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Well well well, we see how it is going to go in the coming Trump administration. Today was the blueprint. After insisting that he never settles lawsuits, the President-Elect settled the Trump University lawsuit for $25 mIllion. This disturbed the news cycle domination of his meeting with Mitt Romney, the biggest news coming out of…

I had to break the news to my wife that Trump might win. We'd been in that bubble that believed he did not have a chance. A comfortable place. We had gone to see two movies that Tuesday afternoon so that we could avoid any bluster he made about the thing being rigged. Our plan…

RIP Tom Hayden, 76. My grandparents fought the eminent domain of their property in the Ocean Park neighborhood of Santa Monica in the 1950s to the point that the city "settled" with them by giving them a turn of the century Victorian home a block from the beach between Neilsen and PCH back when that…

0. 1974 SHITWORKER at my dad’s machine shop – this one is listed as ZERO because it does not count on the list of seven JOBS because it was family forced labor, it was mandatory, you can quit a job but the only time off from this work was when I managed to get any…

I predict that Hillary Clinton will win the 2016 Presidential Election. Sure I can base this prediction on common sense and what I WANT to happen, but HOPE is the #2 enemy of the objective forecaster (#1 is “worry”). So I wanted to objectively look at the situation thru the astrological birth charts of her…

This artist was miserable. He had never quite gone to the heights career-wise that he felt his art had achieved and that he, therefore, deserved. The art world is the epitome of “Many are called, few are chosen.” A lot of artists give up on the art world, on pursuing exhibitions and many give up…