As I suspected, I do not have a BRCA gene mutation, more common in Ashkenazi Jews than the general population. That mutation predisposes the bearer to breast and ovarian cancer. The very very cheery and and rushed genetic counselor gave me the news Thursday....
Sunday, September 30, 2007
Saturday, September 29, 2007
Hairline
I look like Sluggo, Nancy's pal in the comic strip. My hairline is lower than my tattoo-line was, and I look like a Neandertal.* My tattoos are mostly faded. I want to get someone to rewrite the US out of Iraq on the back of my head. My scalp still shows...
Friday, September 28, 2007
Is $61 Million A Lot of Money?
In today's OC Register is an editorial, most appropriately called "Strangled in the Cradle."It essentially recounts the Newport Beach City Council's fear of the city's Unions and pulls heavily from the Daily Pilot's article.The following paragraph encapsulates...
Translation
It's always dangerous to make absolute statements (such as those that include "always"), but I will venture: Everyone loves secret code. That's what's so magical about speaking a foreign language.I went to a French-language gathering last week. It was...
Thursday, September 27, 2007
Be A Senator Tom Harman Intern!
Volunteering as an intern for an Assemblyman or State Senator is a GREAT way to get a look at the inner workings of our State Government. Many leaders in the Political movement today started out as interns for our Public Servants.While most of the "work"...
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Triple Crown Line - Newport Beach Edition
On Sunday, I guessed that the Newport Beach City Council would vote down Councilman Keith Curry's proposal to put City Employee Pension increases on the ballot 6-1. Boy, was I wrong. It never even got to a vote, with Councilman Curry pulling the item...
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
What is Mine
Marcel Marceau is mine. And that's not a typo. He is mine because his father, Karl Mangel, was born in a small town in Poland and was a kosher butcher in Strasbourg. I understand kosher butchers. I understand Yiddish-speaking Polish fathers, though mine...
Legislating by Lawsuit?
Wow, internet was down all day...Anyway, in today's Daily Pilot is this little tidbit about the Newport Beach Brewing Company and the potential threat of lawsuit.I know that it probably wasn't Alicia Robinson's intention to imply this, but she wrote,"Newport...
Monday, September 24, 2007
Welcome to David Bahnsen
We have a new Newport Beach voice. Please welcome the very brave David Bahnsen, who has chosen to not be anonymous and write using his own name. Because of that, I hope he's ok with me sharing some background on him.Like me, he has the privilege of...
Assemblyman DeVore E-Newsletter - September 22
This came to my work email on Saturday. I try not to check my work email on Saturdays, so I didn't get this until today. I know...old news...but it's still very interesting. On September 17, the Los Angeles Times ran an editorial entitled, “The...
Sunday, September 23, 2007
Republicans on the Council
The intent behind Rich Wagner's quote in today's Pilot was not to say, "we believe the Newport Beach council is all good Republicans, and we expect them to do what good Republicans do, so we will be shocked if this measure does not go through". The...
Tribune/Great Henna-head/Four Women, Four Breasts
Yesterday's Trib came in a plastic wrapper with a pocket that held three free food items geared toward women: two little boxes of Curves cereal and one Curves food bar. Thanks, Trib. Just what I wanted on Judaism's most solemn fast day. Fast, as in not...
Funniest Quote of the Year!
I don't think Lincoln Club President Richard Wagner meant to say what he said as a joke. But after cleaning off the coffee I spilled after my laptop after reading it, I realized that he was serious when he said:"...but I know that we in the club will...
Saturday, September 22, 2007
The Right Side
The weather was cool today, so it was Yom Kippur without that Bikram feeling. I had scheduled my arrival to services just about right: I got to the little-synagogue-that-isn't-there at about 1:30, with just two prayers to go before the break. Then there...
Friday, September 21, 2007
Bikram Kol Nidre
O man, was it hot in services tonight. We had an erev (eve) Yom Kippur dinner here and then R, P2 and I went to the little congregation that meets in a church. There were two ceiling fans and one rotating fan. I wanted to go stand by the rotating fan...
Another Voice?
I'm looking for one or two more Newport Beach-related contributors to this little blog. While my posts are extremely fascinating and probably very riveting, I do get tired of reading my own stuff sometimes. My friends Ron and Anna Winship do a great...
Upcoming Newport Beach-Centric GOP Events
Received the Republican Party of Orange County Calendar Events this morning and here are some interesting things coming up:Thursday, 9/27/0711:30 AMSpecial Event Newport Harbor Republican Women LuncheonWith Guest John Klein, Newport Beach Chief of...
Thursday, September 20, 2007
Greed is Good.
