Yegparian: My Employer
I work for a large city in California. Late last fiscal year (spring 2009), in a fit of spite-laced “cost-cutting,” my employer decided to furlough, one day out of every two-week pay period, the roughly […]
I work for a large city in California. Late last fiscal year (spring 2009), in a fit of spite-laced “cost-cutting,” my employer decided to furlough, one day out of every two-week pay period, the roughly […]
This=43rd Assembly District Special Election of April 13, 2010. We= the Armenian community, in the 43rd and beyond. Win=electing Nayiri Nahabedian. Seems like it’s pretty simple math doesn’t it? But it’s not. Unfortunately, rather than […]
In this fourth of what started as a three-part series on LATimes coverage of interest to Armenians, let’s briefly visit Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Iran. As you might guess, Iran gets lots of coverage, what with […]
In this third of what started as a three-part series on LA Times coverage of interest to Armenians, I’ll address some Kurdish-topic patterns I’ve noticed over the past two-plus years. Arguably, the Kurds have fared […]
In this second of a three-part series on LA Times coverage of interest to Armenians, I’ll address some Turkish-topic patterns I’ve noticed over the past two-plus years. What’s notable is the tremendously lopsided proportion of […]
We were all pleased when the LA Times finally left the dark side by terminating its use of the word “alleged” every time it referred to the Genocide. We were also pleased when the paper […]
Hitler’s propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels, is famously noted to have said something to the effect of, “Repeat a lie enough times and it becomes the truth.” That’s part of what happened in Massachusetts. The Republican […]
Everyone’s heard about the in-church murder of the abortion provider in Kansas. Only last week, though, an interesting twist arose. The culprit plans to explain why he did it, in an attempt to have the […]
No doubt many politically right-leaning readers will see an oxymoron in this title. I see an almost redundancy. So I’m hoping to address a few issues in this realm, particularly since the New Year brings […]
We all wish one another, at least in English, a “happy” new year. But aside from the resolutions attendant to this time, we forget that a major component of happiness is another “h” word—health. So […]
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