OB Rag

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.

I have been watching the controversy of the naming of the La Jolla ______Parade (you call it what you want…

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

Excerpts from San Diego: 1st City of Empire, by Rocky Neptun, to be published in May, 2011 by the San…

You can almost feel it in the air. The tension. There is so much tension right now between President Obama…

December 1st was the night of the Ocean Beach Planning Board. The endangered Torrey Pine tree that’s been living on…

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.

Whatever you think of Julian Assange and WikiLeaks, the unprecedented campaign by the U.S. government and corporate America to silence the…

    There are eight Torrey Pine trees on the 4600 block of Saratoga Avenue in northeast Ocean Beach.  They…

by Grok Surf”s San Diego (City of San Diego Public Utilities Department press release dated Dec. 6, 2010) The City…

      OB Elementary – along with two other elementary schools and one K-8 school in the County –…

by George J. Janczyn / GrokSurf’s San Diego / December 9, 2010 “Signs of the tide — San Diego’s water…