The Los Angeles Times reports how the Los Angeles Unified School District is grappling with the immense violence and crime at the new South LA High as students bring the problems that exist outside the school on to campus. The new LAPD online crime map that allows one to see reported crimes in any area […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)Another reason to like Web 2.0. How else would one find a pack of creepy monkey children get killed off one-by-one in various bicycle safety mistakes:
Certainly one of the strangest safety videos ever made.
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“The cubicle was not born evil”
- Fortune’s Julie Schlosser, in Cubicles: The Great Mistake, in which we learn that the cube was originally intended to improve the work lives of office workers stuck in open bullpens.
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H/t: Good Morning Silicon Valley
We at Independent Sources are unnerved by the sexist coverage of women’s tennis by the media. These are athletes and should be treated as such and not as some eye candy for cheap thrill seeking voyeurs. That said, check out this most outstanding shot of Martina Hingis as she does some kind of tennis thing:
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(click on post title, or here, for the rest)Killer Islamic kites have murdered seven innocent bystanders in Pakistan’s Punjab Province buy cutting their throats. Some of the kites’ victims were young children. These murderous Islamic kites appear to have no moral compass and pick their victims at random. They typically strike during the day, especially when it is windy.
Rana Ejaz Ahmad Khan, the […]
How remorseful is LA school board candidate Christopher Arellano about the untruths and misrepresentations made during his campaign? Not much judging by his official web site (Christopherarellano.org) which still contains the very falsehoods that have embroiled his campaign.
As of today, March 9th, Independent Sources found that Arellano’s website still claims that Arellano earned two […]
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Yes, that’s how a visitor found Independent Sources today. We’re the #9 result because we wrote about Arianna Huffington and nude Australian models on the same day.
Bon voyage, odd person — we wish you well on your quest.
On Monday, when Senator Barbara Boxer asked Daily Kos readers to sign a petition to Donald Rumsfeld, her thread was immediately hijacked by commenters who showed the impeccable logic and sense of reality for which Kos readers are justly reknowned. A sampling:
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“It must be awful being in Congress on the wrong side of a […]
Being Los Angeles locals and part of an ever more select group of people who still subscribe to the Los Angeles Times, Independent Sources has been grated by the sad state of the LAT Business Section. California’s economy is greater than most countries, yet the paper seems to have had a difficult time finding […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)A Field Poll released today shows that Senator Barbara Boxer’s approval rating has fallen to a nine year low of 41%. That nadir is driven by a 13% drop in approval by Democrats over the past year, accompanied by a 5% drop among non-partisan respondents.
As of this writing (10pm Tuesday), only the Sacramento Bee has […]
I almost never open letters involving class action lawsuits since in the end they never seem to be worth the effort. More often than not, the plaintiff lawyers get a nice stack of cash, the defendant gets off with a slap on the wrist–often by dumping worthless certificates on the settlement class or by donating […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)In the Huffington Post, Tom Hayden rationally counters arguments that the race-is-everything viewpoint of the film Crash is flawed:
The Times’ news coverage highlighted critical comments about Crash by Joe Hicks, a local African-American who has become something of a David Horowitz in blackface, a former black communist who has degenerated into a virtual neo-conservative propagandist.
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Just as we posted the last update to the unfolding crisis of Christopher Arellano (”Update on the the guy we called a bonehead“), we saw that the LA Times was reporting that Eric Bauman, chairman of the county’s Democratic Central Committee had withdrawn its support for Arellano.
Bauman noted that he had asked Arellano if […]
Today was a stellar day for an epic ride and one of the best cycling places in the LA area is Simi Valley. This shot is of the Ronald Reagan Library which was about the 1/2-point of the ride.
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(click on post title, or here, for the rest)We regret calling Christopher Arellano a bonehead. We did it because he flatly refused to even attempt to participate in a good natured pop quiz given by the LA Times consisting of a single basic match question. For a guy who claims to have multiple college degrees the question should have been quite easy. And […]
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