Ask a Hipster — Advice you didn't know you needed
Big Screen — Movie commentary
Blurt — Music's inside track
Booze News — San Diego spirits
Classical Music — Immortal beauty
Classifieds — Free and easy
Close to Home — What it’s like on the street where you live
Cover Stories — Front-page features
Drinks All Around — Bartenders' drink recipes
Excerpts — Literary and spiritual excerpts
Feast! — Food & drink reviews
Feature Stories — Local news & stories
Fishing Report — What’s getting hooked from ship and shore
From the Archives — Spotlight on the past
Golden Dreams — Talk of the town
The Gonzo Report — Making the musical scene, or at least reporting from it
Letters — Our inbox
Movies@Home — Local movie buffs share favorites
Movie Reviews — Our critics' picks and pans
Musician Interviews — Up close with local artists
Neighborhood News from Stringers — Hyperlocal news
News Ticker — News & politics
Obermeyer — San Diego politics illustrated
Outdoors — Weekly changes in flora and fauna
Overheard in San Diego — Eavesdropping illustrated
Poetry — The old and the new
Reader Travel — Travel section built by travelers
Reading — The hunt for intellectuals
Roam-O-Rama — SoCal's best hiking/biking trails
San Diego Beer — Inside San Diego suds
SD on the QT — Almost factual news
Sheep and Goats — Places of worship
Special Issues — The best of
Street Style — San Diego streets have style
Surf Diego — Real stories from those braving the waves
Theater — On stage in San Diego this week
Tin Fork — Silver spoon alternative
Under the Radar — Matt Potter's undercover work
Unforgettable — Long-ago San Diego
Unreal Estate — San Diego's priciest pads
Your Week — Daily event picks
Bribes for the bankers
Don, the institution I have highest respect for are the military who risk their lives and bodies to protect American Democracy, but the rest of us are failing to protect American Democracy even though you keep reporting increasingly unacceptable consequences daily. We keep enabling Greed and Corruption as the paramount motto for our political system, and this is destroying our democracy just like it did at the beginning in Ancient Athens.— September 30, 2014 1:12 p.m.
Bribes for the bankers
Don, I have been reading your blog for so long that I now believe that there is no institution in America that is not greedy and corrupt.— September 30, 2014 7:28 a.m.
Victory! San Onofre settlement deemed unfair
Don, as you say "The public isn't listening yet." God help us if we don't find a way to inform and motivate the public, in San Diego and around the world, to save the future for our grandchildren soon. I still refuse to accept that the human race hasn't evolved enough to save itself. But our religions, universities, governments and oligarchs keep proving that they are total failures when it comes to overcoming destructive greed. Most unfortunately, the facts of life keep proving that it is far easier for us to create ways to destroy ourselves than to produce ways to cooperate enough to save ourselves.— September 7, 2014 9:46 a.m.
Victory! San Onofre settlement deemed unfair
Don, as long as we watch and do nothing while politicians are owned by the Koch Bros. who are overthrowing American Democracy, allow bankers to steal homes from people working as hard as they can to achieve the American Dream, allow utility executives to kill customers and commit acts of gross criminal negligence against public safety so they can maximize their profits, don't be surprised when our way of life crashes and burns and we no longer have any water to put the fires out.— September 6, 2014 12:21 p.m.
Victory! San Onofre settlement deemed unfair
Don, one political fact of life that is overlooked by the media is that PG&E, SCE and CPUC executives should be put on trial for gas pipeline deaths and nuclear radiation threats. These worst case scenarios keep proving that our political system is a threat to public safety.— September 6, 2014 4:13 a.m.
How dry is it?
Don, Bloomberg wanted to fight global warming after Hurricane Sandy hit NYC but, like Gore, seems to have lost his momentum when No One Really Seems to Care enough to fight against the oil money power of Koch Bros. We desperately need leaders with the integrity to protect long-term quality of life, but even democrats will sell out their integrity to get re-elected. Sadly, democrats will also stab each other, and their own president in the back like Feinstein just did, it must be remembered that she climbed on the Bush-Cheney-Iraq bandwagon in 2002. There seems to be no solution to global warming as long as there are no communicators who can inform and motivate people to fight back in spite of our political parties. Bloomberg could do this with his BusinessWeek magazine, but it remains to be seen what his objectives are today. Hell, it still seems that far too many San Diegans refuse to give up their lawns for the sake to saving water to drink so why should politicians care?— September 4, 2014 3:29 p.m.
How dry is it?
Don, that's why I keep nominating you and Michael Bloomberg to "produce a much better way to inform and motivate people to take actions on increasingly out of control threats" because you already are two of the best communicators in the world.— September 4, 2014 11:42 a.m.
How dry is it?
ImJustABill and Don, posts and comments like yours prove daily that we must produce a much better way to inform and motivate people to take actions on increasingly out of control threats against an acceptable long-term quality of life for our newest generations. Politicians, intellectuals and institutional leaders, in America and around the world, have failed to meet the challenges of change we are experiencing today and we must find a better way now.— September 4, 2014 4:54 a.m.
Who made these errors?
Don, I said "they are all corrupt and/or incompetent". They are ALL at least incompetent or we wouldn't have created all of the out of control threats to the long-term future that we are passing on as our legacy to the newest and all future generations. Our legacy is totally unacceptable and no one has an implementable solution. Indeed, "This is the propitious time to demand reform of" every establishment in the world.— August 3, 2014 5:24 a.m.
Who made these errors?
Don, the fact is, as we keep discussing, you cannot trust leaders of any institution, they are all corrupt and/or incompetent and that is why we keep talking about more and more threats to civilization that are out of control. The CPUC, utilities, local, state and federal politicians, university academics, corporations, religions, etc. are all failing to protect the long-term future for our newest generations. All we can do is keep reporting and complaining about it, and things just keep getting worse because we have no leaders who are dedicated and capable of making the right things happen. Before I retired and started reading your columns I assumed, naively, that almost everyone above me was working as hard as they could to improve quality of life. Since I started reading your column I have come to believe that the leaders of all institutions are guilty of gross criminal negligence and corruption that causes things like gas line deaths, nuclear power threats, and all the other things you document. No one has an implementable solution to our inequality and environmental problems that are destroying the future.— August 2, 2014 11:47 a.m.