That Bootleg Guy

It appears that most – if not all – of my previously archived work from my three-year run as a weekly columnist and features writer on the I...

Comedian Larry Miller has a bit where he explains the difference between the way a man leers at a woman and how a woman ogles a man: "I...

M'man Sam writes: Did you see the video that Nas did with Nick Cannon? The shuck and jive one? It was pretty over the top and I thought...

TBG Reader Jag writes: I'm curious what your thoughts are on The Boondocks (if you've ever seen it). I'm Canadian so a lot of t...

We haven't gotten all racial 'round these parts in awhile. About a week ago, the San Diego Padres fired their General Manager Kevin ...

J.S. writes: One of the things I like to read about is your take on baseball and being a big Toronto Blue Jays fan from the Toronto area, I...

I seem to be experiencing a small – but, very much appreciated – uptick in new readers lately. To that end, I received a handful of emails f...

You will often hear or read Scottsdale [Arizona] referred to as "Snotsdale" or "Snobsdale", and Scottsdalians labeled sn...

Caught President Obama's speech tonight. Now, I know why never watch these things. The "spontaneous" partisan applause that ...

With the help of some grammatically inappropriate subterfuge, I'd like to come clean and say: I don't not like ESPN.com's Bill ...

Why, no, I'm not working today. How'd you guess? Obama the Great Orator fumbled the hell out of his swearing in recitation. [Yes, y...

Junk Mail RETURNS! Junk…Mail . You remember "Junk Mail", right? It was the ironically unoriginal name for the reader feedback sect...

I know that a link to fivethirtyeight.com is located just to the right of what you're reading right now, but in this post-election polit...

Who says racial epithets can't be comedy? Surely, you came across this early morning article on Al-Qaida's second-in-command dropp...

Do you remember how John McCain and Sarah Palin spent so much time railing against those of us who went to college, live near an ocean and p...

7:45 AM, Jalen's Preschool - One of the oddest aspects of living in ultra-conservative San Diego is that, politically, everyone seems t...

It's not hard to notice the irony. California – my home state – propelled Barack Obama over the finish line and into history, while simu...

My grandmother, Hazel Cameron, died on December 15, 2001. She was a bombastic old battle axe who proudly wore her Democratic political affil...

Proposition 6 – Places additional penalties on gang-related and drug crime. Takes monies from California General Fund (previously earmarked...

Those of us here in California have had to suffer through an especially annoying array of commercials this election season. And, like any g...