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	Turning Out the Lights on the South Sepulveda Scheme By Ari L. Noonan @ 3:00 AM September 20, 2007 Found in: Sports Curious, isn’t it, that after the community roared in defiance when plans were announced a year ago for massively reshaping South Sepulveda Boulevard, there was only an inaudible whimper this week when the project officially died? When the City Council announced at Monday night’s meeting that its experiment with high-flying developer Bob Champion officially was a failure, the door formally slammed shut on South Sepulveda — for the foreseeable future. The only sound since to pierce the cool Culver City air was the sigh of relief from merchants on the west side of South Sepulveda. read
	Silbiger’s Question of the Week — Affordable Housing in an Office Building? By Ari L. Noonan @ 3:00 AM September 19, 2007 Found in: Sports I was going to recount a collegial visit with City Councilman Gary Silbiger in front of Fire Station No. 1 at 6:30 one morning last week, the day of the 9/11 observance. For the 50th time in the 5 1/2 years that Mr. Silbiger has been on the Council, I was going to remark what a dandy chap he is, not necessarily a raconteur, but a very decent sort. All of which is prologue, as you may have suspected, to his latest gaffe, direct from the dais, in plain view. What makes Mr. Silbiger such a fascinating character study is that, in the tradition of the City Council’s all-time icon, Albert Vera Sr., he, too, has a steel-strong, devoted colony of worshipful followers. With reverential fervor, they consecrate every breath he draws. read
	Separate Classrooms for Whites, Browns and Blacks? Sure Sounds That Way By Ari L. Noonan @ 3:00 AM September 16, 2007 Found in: Sports I have huffed, I have puffed, I have read journals in pigeon Spanish and in ebonics. Still, I cannot discern a consensus liberal position on matters of race in America. Do liberals think that Latinos and blacks, as they now patronizingly group the academic underclass, were born inferior to you and me? Notice that liberals don’t say “immigrants and blacks” because that would include Asians. And as all sober boys, girls — and liberals — in America know, Asians, like Jews, make education of their children a priority. Since they, too, are minorities, label-loving liberals have to be careful. read
	Why the Lustre Suddenly Has Been Drained Out of Sept. 11 By Ari L. Noonan @ 3:00 AM September 12, 2007 Found in: Sports Reflections going into the Rosh Hashana holiday when the newspaper will be dark until Sunday: Remember in the old days, four or five years ago, when Americans were in the process of canonizing Sept. 11? Some facile thinkers suggested that 9/11, as it came to be known, soon would rival July 4 as America’s premier patriotic celebration? Overnight, Rudy Giuliani, the wildly successful crackdown mayor of New York City, became known as America’s Mayor. His stern countenance, his heroic declarations and his ubiquitous presence throughout the darkest, most fearful days of the Sept. 11 crisis were enthusiastically praised as the forever-models of modern day government leadership. read
	Your Turn, Mr. Fulwood: Where Were You This Morning? By Ari L. Noonan @ 3:00 AM September 11, 2007 Found in: Sports Try stiffening your right arm and pushing it against the nearest wall, for leverage, before I disclose the following information. The city sponsored a worthy civic event shortly after dawn this morning, less than a tee-shot east of the Culver City Kremlin, which some still call City Hall. (I don’t know why since the Culver City Kremlin operates behind a thicker wall of obsessive secrecy than the Soviet Kremlin did. Certain fanatical persons walk around cross-eyed all day to avoid seeing their own shadow.) read
	Why Does Every Candidate Mimic the Same Answer? By Ari L. Noonan @ 3:00 AM September 07, 2007 Found in: Sports Thoughts assembled while pondering the community’s formal observance of the 6th anniversary of Sept. 11 at 6:30 a.m. Tuesday, Downtown, in front of Fire Station 1: Shrewdly, I suppressed a yawn on Wednesday night at the Culver City Democratic Club meeting when the 2 Democratic candidates for the School Board mimicked what all candidates — good or bad — are obliged to mimic about classroom teachers. read
	She Scolds Dem Club for Showing Their Partisan ship By Martha Gunther @ 3:00 AM September 05, 2007 Found in: Sports I was appalled to hear that the Democratic Club Candidates Night for the School Board candidates this evening will include only Democrats. Appalled, but not surprised. In the 2004 City Council election, when I openly supported Steve Rose, a known Republican, I was severely chastised in print by Darryl Cherness, a major player in our local Democratic Club. Mr. Cherness informed me that I could no longer call myself a Democrat if I was voting for a Republican, albeit in a non-partisan election. read
	Weeks Later, She Remembers She Forget Her Son. Darn By Ari L. Noonan @ 3:00 AM September 04, 2007 Found in: Sports I see by the weekend newspapers that one of the despicable women of recent news cycles, Elvira Arellano, has dropped her moral guard again and returned to her old ways. After behaving like the Mexican Floozie of the Year for 2 weeks in the border town of Tijuana and points south, Ms. Arellano, voted the Mexican Deportee of the Month for August, sent for her private trophy. That would be her 8-year-old son, Saul, whom she may or may not have conceived for the express purpose for which she has been using the kid lately — to be her ticket to tears from sob sisters in the liberal media. It is working. read
	A Liberal Tale With a Terrific Kick at the End By Ari L. Noonan @ 3:00 AM August 31, 2007 Found in: Sports Walking east on Braddock Drive early this morning, shortly after sunrise, the artful juxtaposition of the fluffy clouds and the ball of fire they were hopelessly trying to shield, formed one of the breathtaking scenes of my considerable life. This was a vision even an atheist, with imagination, could learn to love. read
	Get Some Sleep — I’ll See You at 5:20 Monday Morning By Ari L. Noonan @ 3:00 AM August 24, 2007 Found in: Sports With adroitness, craftiness and penetratingly incisive insight that is to be envied as well as admired, my talented colleague Frederick Sisa so surgically slices up, then deftly pins his targets, reversing the inside with the outside, whether his subject is a politically infragrant human or a play. On summer evenings when Diane and I sentimentally place our pea-green rocking chairs at right angles before our vacationing fireplace, she to knit, I to ponder, I tend to repeat myself. “Tis a pity,” she hears me murmur. read

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