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Why I support marriage equality when I don’t really believe in marriage.
I never wanted to walk down the aisle in a white dress. I never fantasized about what my wedding would look like or where my honeymoon would be. Perhaps I wasn’t a “normal” teenaged girl, or maybe...
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Do Trees Have Standing? Space Shuttle Endeavour Remix
Majestic Canary Island Pine on Crenshaw slated for Removal.Should Trees have standing? When I was in law school, required reading was Christopher Stone’s essay: Should Trees Have Standing? –Toward...
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Requiem for a Space Shuttle (Endeavour)
60 ft + Carnary Island Pine (Pinus canariensis) removed for transport of Endeavour Space Shuttle down Crenshaw Blvd. (photos by Paula Lauren Gibson/AfroPix Creator God, you make all things and weave...
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Music In 2012: Ten Things I’ll Remember
Another thing to remember – SPIN Mag published my photo of fIREHOSE with their Coachella writeup! We learn journalistic opportunism as we go. Photo by Bob Lee for the Los Angeles Beat. 1. The E!...
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Op-Ed: Texas Executes so Many People it Can’t Afford to Buy them a Burger
Texas is all over the news this week. First, the state prisons stopped serving lunch on weekends, saying, “If they don’t like the menu they shouldn’t come here.” Maybe I’m a bleeding heart liberal, but...
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What I am thankful for:
My mom (an angel in heaven), my family, my family history, my cats, mother ocean and my photography!
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Chicken Politics
I know, Chick-Fil-A lovers, it’s a bitter pill to swallow. Chick-Fil-A is finally opening up around town, meaning no more tedious drives into Torrance. And now this. According to Equality Matters,...
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Prop 8: Not Quite There Yet
On Nov. 4, 2008, Americans held their heads up high knowing they elected the first black president. But also on that day 7,001,084 Californians voted to strip gay Californians of the right to marry,...
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Whitney Houston, Rest in Peace
I was truly saddened to hear of the death of Whitney Houston last night. Not because I consider myself a fan, I wasn’t, but because yet another gifted artist was unable to slay her dragons. Whitney had...
View ArticleThe George Zimmerman Verdict – A View From the Jury Room.
In yet another example of the news media botching its legal analysis of another high profile Murder trial, there is outrage, rioting and possibly undue violence occurring on the streets of America as...
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