LOS ANGELES

SAME WAY JESUS WOULD HAVE HANDLED IT--White conservative America sure had a lot to say about Rev. Jeremiah Wright—and by extension, the Black church—and his “God damn America” sermon

DEAR JUSTICE THOMAS: You are in your thirtieth year on the Court. You are now its longest serving member.

THE DOCTOR IS IN--I just got my second Moderna vaccination shot yesterday (2/6/2020), and frankly I couldn't wait to get it fast enough.

CALBUZZ-A few months ago, when the Coronavirus pandemic was just getting real, a majority of Californians thought Gov. Gavin Newsom was doing a good job of managing the crisis. 

MY TURN--On Monday, February 1, 2021, Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell on Monday rebuked Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, calling the Georgia Republican as a "cancer" for the GOP party.

THE BLACK VOTE-The point at which California Gov. Gavin Newsom and the Democratic Party should really be worried about the recall is if Black women decide to send a reminder to them both that they still need us.  

AT LENGTH--The California GOP, after having no majority in the state legislature and none of the statewide offices for the last decade on top of the embarrassing defeat of their dear fascist leader for president, they return to a very old ploy — blame everything on the Democrats. 

PLANNING WATCH-In California Democrats hold a super majority in the State Legislature and LA’s City Hall.

GELFAND’S WORLD--The Republicans are complaining that the new administration and its Democratic allies in the Senate are not really for unity, in spite of what Biden said in his inaugural speech.

EASTSIDER-This is mostly tongue in cheek. Mostly.

GUEST WORDS--Because God knows theres's still plentiful weirdness lurking in the conspirational water,

THE DOCTOR IS IN--I've got a few e-mails (and I truly COMMEND those who've sent them!) asking me what I would do, or what Governor Gavin Newsom should have done, differently during this pandemic which will result in health and economic devastation well in 2021, and likely into 2022.

MY TURN-Reading tea leaves if a difficult job, especially if they may be mixed with coffee grounds.  After all, who really knows what’s going on in Washington DC? 

NON-VIOLENT DISSENT-The right to peaceful assembly is enshrined in the Bill of Rights because it is critically important. Indeed, research has shown that peaceful protests and nonviolent tactics are the most effective tools in making social change, even including overthrowing dictators. 

CONNECTING CALIFORNIA-It was tricky to get out of the house while the state was under the latest stay-at-home order, much less to find public places that offered both ample social distance and community.

LA GOVERNMENT … SHORT ON TRANSPARENCY--According to the Congressional Research Service, as we’ve noted before, the U.S. House of Representatives has met behind closed doors four times during the past 190 years—in 1979, 1980, 1983, and 2008.

GELFAND’S WORLD--So now there is going to be a designated protest zone at Dodger Stadium so that the anti-vaccine people and Covid-19 deniers can get together and try to convince others not to get a shot.

PERSPECTIVE-Every week, millions of us walk into a Walgreens drugstore without giving it a second thought. 

@THE GUSS REPORT-Like a broken clock that is right twice a day, even LA's corrupt and inept governments get things right from time to time. 

CLIMATE POLITICS-The rapid rise of Covid-19 has spawned a renaissance in socio-economic thinking about the best way to face the future, as mayors of cities throughout the world search for answers in the face of declining revenues while society demands more urgent help. 

THE DOCTOR IS IN--Before I start on any update on the several vaccines we have, and those we will have, I want to make something clear: