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There’s a couple new features at this here OB Rag website and we want to bring your attention to them….

By Julianne Escobedo Shepherd / AlterNet / Jan. 18, 2011 Before the health care bill banned it, Americans with “preexisting…

Here dear readers is a gallery of OB potholes – sent to us by a local who meticulously found, identified, and mapped a couple dozen axle-benders. We have arranged twelve of them in a gallery format.

So go to the image, click on it, and leave a comment under the photo of your fave pothole. (Keep clicking on the image to make it larger for viewing purposes.)

This is part of our two-week “Best Pothole in OB” Contest, begun last week.e

Increasingly, Democrats, liberals and progressives are coming to understand that the Koch brothers, a secretive right-wing billionaire family that pours limitless money into virtually every destructive anti-democratic initiative affecting tens of millions of Americans, are “Public Enemy Number One.”

Every year around this time, San Diego and Southern California enjoy a week or two of “unseasonable” warm weather. People go to the beach in swimsuits and actually go into the ocean.

The highs are in the 70’s. Overcoats are stashed, and the BBQ grills are rolled back out from their winter hibernation. But it’s only for a while.

I call it Primavera Falsa – False Spring – and like I said it happens every January.

Over the last few months , I wrote a couple of articles  about a whirlwind trip I took to Tucson, my hometown,…

Like a bogus Thespian, Jerry Sanders took to the stage of the Balboa Theater in mid-January, using every ounce of verbal ruse and sleight of mouth he possessed to attempt a bravado performance heralding his dreary and monotonous six years as Mayor of San Diego.

Sander’s speech, like his devious administration of city government as water boy for the corporate state, reflects a continuing tale of two cities.

Edited by Marjorie Cohn Just published by NYU Press Waterboarding. Sleep deprivation. Sensory manipulation. Stress positions. Over the last several…

by Lace Watkins / Special to the OB Rag / January 18, 2011 In more than 40 years since MLK’s…

It’s a slow news day.

Here is something other blogs do: present an “open thread” – an opportunity for readers to express what’s on their minds without having to cling to the subject of the post. For here, there’s no post … just your thoughts.

Go to it! Say your piece! Be a blogger for a day! C’mon, the water’s fine.

I’ll remember the scene for as long as I live, as it was so gratifying to look upon all those…

Every now and then, we’ll do a review of what’s been going down on Newport Avenue in Ocean Beach, what’s…