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Budget-crunched public colleges turn to web courses, with a fat payday for curriculum companies.
Here’s how California treats its public colleges and universities: First, cut public funds, and thus classes; then wait for over-enrollment, as students are unable to get the classes they need to graduate; finally, shift classes ...
Everyone wants more dough, but does it produce more delight?
“Everybody wants more cash!,” declares Capital One bankcard TV pitchman Jimmy Fallon. Except for the cute baby, that is, who throws Cheerios at Fallon when he offers 50 percent more cash back. Perhaps the Capital ...
Clip & Vote
The Weekly ’s handy voting guide for the 2012 elections puts intel at your fingertips.
Less than three weeks to go and more information than you can possibly keep in your head means one thing: Take the Weekly’s voting guide with you when you head to the polls (or as ...
Vote Sanchez, Parker and Potter
With District 5 the most contentious, the Weekly announces its endorsements.
District 1 County Supervisor Sergio Sanchez District 1 pits veteran supe Fernando Armenta against two veteran Salinas City Councilmen, Sergio Sanchez and Tony Barrera. While other supervisors’ races may seem more fractious on the outside ...
The Iowa Straw Poll, a pricey test of organizing capacity, has a strange influence on American politics.
A day after Saturday’s Iowa Straw Poll results came in – Michele Bachmann edged out Ron Paul, with Tim Pawlenty a distant third, just ahead of Rick Santorum and Herman Cain – Pawlenty pulled the ...
Hypocrisy abounds as credit rating agencies decide to act hard-nosed without good economic reason.
As you might have heard – considering the entire political establishment has spent the past 72 hours debating it – Standard & Poor’s followed through on their threat to downgrade the federal government’s credit rating. ...
Time for Real Liberals to stand up and kick Team Dem to the curb.
The U.S. might as well have defaulted. Regardless of where you stand politically, the deal to raise the federal debt limit came too late for the U.S. to achieve its main objective, avoiding the downgrading ...
Balanced budget amendment will require radical shifts in government, a fact nobody seems to get.
This week, as the federal debt ceiling battle churns closer to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner’s Aug. 2 deadline, there’s increasing talk about an amendment to the Constitution that would require balanced budgets. Senate Minority Leader ...
The great Republican obsession: women’s bodies and killing Planned Parenthood.
I suppose that conservatives aren’t going to be happy until they kill off Planned Parenthood. Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin just signed a two-year, $66 billion budget stripping the organization’s health clinics of their state ...
Game theory takes on big issues, including education and global warming.
In summer 2009, the UK’s Guardian newspaper had a problem: an enormous pile of receipts. British politicians had been caught filing what would total millions of pounds’ worth of bogus personal expenses. To try to ...
Are a high percentage of self-identified Republicans completely stupid?
One aspect of American politics that receives insufficient attention is that a significant percentage of self-identified Republicans – around half – are complete idiots. And the candidates who wish to be elected by them must ...
With constant conflict, searching for peace becomes an abstraction.
In times of war, U.S. presidents have often talked about yearning for peace. But the last decade has brought a shift in the rhetorical zeitgeist while a tacit assumption has taken hold – war must ...
Immigrant women face high levels of harassment, and most never report it.
So far, French complaints about the ritually humiliating perp walk aside, the Dominique Strauss-Kahn rape scandal has cast the American system of justice in a flattering light. When alerted to the incident, the New York ...
Financial activities taxes could close budget gaps, but face heavyweight opposition from the industry.
There is growing momentum in the United States and Europe for increasing taxation on the financial industry. On April 13, the Congressional Progressive Caucus put out a People’s Budget that explicitly called for taxing trades ...
Barack Obama has a chance to redefine himself, and America, post-bin Laden.
Might the killing of Osama bin Laden create a once-in-a-presidency opportunity for Barack Obama: the chance to redefine himself by letting his progressive twin out of the closet and back into the political mainstream? Obama ...
The death feud has ended, but the evil he wrought continues.
Osama bin Laden is dead – killed at the hands of U.S. Special Forces in an operation deep inside Pakistan. The battle of good versus evil has just tipped in the favor of good. Those ...
Smug credit rating agency perpetuated the financial scam nobody talks about.
Standard & Poor’s, the self-righteous credit-rating agency, has a damn lot of nerve. It provoked scary headlines by solemnly threatening to “short” America by downgrading the credit-worthiness of U.S. Treasury bonds unless Congress and the ...
Movement says those who design, market and use products should be responsible for reusing and recycling them.
Former U.S. Department of Agriculture researcher Bill Sheehan co-founded the Product Policy Institute (PPI) with Helen Spiegelman in 2003, and serves as its executive director. PPI tackles waste from every angle – from championing waste-reduction ...
Fear mongers claim Sharia law as next threat to the United States.
In a strange kind of delayed response, the American public seems to be in a more Islamaphobic mood now than it was right after 9/11, when a few Muslim terrorists transformed planes into bombs. Symptoms ...
As our quality of life sinks lower, time to consider merit pay for Congress.
Public school teachers have taken a beating from politicians, opinion-makers, business and foundation leaders and just about everyone else. Lazy teachers, it is said, have wrecked our public education system. A March 2010 headline in ...
Obama’s security troika runs headfirst into another conflict.
So Obama’s women wanted war against Libya. We’d like to think that women in power would somehow be less pro-war, but in the Obama administration it appears that the bellicosity is worst among Hillary Clinton, ...
U.S. nuclear hubris mixes technological arrogance with profit motive.
Tshe “impossible” is underway in Japan. A 9.0 magnitude earthquake has badly shaken up several “indestructible” nuclear plants. Reactor No. 1 at the quake-damaged Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station is in partial meltdown, and reactor ...
Government aid to Big Pharma hard to swallow.
Our president is doling out welfare payments – unfortunately, to one of the world’s most profitable and socially corrupt industries: pharmaceuticals. Barack Obama’s administration is ponying up $1 billion to create a new branch of ...
A single dominant industry no longer carries the economy, and the time to think small has arrived.
Earlier this month, as Republican House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa held a hearing on “job-killing” government regulations, and President Barack Obama ventured over to the anti-worker U.S. Chamber of Commerce, a different kind of ...
No jobs a-boomin’ in environmental sector, but losses in traditional areas abound.
In his State of the Union speech last month, President Barack Obama planned to “win the future” by, among many other things, having the federal government invest in “clean energy technology – an investment that ...
A Contemptuous Country
In the last 20 years there have been at least 14 mass shootings in the United States in which 134 people have been killed, an average of nearly 10 people for each shooting. In the ...
Cult of thinness battles fat acceptance movement and kids still lose.
As President Obama signs the new federal child nutrition bill, flanked by anti-childhood-obesity crusader Michelle Obama, the culture wars have devolved into a food fight – literally. Yet it is a battle in which the ...
Letters to the Editor for Dec 30, 2010
CANCER AWARENESS January is National Cervical Health Awareness Month. This is an opportunity to remind women to schedule their annual pap tests and appointments for their children to receive the series of HPV vaccine shots, ...
¡Ask A Mexican! for Dec 30, 2010
One man's take on his culture's stereotypes
Dear Readers: The failure by the Senate to pass the DREAM Act – which would’ve made citizens out of young adults who came to this country as children and go to college or join the ...
Squid Fry for Dec 30, 2010
Squid Fry for Dec 30, 2010
DEVELOPER CONJUGATION… Just a few years ago, the noun Gerry Kehoe morphed into a past-tense verb around Oldtown Salinas. The Irish-born real estate developer (yeah, that’s it, developer!) wanted to build an ambitious hotel-and-condo project ...
UFW co-founder is making methyl iodide her new mission.
Dolores Huerta at 80 years old has more energy in her voice than some people half her age. Famous (there are a lot of old timers who likely would use the word “notorious” – and ...
Letters to the Editor for Dec 23, 2010
A Stand for Wild Horses The cruelty and blatant waste of Americans’ hard-earned tax dollars to remove wild horses has reached staggering proportions. The level of disregard, disrespect and criminal behavior the Bureau of Land ...
A season of frustration can easily transform.
I spend a great deal of time (more time, in fact, than would seem reasonable) positing this single question: What’s wrong with people? It’s something of an occupational hazard. The people in question this week ...
Can we disconnect from online media long enough to live our lives?
The blog of a friend kept showing up in my inbox. I felt guilty not reading it each week, and couldn’t get it to go into my junk mail. Then I saw the unsubscribe button. ...
