The Netflix Coup, Subscribers Jumping Ship
So you were paying $9.99 for streaming video and 2 DVD’s a month from Netflix. Now, you either have to choose between streaming and DVD or pay an additional $6.00…
Hey! That’s Not What a Sidewalk is For!
By K.D. Wallis, Contributing Columnist I was walking with my dog on Ventura Boulevard the other day when we stumbled upon something that was at once disturbing and frightening to…
Help Create Whale Sanctuaries
The Caribbean is a well-known tourism destination, attracting many people from expert divers to novice snorkelers for its amazing coral reefs and abundance of marine life, including whales. In fact,…
Be A Hero For Hens
You can help put an end to one of the most inhumane practices in Canadian farming by choosing to buy only cage-free eggs. Nearly all of Canada’s eggs come from…
Boycott Everything Canadian!
It’s terrible to imagine: The merciless slaughter of baby seals has started on the ice floes off Canada’s east coast — completely defenseless animals beaten and shot to death for…
Thank the U.N. for Standing Up for the LGBT Community
In an effort to end the violence and discrimination that the LGBT community faces on a daily basis, the United Nations recently approved a resolution that condemns discrimination on the…
Stop the Senseless Slaughter of Australian Camels
Australia has the largest population of undiseased dromedary camels anywhere in the world. Now, the Australian government is proposing to slaughter the majority of them in the name of carbon…
Is Facebook Killing People?
More and more stories are popping up in the headlines where children are dying because the mother’s are too involved in Facebook, its applications, and games and where the social…
Redistricting is not Rocket Science
By Horace H. Heidt When I ran for the Assembly in California in 1992 I was shocked to discover that the San Fernando Valley, a suburb of Los Angeles, was…
From the Sidelines 6-20-11
By Irving Leemon, Contributing Columnist Why is that we continue to put up with the airlines’ treating us like cattle and not like paying customers? We, the general flying public,…