Not too long ago, former Newport Beach Mayor Tod Ridgeway told my friend, who was running for City Council, not to bother walking the Balboa Peninsula. Why? Tod said because no one there cares and the City Council thus ignores them. By evidenced...
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
To Cover or Not to Cover
The back of my head, as you can see here, says U.S. out of Iraq. Sometimes it is faint. Sometimes it looks like USOUT of IRAB but you get the message. Most people do when they look carefully, usually from above. My dentist noticed when it had faded completely,...
Bummer! Aspiring Nanny Senator Tom Harman Loses!
We were all holding our breath.But alas, after some major attempts to win the California Republican Assembly's Top Nanny contest, Newport's (actually Huntington Beach's) State Senator Tom Harman fell short in his endeavor losing out to San Diego's own...
MOORLACH UPDATE - OC Register - September 19, 2007
Below is Supervisor John Moorlach's explanation of their own pension increase, in response to the OC Register's article. While Supervisor Moorlach goes into detail what they do not receive, perhaps, and I'm sure someone will, someone should go into...
Its A Start
First off, what Newport Beach City Councilman Keith Curry is trying to do with having the voters vote on City Employee Pensions is a very good idea and will help the City save some money, even if 3.5% of the 11% RAISE the City Employees will get over...
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Do As I Say, Not As I Do.
This is the perfect example of that old saying (which every parent is very guilty of saying on a constant basis), "Do as I say and not as I do."From the OCRegister.com's Total Buzz is this little tidbit about the County Supervisors voting to...get ready...
Volunteer Government?
The whole case for a new City Hall in Newport Beach andthose against it on dedicated Park Land and those for anyalternative location other than its present location cameunder fire yesterday! Phil Arst....the famous "Founderof Green Light" has come up...
If You Build It, City Employees Will Fill It.
From today's Daily Pilot is the most basic, most simple statement of common sense as to why Newport Beach doesn't need a new White Elephant:"Greenlight Residents’ Group leader Phil Arst is now suggesting — as he did several years ago — that a new city...
Monday, September 17, 2007
Homage to Our Podiatrist
Our podiatrist is avuncular. He is nice-looking with short white hair that sticks up. He has a Hungarian vizsla who is ageing (who does not come to the office). His staff unties your shoes and takes off your socks, and when the appointment is over, puts...
Newport Beach City Manager Home Bludau - the Reactionary
So the battle to increase the size of John Wayne Airport has been very subtle. A couple of words here and there by the Newport City Council, County Supervisor Moorlach got involved a bit, and the record passenger loads getting broken, every month.Now,...
Sunday, September 16, 2007
Sadness, the Empty Room
We (I) spend time talking to B and S, telling them what they should do, in light of B's MS getting worse, in light of his falls from his chair, and my nattering and nagging fill the air, fill the space, takes the place of emotion. But when S talked about...
Saturday, September 15, 2007
Here Comes the Fuzz
The thing is, we confuse recovery from chemo with recovery from cancer. Cancer doesn't always make you feel bad. As my friend R says, You're feeling great, then you find out you have cancer, and the treatment makes you feel lousy. So as my hair slowly...
Friday, September 14, 2007
Follow Pasadena's Path?
In this Daily Pilot article, Newport Beach resident Bob Rush mentions, "that because Clauson (City Attorney) didn’t point out a group home rule from Pasadena that might help Newport, her legal opinion “should be critically questioned as to accuracy and...
Sins
I threw my sins into the lake yesterday. It's a Rosh Hashanah custom. Usually we throw bread crumbs as a stand-in, but there's talk that the crumbs could upset the ecosystem. So I threw a very few crumbs and some sand and some rocks. Seagulls found us...
Big Spenders of Citizen's Money - Newport Beach Edition
Where do I start?In today's Pilot is this little article about how "After spending “hundreds and hundreds” of hours on new regulations for group homes, the Newport Beach city attorney’s office is off the case, and a new outside legal firm will be hired."...
Thursday, September 13, 2007
Rehab Home Battle Brewing?
I know many people who have been fighting the proliferation of Rehab Homes into their streets for a few years now. But they have been largely spinning their wheels, for a variety of reasons.I'm lucky. There are only four in my neighborhood, almost...
John Wayne Airport Just Keeps Breaking Those Records!
Just like the Mortgage Loan fallout breaking records every month in the amount of foreclosures/defaults, John Wayne Airport does not want to fall behind breaking records. Taken from the OCBlog.net, and Len Kraser, our neighborhood airport just keeps...
Becoming a Better Person
Tis the season. Perhaps Rosh Hashanah is based on a Babylonian holiday, writes Arthur Waskow in Seasons of Our Joy. Every year after harvest, he writes, "was an occasion for pledging renewed obedience to the Babylonian throne." So the Jews got the idea...
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