Laughing Matters

At the height of Watergate, as young reporters Bob Woodard and Carl Bernstein were closing in on President Nixon, their...

November 1, 2017, seemed like just a typical day for hard-working, local handyman Russell Braunstein. A Santa Monica resident for...

Last week I purchased a new (used) bike. Realizing this isn't exactly “breaking news,” I nonetheless hope what happened to...

America is mourning the passing and celebrating the life of Senator John McCain. In 1967, POW McCain heroically rejected the...

Abraham Lincoln once said, “You can please some of the people some of the time, some of the people all...

When former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson faced rape charges in 1992, his lawyer's closing argument to the jury was...

At the end of last week's column, I was describing myself (circa more decades ago than I care to admit)...

Currently, there are eighteen brush and forest fires raging in California. By far the worst is the Carr fire in...

Ten days ago, following the ill-fated Helsinki press conference with Vladimir Putin, both political parties condemned President Trump's remarks as...

It's my birthday Sunday but it's also Albert  Einstein's. (Not the physicist, the comedian, Albert Brooks, whose birth name is...