Squid Fry for Dec 23, 2010
Squid Fry for Dec 23, 2010
HIGHER EDUCATION… Squid fondly remembers those heady college days. Drinking with the party-crazed otters, smoking a little seaweed with the mollusks. But Squid never realized one apparently can’t traverse the CSUMB campus without tripping on ...
¡Ask A Mexican! for Dec 16, 2010
One man's take on his culture's stereotypes
Last year I went to Chihuahua and noticed the Mexicans I was traveling with said gras – like a shortened version of gracias. Is this a common thing? Can I say it? Currently Hot Unlike ...
Squid Fry for Dec 16, 2010
Squid Fry for Dec 16, 2010
GO AHEAD, MAKE MY MANTRA… Sometimes Squid stands in front of the mirror, all steely-eyed and sneering, doing the world’s best imitation of a tough former Carmel mayor threatening punks with guns. (No, not Sue ...
Assange is a necessity. Can the same be said for Amazon.com?
By all accounts, jerk is not a big enough word to describe Julian Assange as a human being. His number two man recently defected to start a rival to Assange’s WikiLeaks, saying there was now ...
America’s drug policy a failed experiment in social engineering.
America’s drug policy aims to reduce illicit drug use by arresting and incarcerating dealers and, to a lesser extent, users. Whatever its merits (and there are some), the policy is deeply flawed because it is ...
Letters to the Editor for Dec 16, 2010
Gated Ideology If the Military Avenue, San Pablo Avenue, and Hilby Avenue gates between Seaside and General Jim Moore Boulevard are opened, it is true that traffic on those streets will increase. (“Seaside considers opening ...
Methyl iodide finds friends in unusual places.
Private equity investment – the placement of funds into a company not publicly traded on a stock exchange – is nothing new in agri-business. Examples abound all over the Salinas Valley, from HM Capital Partners ...
Letters to the Editor for Dec 09, 2010
Peace of Freedom Kudos on your cover story on peace activist Phil Butler. (“Phillip Butler fought his way through a violent childhood and captivity at the hands of the North Vietnamese,” Dec. 2-8). I was ...
Vertical farming imagines a utopian future, but can it price out?
Now that there are hardly any farmers left to migrate from the cornfields to the city, farms themselves are poised to make the big move. This, at least, is the premise of Dickson Despommier’s The ...
¡Ask A Mexican! for Dec 09, 2010
One man's take on his culture's stereotypes
Dear Mexican: Why can AeroMexico Airlines fly through any kind of weather conditions to get to and from the United States, but any kind of little ice sprinkle or heavy wind and domestic airlines in ...
Squid Fry for Dec 09, 2010
Squid Fry for Dec 09, 2010
Sensitivity Topic… Squid knows what you’re thinking (like usual): Squid is incapable of the finer emotions – tenderness, love and compassion. Not so. Squid fell in love just the other day, in fact, with Surf ...
Local is good, but cash beats plastic.
Sandwiched between Black Friday (the day bricks-and-mortar retailers hope the red ink on their books will turn black)and Cyber Monday (when URL-ready retailers hope customers will click their way to the biggest online shopping day ...
Squid Fry for Dec 02, 2010
Squid Fry for Dec 02, 2010
NAME THAT FLICK… Squid is a film aficionado, and a huge fan of guessing games too, which makes the free movie nights at the Marina Library double the fun. Though the Marina Library is part ...
¡Ask A Mexican! for Dec 02, 2010
One man's take on his culture's stereotypes
This güero downloaded the Arizona S.B. 1070 bill, did a search on the document for “Mexicans,” and did not come up with a single hit. What’s up with that? So, since you are such an ...
Squid Fry 12.02.11
NAME THAT FLICK… Squid is a film aficionado, and a huge fan of guessing games too, which makes the free movie nights at the Marina Library double the fun. Though the Marina Library is part ...
Letters to the Editor for Dec 02, 2010
FRIGID HEARTS It’s that time of year. The papers and television news are full of stories about the freezing nighttime temperatures on the Monterey Peninsula and people are scurrying about buying and covering their roses ...
Letters to the Editor for Nov 24, 2010
TERRORIZING MOM My mother is 80 years old. My father, who suffered from Alzheimer’s disease, passed away in April of this year. My mother now travels on occasion to visit her children, some of whom ...
Palin is no nature lover – she just plays one on TV.
