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What Are You Shooting For? by Roberto Rubalcava et. al. 1993

Jul 9, 2021

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This mural no longer exists. I thought it was one of the best ones in Los Angeles, because it was so postmodern, but also specific to its location and time. I didn’t realize, until I did research, that it was created in 1993, a long time ago. It was created not long after the term…

How to Remove Rusty Scale From Your Toilet Bowl

Apr 21, 2021

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in Life Hacks

If you have hard water, your toilet bowl will develop ugly mineral scale deposits. When these are brown, they’re called “rust” stains, but it’s not rust. These three techniques to clean out the bowl are easy, and two of them are pretty safe. The last is dangerous, but fast. For all these methods, you need…

Eviction of Seniors to a COVID-19 Impacted Facility

Mar 2, 2021

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in Local, Politics

This ongoing story of the patients of Sakura Gardens ICF, formerly Keiro, is looking bad, with a looming threat that residents will be transferred to the Kei-Ai nursing home facility, which has the highest COVID-19 death rate in California. Ongoing information is published at the group fighting these transfers, Save Our Seniors. For a comprehensive…

COVID-19 Vaccination Inequality

Feb 26, 2021

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in Politics

These are a few stories about how vaccination efforts to focus on the groups facing the most infection were undermined, and led to privileged people getting vaccinated. Los Angeles TL;DR: California and Los Angeles need to focus on getting vaccinations to working class Latino communities, which are extremely under-vaccinated. Los Angeles Times: Work-at-Homers Got Appointment…

Henry George’s Racist Screed Against Chinese People in California, New York Tribune, May 1, 1869

Feb 26, 2021

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in History, Racism

I was forwarded a paper that was published in a journal. I wondered what the journal was about, and found that they were looking to preserve the intellectual lineage of Henry George, a late 19th century philosopher and early Progressive reformer of capitalism. He wanted land to be held in common, and was known for…

On High Rates of Infection in the Latino Communities

Feb 6, 2021

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in SARS-CoV-2

The management of this pandemic is racist as hell. I looked back over my emails and some posts, and I was going off on the issue of essential workers and crowded housing back in April of 2020. This barely ever came up in the media as an important factor in the spread of COVID-19, until…

How to take a “tour” of how much damage COVID-19 has done, using the LA County surveillance dashboard.

Dec 26, 2020

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in Politics

Go to the Dashboard. This article shows you how to click on the map and compare the COVID-19 stats for different communities. We’ll see the large disparities between communities in Los Angeles County.

Katsuo Carl Imakyure, in Los Angeles 1940

Dec 22, 2020

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in Local

This person may have been a relative. It’s hard to know. My father had a letter sent to some government agency looking for him. Recent internet searches turned up photos, and this document, which is a record of the 1940 census. He boarded at a house at 305 E. 2nd St. in Los Angeles. This…

Exiting Amazon (Again)

Oct 4, 2020

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in Politics

I got blocked from posting reviews, so I decided to start a review blog. I just like writing reviews. The blog is called product8reviews. After writing a few articles, it dawned on me that I had some Amazon reviews that I could copy over. It turns out I had around 120 reviews, and over 100,000…

Trolling and Gloating: Masks for COVID-19

Sep 8, 2020

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in Politics, SARS-CoV-2

I got a notification that someone on Twitter liked a statement by a rival in a troll-flame war. So I reviewed my tweets from mid-July, 2020. As I write this, in mid-September, 2020, I feel like saying “told you so.”