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Petraeus.jpgFor years, Albertson’s Supermarket in Canyon Country has posted the photographs of local people serving in or around foreign wars.  I was just about to write “young people serving.” But some of the photos are of soldiers who have served for years, and they are not so young now as they were when Albertson’s first discovered them. (more…)

CincoDeMayo.jpgI have good news and bad news about the celebration of Cinco de Mayo in Santa Clarita this May 5.  The bad news is that once again there will be no celebration here that anyone knows about. (more…)

chrisphotograph.jpgIn the classic old comedy “Woman of The Year,” the very athletic Katherine Hepburn has to explain she has no time for Spencer Tracy one afternoon because she devoted that date to her Physical Ed.

“Who,” grumped Tracy, “is Physical Ed?”

The same question might be asked about “Special Ed.”  All that most people know about “Special Ed” is that he is a very expensive guy. In California, billions of dollars go into “Special Ed” each year. (more…)

clip_image002.gif   They equal in numbers about fifteen military divisions, or sixty regiments – at least 300,000 American military veterans now spend every year alternating between homelessness and temporary shelter, according to a report issued by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs this past March. (more…)

soccer.JPG   In Babe Ruth’s final public appearance in 1948 – with Ruth ravaged to the bone by cancer, pushing words through a body that no longer wanted to hang around or do anything – the great Sultan of Swat turned into a kind of Nostradamus for a sold-out cheering crowd in Yankee Stadium.  Baseball is a great game, he told the crowd in a quivering voice, through amplifiers filling the stadium, BUT only as long as we remember that baseball must serve America’s children first. (more…)

chrisphotograph.jpg   Tom Brokaw – one of America’s greatest journalists and author of the brilliant “The Greatest Generation” – has just recently come out with another powerful chronicle titled “Boom,” about the hyper-dramatic year 1968 in America. Brokaw was old enough to have experienced 1968 as a mature adult and to tell its story.  It should be remembered, though, (more…)

clip_image002.jpg   It may be hard to believe, but there are actually many Easter pictures that can compete well with the nativity scenes of Christmas and the Easter bunny.  I have included in this article clip art that shows the crosses for Jesus and two thieves beside him.  I have never found much comfort in crosses.  As a Christian in training, I prefer to see Jesus alive and teaching than seeing him dead (more…)

chrisphotograph.jpg   Some years ago I was briefly living in Florence, Italy.  Every other week there seemed to be another saint’s holiday. There was even a special devotion for a man named Humphrey, a Benedictine of the 9th Century who I was told had let himself go so badly while he was incessantly reading Holy Scripture that a knight – mistaking him for a dragon — martyred him. Clearly, if you like to (more…)

chrisphotograph.jpg   education.BMP  A while ago I was standing around at a high school principal’s office when I heard something that sounded like public torture from the Dark Ages.  A vice principal was verbally hammering away at a student, who was hunched in a chair the way a boxer squats on the ropes while being knocked senseless. “You haven’t shown me squat.” The tough vice principal’s words were floating like a butterfly and stinging like a bee. The door was wide open so that the scene might be shared by anyone who liked watching such shows. (more…)

chrisphotograph.jpg   Sad as it may sound for my fellow independent friends, the GOP wants nothing to do with us during this critical California primary season.  Oh, a new law has allowed us to vote for primary candidates among the Democrats and the American Independent Party.  But California Republicans want nothing but GOP purebreds selecting the Republican winner of the February 5 California Primary. (more…)

chrisphotograph.jpg    Today I decided I will take only one hour to write this essay, as it touches on philosophical contention — a dangerous territory for a public writer in any age.  I figure if I write this piece really quickly, I won’t get bogged down in writing pre-emptive defenses against anyone who has a right to disagree (more…)

homelesschild.jpg   homeless.JPG   My piece today has its origins in a Metrolink Riverside County train ride I took last year.  Like the proverbial “Strangers on a Train,” the passengers around me had bonded around a subject of common interest, the sport of skydiving in Southern California. (more…)

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