If the first episode was any indication, Sarah Palin’s Alaska will be as cloying as expected, with family conflict rendered in its most anodyne form, giving Palin ample opportunity to burnish her image as a ...
Squid Fry for Nov 24, 2010
Squid Fry for Nov 24, 2010
LIGHT ON LOVE… Thomas Kinkade once asked one of Squid’s colleagues, “Can 20 million fans be wrong?” At the time, Kinkade was comparing himself to Elvis Presley, which sounded a little extreme, but still, he ...
¡Ask A Mexican! for Nov 24, 2010
One man's take on his culture's stereotypes
Dear Mexican: I am a mutt. My father’s father was an illegal immigrant from Mexico. My mother’s father was an illegal immigrant from Ireland. My surname is Mexican and is usually mispronounced by gabachos and ...
As Boehner postures, we all suffer.
Seemingly from the very second he realized he was the man who would be king, Ohio Republican John Boehner has been beating his anti-health-care-bill drum even more loudly than before. Boehner, who becomes Speaker of ...
Squid Fry for Nov 18, 2010
Squid Fry for Nov 18, 2010
Eastward, Ho!… To keep Squid’s beak sharp and culture current, Squid likes to update Squid’s own real-world dictionary. It’s much more functional than a normal one. Note Squid’s definition for bizarre: Rich Iott – much ...
Letters to the Editor for Nov 18, 2010
Oppositional Opposition To prevent our own extinction, Ms. Costa argues we must avoid “oppositional thinking.” (“Carmel sociobiologist Rebecca Costa dares us to think our way out of extinction,” Nov. 11 – 17). She cites politicians ...
Gore abounds, with Shakespearean underpinnings.
With its putrid zombie horde, The Walking Dead is the ultimate gift for fans of gore: There are splattered heads, swarming flies and enough tattered, rotting flesh to make most watch through splayed fingers. But ...
What does a dollar mean in the greater scheme of things?
First United Methodist Church, along with friends from local Catholic and Episcopal congregations, will pump out about 60,000 meals this year from a small kitchen, feeding the homeless, working poor, children, the elderly and others ...
¡Ask A Mexican! for Nov 18, 2010
One man's take on his culture's stereotypes
Why do you think Argentinians think they are superior to Mexicans and other Latin Americans? Could it be because they have a British island? Che Chingón Dear Wab: One of the few jokes the Mexican ...
¡Ask A Mexican! for Nov 11, 2010
One man's take on his culture's stereotypes
What’s the deal with all the Mexican song lyrics about lágrimas and llorando? We all know most Mexican men are más machos dudes and all that, so why all the songs about tears and crying?Even ...
Letters to the Editor for Nov 11, 2010
TEA PARTY CALL FOR CALM The Tea Party is here. Lots of their folks have been voted into the House. So there are some religious nuts in the Tea Party, and we even have them ...
Squid Fry for Nov 11, 2010
Squid Fry for Nov 11, 2010
DEMENTED AND SAD, BUT SOCIAL… Squid belongs to a number of clubs. There’s the “Cephalopods for Peace” group. There’s the “Viva El Pulpo Paul” organization, honoring the late, great, prognosticating German octopus that correctly predicted ...
Dems’ future lies in Latinos – and Obama’s ability to close his credibility gap with them.
In 2008, Barack Obama won the national Latino vote 67-31. Given the rapid growth of this key demographic, those results augured well not just for Obama’s re-election chances, but for the Democratic Party’s future. It ...
We can only make our community better if we engage in it.
“You live in Salinas? Like, on purpose?” I get that one a lot. It’s true: I live in Salinas, on purpose. I grew up on the South Side of Chicago and came to Salinas more ...
A pasture-raised egg farm only made cents.
It was July. The tomatoes I planted early were late. Drizzle that does not burn off causes mold problems. The tomato future was not bright with a cold, wet summer like this. After almost a ...
Squid Fry for Nov 04, 2010
Squid Fry for Nov 04, 2010
HIGH BIDDERS… Squid had never seriously considered the political ramifications of a late-night fast food run. A chalupa and a Whopper might differ in form, but in the end, they’re both factory-farmed beef served up ...
¡Ask A Mexican! for Nov 04, 2010
One man's take on his culture's stereotypes
While waiting for radiation treatment, I noticed a sign on the wall: “If you are pregnant or may become pregnant… ” The Spanish translation used the word embarazada. Why “embarrassed” to be pregnant for these ...
