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LA Meatless Mondays Steak Dinner Tomorrow January 27

January 26, 2014 by B. Daniel Blatt

Just a reminder about our next Meatless Mondays Steak Dinner, tomorrow January 27.

E-mail me for details and to RSVP

Filed Under: LA Stories Tagged With: LA Stories, Meatless Monday Steak Dinners, Meatless Mondays

Meatless Monday LA Steak Dinner, January 27

January 22, 2014 by B. Daniel Blatt

Okay, okay, I know it’s been about two months since last I blogged and about the same amount of time since I checked this web-site.  I have been quite busy with my book, having met, in 2013, all the deadlines I set for myself, including finishing the first draft of my book by the end of the year.  I am now editing the second part of that first book of my epic.

Did want to invite our readers who will in LA next week to attend our next Meatless Mondays Steak Dinner on January 27.  Drop me a note for details and to RSVP.

Filed Under: LA Stories Tagged With: LA Stories, Meatless Mondays

Meatless Mondays Steak Dinner Tomorrow July 29 in LA

July 28, 2013 by B. Daniel Blatt

You still have time to RSVP for our Meatless Mondays Steak Dinner tomorrow, Monday July 29 in Los Angeles.

As you may know, we’ll be honoring the Los Angeles City Council’s unanimous vote last November on a resolution “endorsing the ‘meatless Monday’ campaign and asking residents to make a personal pledge to ditch meat for one day a week.”

Drop me a note to RSVP.

Filed Under: LA Stories, Liberalism Run Amok

Meatless Monday Steak Dinner July 29, 2013 in LA

July 23, 2013 by B. Daniel Blatt

In honor of the Los Angeles City Council unanimous approval last November of a resolution “endorsing the ‘meatless Monday’ campaign and asking residents to make a personal pledge to ditch meat for one day a week”, we will be organizing another Meatless Monday Steak Dinner this coming Monday, July 29.

If you’d liked to attend, please RSVP for details.

Filed Under: LA Stories, Liberalism Run Amok

LA Billboard Against Minimum Wage

May 31, 2013 by B. Daniel Blatt

The things you see when driving down Pico:
BIeber Minimum Wage

Filed Under: Economy, LA Stories, Obama Hopenchange

Who originated the anti-Koch Brothers Hysteria?

May 31, 2013 by B. Daniel Blatt

Last night on Powerline, caught this video of Angelenos protesting against the possibility of the Koch brothers’ purchasing the Los Angeles Times:

And it got me wondering (and not for the first time) about the origins of the anti-Koch hysteria. Wonder if a Mr. D. Axelrod might have been behind this. I mean the guy did think it significant that a former Massachusetts governor once transported the family dog on the roof of his car.

RELATED: Protesters explain: Kochs must not buy LA Times because … tolerance

Filed Under: Hysteria on the Left, KIDS (Koch Industries Derangement Syndrome), LA Stories, Random Thoughts Tagged With: Koch Industries

On men who don’t look like their pictures (on online dating sites)

May 15, 2013 by B. Daniel Blatt

Last night, I had a pleasant dinner, spontaneously arranged, with one of my closest friends in LA.  He and I had met about six years via an online dating service.  We didn’t feel much romantic chemistry, but did enjoy each other’s company and became friends.

as we occasionally do, we shared our stories about online dating, he kvetching about a man who didn’t call when he promised, but who subsequently kept pestering him with texts, I sharing stories about a number of decent dates I had with guys whose profiles presented a pretty accurate portrait of their personality, profession and passions.

And then we fell to talking about guys who misrepresented themselves on line, with both of us recalling dates with men who just didn’t look like their pictures.  I related a tale about a guy I met depicted as thin in his online pictures, but who in person, suffered from a severe shall we say, a severe absence of thin.  (After our coffee date, I went back home and checked his profile and ascertained that that was clearly the guy depicted online, but the pictures were at least ten years old.)

And we wondered last night, my friend and I, we wondered what these men thought when they posted these pictures, that their scintillating personalities would make up for the difference in appearance?  Didn’t it occur to them that men who responded to the ad would be attracted to that picture and expect to meet someone who looked like the guy in the picture? Or did they believe that the picture merely served to draw the potential date to the profile and that the qualities delineated therein constituted the real nature of said date’s interest?

Or did they believe their own propaganda, that they actually looked today like they did ten years ago, despite the fact that ten years ago, they exercised regularly whereas today they’re making plans to exercise next week? [Read more…]

Filed Under: Dating, Friendship, LA Stories, Random Thoughts Tagged With: Dating, LA Stories

LA Meatless Mondays Steak Dinner 02/25 with Dan & Bruce

February 13, 2013 by B. Daniel Blatt

Our next Meatless Monday steak dinner will take place on Monday, February 25 in the Los Angeles area and will include both Bruce and myself, together for the first time since 2010.

