I did a triathlon last Sunday. Are you impressed? Well, I suppose you should temper you oohs and aahs with the knowledge that I hiked, biked, and swam all in a day, but just a little of each— a triathlon only of my own making all locally in Burbank and Glendale. But hey, the hike [...]

Unbelievably, two weeks in a row we’re having winners of this award, given to someone or an organization whose depravity is such as to defy easy description. It is inspired by the Armenian saying, “He’s so shameless, if you spit in his face, he’d think it’s rain.” They seem to be lining up to get [...]

Once again we have multiple winners of this oh-so-“coveted” prize. They are linked as much by coincidence of timing as by substance and personalities. You’ll see what I mean. As a reminder, this is something I award, to someone or an organization whose depravity is such as to defy easy description. It is inspired by [...]

Let’s have some fun with the brazen absurdities that the right wing of American political life espouses. I’ve tried to tease out what they mean with their terms, and here’s what I’ve gotten, in alphabetical order.
“Bipartisanship.” In this case, the Republican Party demonstrates a new, non-Latin based meaning for “bi.” It seems to mean, “Do [...]

It seems to be a time of centennials. 2011 is the 100th of the city I live in, Burbank, and the chapter of the Sierra Club I belong to, the Angeles. Plus, four years ago, I had the pleasure to attend one of my grand-aunts’ 100th. Then, on the far gloomier side, we have 2015 [...]

Recent examples of science at work through research and exploration abound. Two of interest to Armenians: the almost six millennium-old shoe and findings about Mayan use of rubber (one of the main researchers is an Armenian).
Basic studies in science have provided the basis for the technologies that have given us the tremendous improvements in quality [...]

The morning of the day I was to write this week’s piece, I heard part of Democracy Now!’s follow-up piece about the incident that led to the trilateral—police officer, president, professor—beer summit last summer. It seems the Cambridge Police Department was due to release a report about the incident on this day. Being interviewed was [...]

Ah yes, everything is just as it should be in the corporate bought-and-paid for U.S. of A! Some idiot Louisiana federal judge has found the president of said country to be out of line, maybe even reckless, for imposing a six-month moratorium on deepwater offshore oil drilling. Perhaps he inhabits a different plane of existence [...]

Of course “gov” means cow in Armenian, in case someone didn’t know. The title was chosen because in the realm of improving government, all kinds of people at all levels seem to be voting for ways to make government, or at least its election, worse!
Let’s look at the June 8 California election and SCOTUS’s (Supreme [...]

Israel screwed up in its response to the ships attempting to break its blockade of Gaza. Anything it might have gained by preventing the entry of material it chooses to exclude from Gaza is far outweighed by the international opprobrium it has garnered. But this is not at issue except by extreme spinners of pro-Israel [...]