Letters to the Editor for Nov 04, 2010
TROUBLE WITH TEACHER One of the slogans in the MPUSD is “failure is not an option.” Ayear ago, the school administrators became upset with the number of failing grades being given to high school students. ...
How women style their hair down there connotes class.
Once upon a time, it was risque rather than nostalgic to feature pubic hair in a softcore magazine. Bob Guccione, the founder of Penthouse, changed all that, revealing to millions of readers the physical details ...
Squid Fry for Oct 28, 2010
Squid Fry for Oct 28, 2010
The Guillen-Dollar Question… Will Rich stay or go? Months after former Carmel Human Resources Manager Jane Miller bagged a $600,000 settlement in her lawsuit against City Administrator Rich Guillen, Squid smelled blood in the water. ...
SEIU backs Prop. 19 and courts a hip sector of workers.
The debate over the legalization of marijuana has burned for decades, but has largely been waged between the political establishment and a grassroots movement trying to get the government off its back. But as the ...
Measure P is a wise investment in the Peninsula’s students.
As a parent of a child in the Monterey Peninsula school system, I thought I knew about the condition of our schools because of the many hours I’ve spent volunteering in the classroom over the ...
Letters to the Editor for Oct 28, 2010
POLITICAL LULLABYE A little girl asked her daddy if all fairy tales begin with “Once upon a time… ” “No, dear,” he replied. “Many of them start with ‘If I’m elected… ’” Bill Cox | ...
A look at what insiders are saying as the Giants open the World Series in San Francisco.
Turns out the blogosphere is particularly well-suited to spread the lore of the San Francisco Giants. What follows is a compilation of local and national posts from smarty-pants of all stripes in advance of the ...
¡Ask A Mexican! for Oct 28, 2010
One man's take on his culture's stereotypes
Dear Mexican: I majored in history at the University of Arizona in Tucson, which I believe was part of the Gadsden Purchase, the last piece of old Mexico the U.S. “acquired.” That got me thinking: ...
Squid Fry for Oct 21, 2010
Squid Fry for Oct 21, 2010
CONNECT THE DOTS… When Squid learned the feds are charging MoneyDots radio host Barbra Alexander with allegedly running a Ponzi scheme that defrauded local investors, Squid couldn’t help being reminded of one of Alexander’s old ...
Letters to the Editor for Oct 21, 2010
ESPRESSO FOR BRAINS I was sitting in one of those Lighthouse Avenue coffee bars the other day while a group of 20-something espresso heads were chuckling over Christine O’Donell’s latest bizarro pronouncement and generally feeling ...
Pacific Grove Public Library needs the proposed parcel tax.
Measure Q, a parcel tax on the Nov. 2 ballot, had its beginnings in the Library Summit of February 2010, when more than 100 citizens came out to share ideas for the funding and improvement ...
The NFL’s breast cancer blitz shows it is as fragile as Brett Favre’s reputation.
You may have noticed an abundance of pink in the National Football League this month. Between the pink sneakers, pink mouth guards, and pink wristbands, one would be excused for wondering how the machismo-drenched league ...
Endorsements Pt II
The Weekly’s picks for local candidates and measures in the Nov. 2 election. (Unopposed offices are not endorsed.)
COUNTY SHERIFF/CORONER | Scott Miller Incumbent Sheriff Mike Kanalakis has a tough job. In the most contentious and commented-on race in the county, there’s zero debate about that. Only problem is, he’s often the first ...
Letters to the Editor for Oct 14, 2010
TOUGH LESSON I am a senior at Seaside High and a supporter of Measure P (See story, p. 10). For the past four years, I have witnessed a school whose foundation has nearly broken apart. ...
¡Ask A Mexican! for Oct 14, 2010
One man's take on his culture's stereotypes
Dear Mexican: What is it with the Mexican hang-up on body parts? When General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna was struck by a cannonball at the knee in one of his 8,000 wars, his right ...
Squid Fry for Oct 14, 2010
Squid Fry for Oct 14, 2010
FIELD HOCKEY… Back in the end of September, when Salinas Valley temps reached 100 degrees, California Rural Legal Assistance attorney Michael Marsh thought he could prevent heat strokes and even deaths (the last few years ...
