OB Rag

A Majority of Americans Support Legalization of Marijuana Now for the First Time

This is an Open Letter to President Barack Obama Calling on him to legalize marijuana.

If you legalize marijuana, Mr. President, you’ll get the youth vote and win the 2012 Presidential election. It’s as simple as that. However you do it, Mr. President, if you legalize cannabis, you’ll then do for the young of this country what you did for the Mexican-American and Latino populations, and then what you did for the gay and lesbian communities earlier this year.

How is this so? …

By Barry Ladendorf
In many parts of the world, people will pause to commemorate what happened 67 years ago on August 6, 1945, when the United States unleashed the most diabolical weapon in the history of mankind on the city of Hiroshima, Japan. Three days later on August 9th, the same hellish fire consumed the city of Nagasaki. It is estimated that 250,000 people died as a result of the bombs.

On June 4th, the San Diego Free Press was launched as an online news source for the San Diego area, promising in its byline, “Progressive views and neighborhood news.” It was the latest effort in citizen journalism to hit San Diego. So how is it doing, two months into its re-birth?

Re-birth it is, for the original San Diego Free Press was published for about one year, 1968 to 1969, …

Talking with Alex, a 28 year old skateboarder from Ocean Beach, I learned more about skateboarding in our ten minute conversation than I think I knew about the sport in total. But then again, I ride bicycles – not skateboards.

But Alex has a complaint – a major complaint about the OB Skateboard Park in Robb Field, …

By Dr. Warren M. Patch

After spending seven straight days in deep, intensive study and daily meditation at the World-Wide, Self-Realization Fellowship Convocation in Los Angeles, I think I finally got it all figured out:

Your Spine is Your Chi Chiminea for Your Transistor Radio.

What? Yep, that’s right. It’s that simple.

Editor: This came to us via email and we decided to make it one of our infamous and irregular “Reader Rants”.

By Former OB Planning Board Member

As I was reading through Brenda McFarlane’s excellent report of this week’s Ocean Beach Planning Board, something she said in her report and the photo that was included really struck me. Ms McFarlane stated that, ” Next, the much discussed issue of Variances. …

Editor: Our columnist Judi Curry was selected to join the National Tour because of her insights into dog behavior which she often expresses in her column “The Widder Curry”. Judi declined to join the tour outside San Diego but attended the kick-off event and filed this report.

Tour Coincides With Veterinary Annual Convention in San Diego this Week

No, this isn’t an article to appear in the “Sex in San Diego” column. Rather this is the beginning of a National tour beginning in San Diego to help animal owners tackle behavior problems and help save pets.

Sundara
1424 Sunset Cliffs Blvd.
619-889-0639

Have you ever driven down Sunset Cliffs Blvd. and seen a very small café with a few tables outside teeming with customers near the corner of Point Loma Avenue? The name of that restaurant is “Point Loma Beach Café.” This review is not about that restaurant; rather it is about the Sundara that shares the space from 5:00-10:00pm every night except Tuesday.

Although no longer a bike rider because the roads around Ocean Beach scare me, I usually support those people that have the nerve to ride their bikes along Cable, Sunset Cliffs, and Bacon. But my sympathy ends when I follow the rules and the biker doesn’t.

A case in point: I was traveling down Cable Street towards a meeting on Voltaire when I came to a stop at Santa Monica and Cable, …

Here are some short articles recently published about Ocean Beach and its denizens.

Ron – the Rock Stacker

Dave Rice, at the San Diego Reader tells us about Ron, the OBcean who stacks rocks in his “spare” time. …

Two Women Seriously Injured in Fall from Sunset Cliffs

Two women were seriously injured Saturday when they fell off Sunset Cliffs near Ladera Street in South OB (haha – Point Loma).

Raccoons Give OB Tenant and Property Manager Headache – Was it the Cat?

The raccoon noise at the Maggards’ Narragansett Avenue apartment in Ocean Beach began in early May. They were often awakened around three in the morning to a racket above their bedroom.

We’re Reminded Why OB Has Lifeguards – OB’s Deadliest Day at the Beach

The Voice of San Diego reminds us in an older post of theirs why we have lifeguards at all.

Having just gotten off the phone with Richard Dhu, program manager at the San Diego River Park Foundation, I found I had to totally re-orient the article I was writing about on whether his clean river program rousts the homeless from the San Diego River area. It does not do that, he said.

I had called him because of a U-T San Diego article written by Mike Lee about the Foundation’s latest river clean-up. In his article, posted July 27th, Lee – it appears – misrepresented what the Foundation is doing. In his opening sentence, Lee spells out his perspective:

“The San Diego River Park Foundation is launching a yearlong cleanup initiative in the Mission Valley Preserve to reduce homeless camps and garbage that gathers along the river’s lower stretch.” (My emphasis.)

“That’s not what we’re doing,” Richard told me this morning when I asked him about Lee’s article. Richard told me that is not what he told Lee. There is nothing about dealing with the homeless in his group’s mission statement, plus, Richard said, they receive grant monies and not any for rousting homeless people.