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Joe Luca
Opinion: Can We Admit It - Most Americans Don’t Care If Justice Thomas Accepts Gifts, But What If It Was Pres. Biden?
The economic numbers for the first two years of Biden’s administration have been much better than the four years under Trump. Unemployment is down to very low numbers. Infrastructure improvements are kicking in producing new jobs and safer roads, bridges, and so on.
Opinion: Baseball Players Fighting on TV - So, How Old Are These Guys Anyway?
Major League Baseball announced on Monday that 3 players and 3 coaches are getting suspensions for their part in Saturday’s benches-clearing brawl between the Cleveland Guardians and the Chicago White Sox.
Opinion/Satire: Slavery Was a Good Thing, Honest. It Just Took Us a While to Figure it Out. Thanks, Gov. DeSantis
Some things take time to seep in. Somebody tells us something cool on Tuesday and wham! We don’t get it until Saturday night. It happens all the time. But at least we eventually get it, right?
Opinion: Money, Money, Mo-ney. In Sports It Never Seems Enough
The French Media outlet, L’Equipe reported on Monday that PSG (Paris St. Germain) a perennial winner in France’s Ligue 1, was ready to accept a humongous offer from Al Hilal, a Saudia Arabia football team for PSG’s great striker Kylian Mbappe.
Opinion: Tips Jars Are Everywhere - Are Employers Not Paying Enough?
It used to be that a tip was given for a service rendered. Deliver the pancakes hot and the milk cold to the table, get the order right and you got a 15% tip. Today if you hand over the right dry cleaning, or get the correct change at Ace Hardware, there’s a tip jar primed with two $5 bills at the bottom waiting for your generosity.
Opinion: When the Supreme Court Stops Working for Americans - This is What Happens
Six Supreme Court justices ended Affirmative Action yesterday: which was totally essential to all Americans trying to get a fair education or totally bogus and only a means of getting students into good colleges who couldn’t make it on their own.
Satire: Artificial Intelligence and All the Great Things It Does - Just Kidding
Warning: a more stimulating image from AI a little farther down - but first . . . And in growing waves of acceptance demanding that we all pay attention and listen up because AI will be in our lives whether we want it or not.
Uber Eats & DoorDash vs. LA School Cafeteria Food - Guess Who’s Winning?
LA School cafeterias -- loud, busy, barely controlled chaos - serving up the best food money can buy. Most cafeterias in practice are extensions of fast-food restaurants down the road. Pizza, Tacos, hot dogs, and an assortment of mac & cheese, trucked in frozen and served up hot to students throughout the day.
Opinion: Biden's Not Too Old To Be President - Just Our Ideas About It Are
Wasn’t it Sen. Kyrsten Sinema that gave us a colorful quote recently about senate luncheons (of the Democratic variety) being filled with old dudes eating Jell-O? When that pithy comment was made, was it an ageist statement or simply accurate?
Opinion: Saudi PIF Buys, Sorry, Merges With PGA Tour - What's Next?
"Listen, I think I’ve been pretty clear on this: I don’t see [a truce] happening," Monahan said then. "When you look at where we are, and you think about words and actions, we’re currently in a lawsuit. So, coming together and having conversations, to me, that card is off the table, and it has been for a long period of time." (From Commissioner Jay Monahan in Sept. 2022)
Opinion: Selling LGBTQIA+ Merchandise is Not Evil and Demonic- Why Would Anyone Think It Was?
Everyone likes to be thought of as an expert in their field. Be it corporate finance, stock brokering, plumbing, or even baseball. But sometimes, with a little hubris, or too little self-reflection, we venture out over the edge into a space we know little or nothing about and like Wile E Coyote, plummet a thousand feet to a self-inflicted reckoning below.
Gondolas Over LA - Are We Ready for Them?
When one hears the word gondola one immediately thinks of Venice Italy and the small boats taxiing tourists around that ancient city. But for Los Angeles, it speaks to a whole different vehicle. In our case a small cabin/car suspended by cables that transports people from one location to another. Like the base of a mountain up to the top of a ski run. Or for LA, transporting fans from Union Station to Dodger Stadium.
The NFL Is Playing it Safe with New Kickoff Rule - Or Is It?
Have you ever gotten up a good head of steam while running, then suddenly veered left straight into a wall?. In the NFL, to start a game there’s what’s called a kickoff. A ritual where one team lines up their players, roughly in midfield, with the opposing team’s players facing them a few yards away, and then kicks the ball downfield to an additional player waiting to catch the ball and get things started.
Opinion: Social Media, a Trip Down the Rabbit Hole or Just Having Fun?
In themselves, in their neighbors, workmates, and relatives back in New York. They want to know how everyone is doing, how the reunion went, if their brother got the ’52 Buick running, and if Grandma is doing okay.
Opinion: The Queen Said Meghan Markle Was Evil, So It Must Be True, Right?
A writer in the British tabloid, The Spectator, claimed a “royal source” told her that Queen Elizabeth had some unkind words for Meghan Markle. Revealed a few months before her passing, the Queen called her relationship and eventual marriage to Prince Harry, a complete catastrophe and that in a word, the woman was evil.
Opinion: Basketball, Guns, I'm Sorry, We're Shocked, and More - What Happens Next?
The Video surfaced on Instagram last weekend. Ja Morant holding another gun while riding in a car driven by a friend. By Tuesday the NBA commissioner had commented on it - he was shocked. By Tuesday Ja Morant had issued another apology, stating that he knew he had disappointed others. That he was still on a journey and he had more to do to fix himself.
They Fired The Wrong Guy, Sorry Doc Rivers. Try Again?
Doc Rivers just got fired again, this time as coach of the Philadelphia 76ers. This bit of déjà vu must be haunting him right about now. When do the wins and losses on the court have more to do with how the players are playing than how the coach is coaching?
Opinion: Methinks King Charles Is Too Full of Himself. Do you agree?
Note: The Photo that prompted this article is copyrighted but linked here, so you'll know the history behind this. I liked Queen Elizabeth. I lived in England in the late 1970s and got to see her - from a distance of course - and she was everything the press said she was.
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