Letters to the Editor for Oct 07, 2010
FIRE WITH FIRE This week the Weekly featured a commentary by Seaside City Manager Ray Corpuz [“Peninsula city managers make the case for a fire merger,” Sept. 30-Oct. 6]. The Seaside Firefighters are one of ...
Endorsements
The Weekly editorial board’s recommendations on state and national choices in the Nov. 2 election.
NATIONAL OFFICES U.S. SENATE | Barbara Boxer Boxer shouldn’t be facing such a tough re-election campaign. Her opponent, Carly Fiorina, is a hard-right global-warming denier who by most accounts couldn’t even control her own boardroom ...
Squid Fry for Oct 07, 2010
Squid Fry for Oct 07, 2010
FOUL AIR… Squid loves Squid some KUSP Public Radio. The only moments of Squid’s weekend better than Sunday’s caviar-and-anchovy-schmeared bagel are “Talk of the Bay” and “Ask Dr. Dawn.” That’s what makes the board’s recent ...
Peninsula city managers make the case for a fire merger.
The proposed Monterey Peninsula Regional Fire Consolidation needs to be supported and approved. It is a sound proposal and compares favorably with all of the other alternatives that have been suggested. Here’s how it would ...
Letters to the Editor for Sep 30, 2010
DON’T ASK THE MEXICAN I’ll cut to the chase: There simply isn’t anything funny or entertaining about “Ask a Mexican.” My mother – a self-respectingMexican who used to pick the crops in Morgan Hill as ...
¡Ask A Mexican! for Sep 30, 2010
One man's take on his culture's stereotypes
SPECIAL DREAM EDICIÓN Dear Mexican: Why is it so hard to find an educated Mexican – or hell – even a Latino man who isn’t a pretentious hijo de papi, or thinks he is a ...
Squid Fry for Sep 30, 2010
Squid Fry for Sep 30, 2010
PITY THE FOOLS… Squid’s morning ritual with the daily newspaper is probably not that different from those few landlubbers who still subscribe to the paper. You know, a solid 80 or 90 seconds to digest ...
Letters to the Editor for Sep 23, 2010
C’MON, MEAT HEADS After reading “Perfect Pairing” (“The Highlands’ Paul Fried and Matt Bolton combine talents to deliver an impressive wine dinner series,” Sept. 16-22), an account of fancy multi-course meals offered at the Highlands ...
Assemblyman Bill Monning samples from his new paperback.
Too often, discussions of complex issues are reduced to sound bites. So I recommended to state Assemblyman Bill Monning (D-Carmel) that he write a book that would discuss his vision for our state. Not long ...
¡Ask A Mexican! for Sep 23, 2010
One man's take on his culture's stereotypes
Dear Mexican: What punishment could America give that would FINALLY make crossing America’s borders – repeatedly – unpalatable to Mexicans? Remember, our original immigration requirements were “good moral character” and a “working knowledge of English.” ...
Squid Fry for Sep 23, 2010
Squid Fry for Sep 23, 2010
Unfriending the Sheriff… Squid would have thought that Rule One of being a capable politician is correctly distinguishing between friend and frenemy, helper and hater – and most importantly, endorser and person who doesn’t much ...
People are at their smartest when they blend their brains with machines.
Which are smarter, humans or machines? Back in 1997, IBM’s Deep Blue supercomputer struck a blow for bots when it beat Garry Kasparov at chess. Deep Blue won because computers can perform endless lightning-fast calculations; ...
Letters to the Editor for Sep 16, 2010
Shelf the Library Tax No one disputes Pacific Grove’s library is the most used and best loved institution in our community. Battle lines are being drawn between proponents of a $6 million parcel tax to ...
Squid Fry for Sep 16, 2010
Squid Fry for Sep 16, 2010
LET FREEMAN RING… On Squid’s slimy desk, marinating in spilled coffee and sprayed ink, sits a thick folder called the Only-in-Carmel Irony File. It just got thicker, with new plans for e-mail policy and openness ...
Domestic dad is more than just a hot piece of status.
People over the years have called me many things. My favorites include: wordsmith, Next in Line and, of course, Beaver – because it rhymes with my last name. If I don’t ease off the pizza ...
¡Ask A Mexican! for Sep 16, 2010
One man's take on his culture's stereotypes
Dear Mexican: I work at a large Orange County hotel where 80 percent of the employees are Latin American, primarily Mexican. I love working with them. However, one thing that bothers me is that when ...
