Joel J. Rane

Greetings, friends, I felt like sending out a leaner, meaner screed to those who believe in CALIFORNIA LIBRE...if only because the sun is out again, the nights are sultry and the jacarandas are in full bloom.  I also have an important scientific theory to correct.  First, though, some brief...

Greetings, friends, The winter of 2008-2009 just evaporated from a blur into nothing, into that flash in the rear-view that you thought was a cop, but was just some eroded fragment of glass on the shoulder.  The last screed I spattered in your general direction was just after the Winter...

Greetings, friends, I'm off on a two-day hike to the Bridge to Nowhere, but I wouldn't want to leave you high 'n dry for the Great Resurrection Holiday.  A new screed is coming soon!  In the meantime, some movies that might tide you over and bring you favor in the eyes of THE LORD.  And some of...

Greetings, friends, Alas, no holiday card again this year.  Not that it hasn't been a year of changes...huge changes.  I was suddenly laid off in February by my employer of 11 years, the City of Los Angeles, but after some months of flailing I found a new place with the City of Inglewood. ...

Greetings, friends, Was it only ninety years ago that our great-grandfathers were dying in the trenches?  Everybody's talking about how far America has come (and how far it hasn't.)  Let's pause to accept a timid pat on the back on behalf of the whole world.  We are way too sophisticated to...

Greetings, friends, It was a quiet Halloween, maybe because the real terror is about to begin.  It's the night of 3 November, hunkered in my apartment, feeling that calm before the storm.  Outside the window, I can hear the crowd a block away in front of the local gay bar, Woody's...ahem,...

This article is very direct: Obama: l'Espoir d'un Retour à l'Amérique Tocquevillienne http://www.letemps.ch/template/opinions.asp?page=6&article=242668 Translation: Obama: The Hope of a Return to Tocquevillian America...

TOP 5 REASONS OBAMA SUPPORTERS SHOULDN'T REST EASY 1. The polls may be wrong. This is an unprecedented election. No one knows how racism may affect what voters tell pollsters—or what they do in the voting booth. And the polls are narrowing anyway...

Greetings, friends, September is always a favorite time of year, and not just because I'm beginning year 44 on Earth (and remember, a birthday is not an anticipation, but a victory over the past.)  The weather always crackles here in LA in September...summer literally broke in one night a few...

Greetings, friends, Today is 16 September, the 76th anniversary of Peg Entwistle's leap from the HOLLYWOOD sign. RIP Millicent Lillian Entwistle 5 February 1908 - 16 September 1932 May Hollywood (and Washington DC) go up in flames!

Greetings, friends, First of all, no Peg Entwistle party again this year, but if anyone is interested, we can see David Byrne do Brian Eno on 3 October at the Greek, and then go get drunk somewhere.  It will be cheaper for me and fun for all...

Greetings, friends, A friend of mine with a warped sense of humor turned me onto these blogs; these are the idiots who would rather put John McCain in the White House and destroy the world rather than say goodnight to their heroine, Hillary Clinton: The Confluence ...

Greetings, friends, Just in case you forgot, I want to remind you what this country is all about: In Congress, July 4, 1776 The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America WHEN IN the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands...