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The U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change just completed their report how human activity affects our climate.  The bottom line is this: if we humans do not change our behavior right now,…

Yesterday was Earth Day and that got me to thinking (again) about how interconnected everything is on this planet. We humans depend on each other for our survival and even…

The Zinn Education Project reminded us last weekend of the 100th anniversary of something that no one should forget: the Ludlow Massacre.  (Thanks to Carol Moore for passing this along.)…

Here’s the breaking news from tonight’s Irvine Council meeting — according to sources on the scene! Jeff Lalloway will be on the Site Selection committee, as expected, but Agran won’t;…

I was in high school when the first Earth Day was officially declared a holiday, (actually it was more an acknowledgement) and a time to draw attention to the problems our…

First off, am I a bad man?  A hypocrite, a holder of double standards? I’m just sayin’, because generally I’m always agitating for more democracy, direct democracy, bring this burning…

December 2014, Cargill purchased twenty-five percent plus one share of indirect interest in the grain terminal Kombinat Stroykomplekt (KSK), located in the port of Novorossiysk Russia. This purchase gives Cargill…

OJB hopes that those of you who enjoy Easter are doing so in good spirits today.  My Easter post from two years ago has been getting a lot of of hits…

We Americans are apparently so starved for a “homespun hero” that we’ll manufacture one from a deadbeat sociopath in a Stetson.  Has it been so long since we’ve seen true…

Take a moment to reflect on a potential decision.  Let’s say you’re charged with building a new state-of-the-art high school for one of the top performing school districts in the…

“… he slipped into the first shadows trying to hide a shame which was in the public domain and which everyone commented upon on the street, it gave birth to…

Self-deprecatory humor — that’s what the title of this post is, which I explain given the almost certainty that Dan Chmielewski doesn’t get it — generally does not play well in…

In light of the recent arrests of two registered sex offenders in connection with four murders in Orange County, I’d like to share an article that I originally wrote a…

UPDATE: Meeting was apparently postponed until this morning and was to begin at 10:00. 1. Big Labor Meeting Will Discuss ‘the Greg Diamond Problem’ As the moon rises tonight, it…

  Restaurant employees will file a class action lawsuit in LA Superior Court this Wednesday. Workers allege management at the Daily Grill restaurant, located in the Westin Hotel, has underpaid them by $.40-$.60…

Allan Mansoor’s promised AB 2036 to address the Toll Lanes controversy in our county – let’s say, to bring this important transportation question under democratic control in a county that’s…

Cliven Bundy, the sixty year-old rancher, along with hundreds of “armed” supporters, some  on horseback and wearing cowboy hats, successfully got the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to return his cattle, and retreated from…

Here’s a “cute story” that isn’t cute at all: Slate as an article up right now entitled “Hillary Clinton Ducks Flying Shoe Thrown During Las Vegas Speech” that shows the…