Just Making Conversation

This Cecil the Lion thing puzzles me.  Why is the PETA awe-rolling ardent animal support group going after an obscure dentist (a dentist fa Gawd's sake)? 

The guilty parties are clearly the natives who lured the poor sunuvabitch out of his habitat and into his doom.  And who advertised (presumably) in hunting magazines about the availability of a real lion to shoot?  Those are the guilty parties to me.

This mornings L.A. Times devoted an inordinate amount of space to the fact ((I guess) that our freeways don't match architectural styles!  What you're seeing out of your windows is a mishmash!  The horror!  You go from "natural" hill protection to manmade slide stoppers!  All in a space of perhaps 8 miles when you aren't focused on the traffic around you.  This is an outrage just not to be born!

For those aesthetes traveling such as the 405, for example, this is almost the trigger for a nervous breakdown.

There were strong hints that we need to start making our freeways more unified in their appearance.  This is almost as big a bad idea as the "bullet train to Nowhere" and goes far to explain why California in it's entirety has earned the reputation as "The Land of the Flakes and Nuts."

This would have never flitted across my radar screen had I not see it mentioned in the Daily News, UK --Woody Allen and Soon-Yi Previn have been together for the past 23 years.  The happy couple are now 79 and 44 respectively.  And Allen is quoted as saying, "I thought it was just a fling."