I have a new love -- and it is not a home or a man or a car. It is an edgy Showtime television suburban satire,"Weeds", in which Mary Louise Parker plays a widowed soccer mom, Nancy Botwin, in a fictional subdivision of Los Angeles called Agrestic. Nancy struggles with her husband's sudden death from a heart attack and agonizes how she'll support h

David Fowkes is an expert on Stanford football for the Bay Area Examiner. Dave asked me if I we could exchange five questions each about the big game on Saturday. Click on his link because he could use a few page views over at his site.After leaving the seeds floating in the shot glass for 24 to 48 hours give them a tap and see if they sink to the

After the initial six interviews with my brother Police Officer and Detective Howard Wooldridge of Lansing, Michigan (retired) concerning the"War on Drugs", more and more Americans understand the underpinnings of how the U.S. government protracts a national taxpayer fraud. How big a fraud? Taxpayers forked over $1 trillion in 36 years paying for th

One of the top beaches in Southern California is the north end of Ocean Beach. Someone unfamiliar with this beach scene may presume it to be just a freak fest, or a surfer's haven, clothing sun bathing. Nope, not even close, it is Dog Beach. Folks, beauty that is oceanic, love all rolled into one, and canines. This example is merely a microcosm of

Los Angeles is sort of a melting pot of ideas and people. It is kind of a filled with vain people, according to the pages and pages of plastic surgery advertisements in almost any L.A. publication. It's a hard working town in the entertainment industry, while being vain occasionally, and kind of lax. Considering most parties don't start until 9 or