Drop me a note for details and to RSVP.

Filed Under: LA Stories, Travel

Our Agenda-Driven Press Corps

February 9, 2013 by Kurt

In his post yesterday about the Los Angeles shooter, Jeff pointed out the noteworthy lamestream media silence on certain key elements of the shooter’s manifesto.  Indeed, as Noah Rothman notes today at Mediaite: When crazed shooters can’t be linked to the Tea Party, the media displays admirable restraint.  The story of the shooter in Los Angeles, in fact, is–like several other recent shooters–only of interest to the press corps to the extent that it helps feed the narrative about “gun violence” and the need for more gun-control.  Elements of the story that don’t fit with the narrative are omitted, and especially those elements that contradict the narrative or help to fuel competing narratives.  Because the Los Angeles shooter’s manifesto complains about perceived “racism,” this could theoretically turn into a story about how the racial grievance industry has created a monster, but of course it never will because that is not an agenda the media has any interest in promoting.

Most of the times these days it seems that the press corps is pushing several different agenda items at one time, and news stories are only of interest or worth covering to the extent that they help advance one of those agenda items.  Rather than report the facts and let things fall where they may, the press tries to shoehorn as many stories as possible into the service of one agenda item or another.   The other day, for instance, I woke up to this story on NPR explaining that:  “The gun violence that scars some Chicago neighborhoods has been a plague for one woman. Shirley Chambers first lost a child to gunfire in the mid 1990s. In 2000, a daughter and a son were shot to death just months apart. On Monday, Chambers buried her last child.”  The story could have focused on the horrible failure of gun-control in Chicago, it could have talked about the problems with gangs in the city or crime related to drugs, it could have talked about the plight of inner-city blacks caught up in a dysfunctional culture, but it didn’t do anything like that.  No, the story had to be forced to fit the current narrative about the evils of “gun violence.”

But it’s not just “gun violence.”  As I write, a huge winter storm is bearing down on the Northeast.  When I spent a few years in New England in the 1980s, this sort of thing was to be expected and was known simply as “winter.”  These days, every storm of any magnitude is a big story, people are encouraged to panic and to scurry about, and inevitably, the articles begin to appear linking the storm to “climate change.”

Other common themes of note these days include the repeated focus on “bullying” as a way of pushing “anti-bullying programs” and “anti-bullying” legislation.  Hence, this horrible story is of interest to the media because it is seen as a way of advancing the “anti-bullying” agenda.  In years past, it may have been reported simply as a brutal fight in a school yard, but not any more.   I’m curious to know more about the attacker, but the story doesn’t tell us, nor does the journalist who wrote the story have any interest in reporting what the actual issues in this case are, because doing so would only undermine the “anti-bullying” agenda.  Even NFL cheerleaders are of interest largely to the extent that they can help advance the cause.

And of course, gay issues are another big agenda item for the press corps, but only insofar as gays and lesbians can be portrayed as either victims (of hate or discrimination or abuse) or as inspiring and selfless humanitarians.  Hence, this story about a supposedly “gay” dog in Tennessee was picked up by the national press because it helped advance the narrative that people in “red states” are stupid bigots who hate gays;  in truth, it is really a story about how there are people in all states who shouldn’t own dogs either because they are irresponsible and self-centered or because they have no knowledge or understanding of normal canine behavior.  Had the dog been euthanized after having been abandoned by a gangster or a meth addict in the inner city, you can be certain it wouldn’t have made the news.

Filed Under: Big Journalism, Climate Change (Global Warming), Dogs, Gays / Homosexuality (general), Ideas & Trends, LA Stories, Media Bias, Tea Party

Why doesn’t City of LA attend to its uneven sidewalks?

February 7, 2013 by B. Daniel Blatt

Just cause this on Instapundit:

REASON TV: LA’s New Crack Epidemic: Sidewalks. Have you noticed that the more time and energy cities put into things like banning big sodas or plastic grocery bags, the worse jobs they do at things that used to be considered basic functions of government?

They should have interviewed me.  In late November when it dark, walking from my gym to my car, parked on an adjacent side street — in the City of Los Angeles, I didn’t see a spot where a tree roots had pushed one square of the sidewalk up so that it was no longer level with the square next to it.

I tripped on the higher square and fell.  For a few days afterward, whenever I turned in a certain way, I felt a severe pain on the side where I had fallen.  The pain eased up after a week.

A friendly guy from the gym who had seen me fall — and rushed over to assist me — said he had seen such uneven sidewalks all over the city.

Should I have sued the city had I broken a rib?

Filed Under: LA Stories

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