Month: December 2010

OB RAG 2010 : “Best Of …”

 Frank Gormlie  December 31, 2010  11 Comments on OB RAG 2010 : “Best Of …”

Here’s our “Best Of…” posts from 2010, month by month. Over this past year, we’ve published 953 articles on this here website. We’ve tried to include some of the best of each of our writers’ and we’ve done it on a month to month basis for the entire year. The selections below were based on subject matter, comments, and popularity, or just because they were “so OB!” We’re certain we missed some of the good posts – but there were so many!

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Remembering Remarkable Experiences in a Lighthearted Mood

 Ernie McCray  December 30, 2010  16 Comments on Remembering Remarkable Experiences in a Lighthearted Mood

I hadn’t written anything for a while and decided, in a spirit of fun, to check into “www.creativewritingprompts.com” and craft…

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Tie One On – Only in OB

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By Jim Grant As I drove down Sunset Cliffs yesterday afternoon in the light rain with a squall line approaching…

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Anti-Abortion Regulations Increasing for Women Nationwide

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By Lauren Kelley /AlterNet / December 28, 2010 The 2007 Supreme Court decision that upheld a federal ban on late-term…

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Ocean Beach is site of liberal vs conservative split among Episcopalians

 Source  December 29, 2010  8 Comments on Ocean Beach is site of liberal vs conservative split among Episcopalians

Conservative leader Rev. Bausch to hand over keys of OB parish to Diocese.

By Christopher Cadelago / signonsandiego.com/ December 28, 2010

The Rev. Canon Lawrence Bausch expects to surrender the keys to his Ocean Beach church to the Episcopal Diocese of San Diego on Thursday, closing a chapter in an international conflict intensified by the election of an openly gay bishop.

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Who has more ‘True Grit’-The Duke or The Dude?

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Movie Review: John Wayne vs. Jeff Bridges by Owen Gleiberman / Entertainment Weekly / December 27, 2010 It doesn’t take…

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Reader Rant: Is it still okay to hate gays?

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Reader Rant: I am a gay OBcian. I noticed with broad interest that this blog published a photo and short…

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Top political stories of San Diego in 2010

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Top political stories? There were so many … and so many were, in a word, bad. by Arthur Salm / SanDiego.com…

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Right-wing domestic bombers in Oregon sentenced to die

 Source  December 27, 2010  2 Comments on Right-wing domestic bombers in Oregon sentenced to die

Editor: Why would the OB Rag publish this story? Corporate media is filled with articles about the FBI catching “would-be”…

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