Laughing Matters

by Jack Neworth (with help from Charles Dickens) Decades ago, Jacob Marley and Donald Trump were business partners. Marley died...

Chapter I: Getting to Know You I vividly remember the first time I saw Oscar de la Rascal, a Golden...

Campaigning in 2016, Donald Trump claimed the world was laughing at the U.S. Given his absurd comments about our California...

It's wrong to kick someone when they're down. In Donald Trump's case, however, I'm willing to make an exception. This...

Women must have enormous patience. I say this because 18 months from now will mark the 100th anniversary of the...

Even in progressive Santa Monica, these are not great times for journalists. However, I'd like to share two hopefully amusing...

In the fall, as kids in grade school, we'd often be asked to write an essay, “What I did over...

At the risk of sounding like Rodney (“I get no respect”) Dangerfield, I confess that, in reaching out to interview...

By tomorrow or early next week, Brett Kavanaugh will likely be Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh. Yikes! (In a 1983 letter...

In January, 2017, Donald Trump reportedly instructed his administration to treat each day as if it were a reality show....