Tag Archives: California
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Insert Foot: Just when we thought speech was free, California has to decriminalize rap lyrics
L to R: California Gov. Gavin Newsom, Ice-T, Insert Foot, Tipper Gore and Snoop Dogg. California Gov. Gavin Newsom just signed a flurry of bills into laws, including one that seemingly flew under the radar because so many didn’t know it was necessary. Rendering: Adam Pardee/STAFF. It’s called the…
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Insert Foot: Water-shaming will allow for some fun while we die of thirst
Insert Foot had a weird dream about the drought. I finally saw my first social media water-shaming video last week. It was glorious. I watched a man turning on his sprinklers in early afternoon here in Northern California. Which, lately, has felt a lot like early afternoon on Tatooine.…
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Insert Foot: We’re Californians, we’re stupid and we’re doomed
Insert Foot vs. the drought. I saw a story last week saying, as California goes into year three of its historic drought (journalists are no longer allowed to just say “drought”) we idiotically used 18.9 percent more water in March 2022 than the previous March. How is that even…
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Insert Foot: Is there a law about computer daters holding giant wine glasses?
Insert Foot vs. giant wine glasses in dating profiles. I’ve been doing the computer dating thing since it seemed safe to come out of the corner of my bedroom where I’ve been dressed like an astronaut and hiding since 2020. You get to an age (actually, your liver gets…
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Insert Foot: Dodging escaped murder-cows
Insert Foot vs. cows. MARTINEZ, Calif. — My 13-year-old daughter and I were driving along a dark suburban road on a warm spring Thursday night, having a pleasant conversation about how humans feel anxious sometimes, and what people do to remedy that anxiousness. We were doing the speed limit.…
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Insert Foot: Lifting buildings and outlawing skiing: bad ideas to avoid
Insert Foot vs. climate change. During one unfortunate 10-minute period early as I drove to the gym this week–mistakenly believing there was a still a future for which to get in shape–I heard two stories on news radio that made me want to turn around, drive back home, climb…
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Album Review: Ab-Soul balances his love and his addiction with ‘Do What Thou Wilt’
Wordplay, vulnerably, honest lyrics and aggressive bass lines lace Ab-Soul’s Do What Thou Wilt, creating a record that offers activism and personal reflection. As a member of the Los Angeles supergroup Black Hippy; which features other Top Dawg Entertainment artists like Jay Rock, Kendrick Lamar and Schoolboy Q. Ab-Soul has carved…
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Where do we go after this election?
It’s hard to write this because I am in pain. Not a physical agony, though it certainly feels that way, but instead a mental anguish of what happened during Tuesday night’s Presidential election. Regardless of what side you reside on it is easy to recognize that there are numerous…
