Garen Mouths Off
An Object Lesson
This class started May 13 with insipid comments on the Bill Handel Show on KFI640 AM in the “LA market.” First point to take note of, an Armenian listener, hearing Handel’s comments, was offended, and […]
Columns
Tom Vartabedian
Telemarketers Have My Ears Ringing
I hate telemarketers. They must detest me, too, judging by the way I hang up on them. I just don’t do telephone solicitations, especially when the call comes at dinner time and I’m fully engrossed […]
My Turn
High-Ranking Obama Official Refuses to Acknowledge the Genocide
President Barack Obama continues to disappoint the Armenian American community. After breaking two promises in a row on key Armenian issues—not acknowledging the Armenian Genocide and proposing reduced U.S. aid levels to Armenia—he appoints Philip […]
Garen Mouths Off
What a Ride III: Glendale & Special & Burbank
Not only was the election with me as a candidate very illuminating (see What a Ride II), but Glendale’s April 7 and California’s May 19 special elections must also serve as eye-openers. Let’s start with […]
Uncle Garabed's Notebook
Uncle Garabed’s Notebook
From A Tramp Abroad It seems that the heavy work in the quarries and the new railway gradings [in Germany] is done mainly by Italians. That was a revelation. We have the notion in our […]
Tom Vartabedian
You only live once—make it last!
If I were a cat, I would have six lives remaining. That’s because I already used up three of them. The first came early in my marriage when I pulled over to the side of […]
Uncle Garabed's Notebook
Uncle Garabed’s Notebook
Confession? Good taste is the enemy of creativity. … Pablo Picasso From the Trivia File Victor Emmanuel II (1820-78), first king of Italy, was popularly called Father of his Country in allusion to his unnumbered […]
My Turn
Erdogan Finally Admits Turkey Practiced Ethnic Cleansing
In a daring statement, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan admitted for the first time that the expulsion from Turkey of tens of thousands of ethnic Greeks in the last century was a “fascist” act, […]
Garen Mouths Off
Call to Action: It’s OK to Say…
“Garen will finish what Hitler/Pol Pot/Milosevic started,” right? See, it’s only a friend kidding around. It’s all for ratings advertising money through shock-jockery. It’s OK, at least that’s gotta be Bill Handel’s (of Clear Channel-owned […]
My Turn
Germany and Turkey: Similar in Crime, Different in Penance
The Los Angeles Chapter of the American Jewish Committee (AJC) traditionally invites as guests to its “Annual Meeting” (banquet) members of the local consular corps and leaders of various religious and ethnic groups. On April […]