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Why the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement Sucks

PERSPECTIVE-The Paris Climate Agreement of 2015 was a big deal as 195 nations agreed to take steps to mitigate global temperatures to +2°C, but preferably +1.5°C, post-industrial or over the past 250 years. When temperatures exceed those levels, all hell breaks loose with our precious life-support ecosystems. 

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Who’s to Blame in a Nation (and a City) Where Lying Is Ubiquitous?

ONE MAN’S OPINION-Shall we blame the Liar in Chief whose regard for the truth is less than the null set? Shall we blame former Donald Trump attorney Michael Cohen, who testified before the U.S. Congress on February 27, 2019 that every day when he and other Trump employees came to work, they knew they would be lying to advance Donald Trump’s interest? 

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When We’re Dancing with the Angels

WORDS COUNT-The day-long testimony of Michael Cohen - "a loser with nothing to lose" who knows where the bodies are buried, and thus Trump's worst nightmare - gave us the sordid if cleansing spectacle of "a liar, lout, thug, bully, scumbag, and admitted criminal (testifying) about his former client and our liar, lout, thug, bully, scumbag and criminal in chief."

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If the Venice Blvd Road Diet Is So Damned Great, Why Is It Being Rammed Through In Secret?

ALPERN AT LARGE--As someone who both co-sponsored the motion of a six-month, transparent, input-oriented Venice Blvd. road diet about two years ago, and who played a key advisory role to enabling the late and brash-talking Bill Rosendahl come out of nowhere to become CD11 Councilmember, I'm pretty sure Bill would have the following to say about the Venice Blvd. Road Diet suddenly on the LA Transportation Committee agenda:  

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