Category Archives: Los Angeles

Sailer: Another SoCal Contribution to World Culture: The Televised Car Chase

Steve Sailer writes: It’s a cliche, but I have to say that police pursuits televised from helicopters still make for pretty hypnotic TV. The cops have been chasing a carjacked pickup truck around the San Fernando Valley this afternoon. Finally, … Continue reading

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Letter From A Los Angeles High School

Link: Dear Hillary, I attended L.A. public schools for about half a school year, back during forced busing in the early 1970s….. Never once, not ONE TIME, did I see a white student harass, intimidate, or humiliate a black student. … Continue reading

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Reviews Of The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority

Perhaps it is not intrinsically that Metro is so horrible but that many of the people who use it are particularly horrible, and most of the bus drivers are surly. Reviews on Google: * US has done a better job … Continue reading

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Where Is Dead Man’s Curve On Sunset Blvd?

Steve Sailer writes: In 1982 I was driving with a college friend from Houston through Dead Man’s Curve on Sunset Blvd but there was a traffic jam. Eventually, we saw why: Scott Baio, star of the then hot new show … Continue reading

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Is Your Neighborhood Racist?

Tamara Shayne Kagel writes: Amid our ongoing national conversation over race, the denizens of my liberal Los Angeles neighborhood—who like to think of themselves as being Caucasian by accident while being upper-class by dessert—bubbled over with defensiveness when someone politely … Continue reading

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