Kevin Faulconer Breaks Ground on Ocean Beach ‘Gateway’ Project
By Brittany Bailey/Special to the OB Rag Shortly after eleven am this morning, District 2 Councilmember Kevin Faulconer broke ground…
Month: December 2010
Posted in: Culture, Environment, Ocean Beach, Popular
City looks to the beaches to save its ass with paid parking and corporate advertising.
Frank Gormlie December 14, 2010 7 Comments on City looks to the beaches to save its ass with paid parking and corporate advertising.
In last Sunday’s (12-12-10) San Diego U-T, there was a disturbing “in-depth” article about how the City of San Diego,…
Posted in: Economy, Environment, Ocean Beach, San Diego
CONFIRMED: New Study Proves That Fox News Makes You Stupid
Yet another study has been released that proves that watching Fox News is detrimental to your intelligence. World Public Opinion, a project managed by the Program on International Policy Attitudes at the University of Maryland, conducted a survey of American voters that shows that Fox News viewers are significantly more misinformed than consumers of news from other sources. What’s more, the study shows that greater exposure to Fox News increases misinformation.
Posted in: Culture, Media, War and Peace
Christmas, Holiday, Chanukah, Kwanzaa, etc. Does it really matter?
Judi Curry December 14, 2010 13 Comments on Christmas, Holiday, Chanukah, Kwanzaa, etc. Does it really matter?
I have been watching the controversy of the naming of the La Jolla ______Parade (you call it what you want…
Posted in: Culture, The Widder Curry
Anna’s video pick – Behold the Power of the Internet
OBRag writer Doug Porter recommends this video about flash mob dynamics and the Global Guerrillas blog which posted it.
Doug adds “Now if we could only figure out a way to use this to bring down a couple of banks..”
Flash Mob Gone Wrong by Tom Scott, Ep 77
Posted in: Anna's Video Pick, Culture, Media
Live by the Sword, Die by the Sword: San Diego LGBT Publisher Kills Himself
Rocky Neptun December 14, 2010 1 Comment on Live by the Sword, Die by the Sword: San Diego LGBT Publisher Kills Himself
Excerpts from San Diego: 1st City of Empire, by Rocky Neptun, to be published in May, 2011 by the San…
Posted in: Civil Rights, Culture, LGBT rights, Organizing
The Left Revolts Against Obama
You can almost feel it in the air. The tension. There is so much tension right now between President Obama…
Posted in: Economy, Organizing, War and Peace
Tagged: Barack Obama
The Saving of Just One Torrey Pine, Part Three
December 1st was the night of the Ocean Beach Planning Board. The endangered Torrey Pine tree that’s been living on…
Posted in: Culture, Economy, Environment, Ocean Beach, Organizing, San Diego
Tagged: OB Planning Board, Torrey Pine
Bernie Sanders takes to the floor to protest the Tax Cut Deal
Patty Jones December 11, 2010 7 Comments on Bernie Sanders takes to the floor to protest the Tax Cut Deal
Senator Bernie Sanders – independent from Vermont – took to the floor of the Senate to protest the tax cut deal. According to reports he spoke for more than eight hours. Go Bernie! Too bad there aren’t more like him. See a bit of his speech below.
Posted in: Civil Rights, Economy, War and Peace
Stop the lynch-mob attacks on WikiLeaks – Sign the Petition
Whatever you think of Julian Assange and WikiLeaks, the unprecedented campaign by the U.S. government and corporate America to silence the…
Posted in: Civil Disobedience, Civil Rights, War and Peace, World News
The Saratoga Torrey Pines and the Sidewalks Below
There are eight Torrey Pine trees on the 4600 block of Saratoga Avenue in northeast Ocean Beach. They…
Posted in: Culture, Environment, Ocean Beach
Tagged: Torrey Pine
Fluoridation in San Diego Water Begins December 22nd
by Grok Surf”s San Diego (City of San Diego Public Utilities Department press release dated Dec. 6, 2010) The City…
Posted in: Environment, Health, Popular, San Diego
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