Students at Deportola Middle School in Clairemont Mesa also dropped under their desks for cover as the simulated quake hit. 325,000 County students participated. (photo: nbcsandiego)

A former lawyer and current grassroots activist, I have been editing the Rag since Patty Jones and I launched it in Oct 2007. Way back during the Dinosaurs in 1970, I founded the original Ocean Beach People’s Rag - OB’s famous underground newspaper -, and then later during the early Eighties, published The Whole Damn Pie Shop, a progressive alternative to the Reader.