Editor's Essays

	If You Are Counting Errors, Please Don’t — Unless It’s Obama’s Latest Whopper By Ari L. Noonan @ 4:00 PM July 23, 2008 Found in: Editor's Essays If mistakes were wallpaper, we could cover Culver City this afternoon, something we endeavor to do 5 days week anyway. Ring up one more gaffe. read
	Camarella and Karlo Carry Stains No Dry Cleaner Can Remove By Ari L. Noonan @ 3:00 PM July 22, 2008 Found in: Editor's Essays The City Council did not make bad choices last night — just wrong ones, quite wrong ones — for appointments to 2 city commissions, Civil Service, and Parks and Recreation. The reason for their very personal gaffe is not a mystery, just an exasperation. The result of their tilted voting — the overt snubbing of the candidates Tom Camarella and Karlo Silbiger — was as predictable as the Gregorian calendar or, in my case, ex-wives. read
	What Times Is It? Who Knows? But It Ain’t McCain’s, for Sure By Ari L. Noonan @ 4:00 PM July 21, 2008 Found in: Editor's Essays With 98 percent of American media openly rooting for Barack Obama to win the White House, and 92 percent of them volunteering to drive him there, Mr. Obama’s campaign has just scored another unique victory. read
	Parks’ Ill-Advised Letter Calls Into Question the State of His Judgment By Ari L. Noonan @ 2:00 PM July 17, 2008 Found in: Editor's Essays If Bernard Parks either composed or approved of the whining letter (see below) about The New Yorker that appeared over his name this morning in the Los Angeles Times, he should lower his head to half-mast, wheel on his well-shined right shoe and depart, wordlessly, from the room. read
	In New York and L.A., the Times Does a 3-Step on McCain: Ready, Aim, Fire By Ari L. Noonan @ 6:00 AM July 16, 2008 Found in: Editor's Essays Until Monday, this was threatening to become the first Presidential campaign in modern times in which the Democratic Presidential candidate was granted exclusively favorable coverage, by what is called the Mainstream Media, and the Republican drew only critical attention. read
	Hospital Sound System: Calling the Rev. Doctor. He Is Wanted Urgently in Surgery By Ari L. Noonan @ 10:00 AM July 14, 2008 Found in: Editor's Essays The Rev. Jesse Jackson’s one-time-only offer last week to perform soprano surgery on Barack Obama, without billing him, still was being rejected as late as yesterday by Mr. Obama. Mr. Jackson, equally, was being rejected by the Obama camp. This makes two statements about the Democratic nominee: He does not change his mind on every subject, and he still yearns to sing bass in a church choir. read
	Oh, Princess, Where Were You? Why Did You Blow Off Last Night’s Meeting? By Ari L. Noonan @ 3:00 PM July 11, 2008 Found in: Editor's Essays We could start with the premise that Yvonne (Ms. Empty of 1960 or so) Brathwaite Burke is a sterling candidate for Most Overrated Politician in Los Angeles County. Mayor I Love Me is a serious enough challenger for her to feel his breath. But in honor of her 16 years’ too late retirement, let’s award her the crown of ignominy. read
	Does It Really Make a Difference, Spanish or English? By Ari L. Noonan @ 12:00 PM July 09, 2008 Found in: Editor's Essays Last week, the Los Angeles Times dispatched a sobbing girl reporter to sympathetically cover the pending deportation of a divorced, illegal Mexican immigrant father, thereby tragically and unfairly depriving a 10-year-old boy of a desperately needed parent. This week, the Los Angeles Times dispatched a sobbing girl reporter to UCLA to present a sympathetic portrait of academic America’s hot new export, “undocumented graduates.” In the stirring locution of the Times, the occasion was described as “a ceremony for graduating UCLA students, both documented and undocumented.” read
	Saying Hello — and Goodbye to Adele and Henry By Ari L. Noonan @ 6:00 PM July 07, 2008 Found in: Editor's Essays The first time I met Adele and Henry Siegel was in their parlor a number of years ago on Christmas Day. They were Jewish, and so was I. Therefore, I hoped we could proceed directly into our interview without any tinsel to slow us. But first, I was struck by my surroundings on an overcast and chilly day. How dark the room seemed. My vision was fine, but didn’t they want illumination instead of heavy shadows? read
	So It’s a Hot Day. What’s Melting — Ice Cream or Obama’s ‘Beliefs’? By Ari L. Noonan @ 12:00 PM July 04, 2008 Found in: Editor's Essays Amazingly, and disappointingly, Barack Obama has publicly stated more positions on the war this week than a Tijuana prostitute assumes while entertaining an afternoon’s worth of clients. His gushing views, seldom rigid, keep changing like the rushing waters of a creek: His clearly voiced opinions don’t stay within your sightlines long enough for you to judge, maturely, their nature and how closely they align with yours. read