list of nearly 700 would-be candidates down to eight, most of them hard-liners loyal to the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The rest pose no threat to him. Conspicuously missing from the list were two candidates with independent followings and one, Akbar Hashemi [...]
