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I recently attended the screening of a documentary film at the

Dear readers, I present to you, Mr. Charles Dickens, a man of his time, the time of the Victorians - and also a man of our own modern time. Allow me to have the portentousness to suggest that Mr. Dickens, that titan of Victorian literature, if he were alive today, would find in our age a blend of social commentary and larger-than-life characters to fill a hundred great novels.

Thanks to the serious drought in California, Harry and I are doing a bit of remodeling in our Gilroy backyard.

Congregation Emeth, South Valley's Jewish Community that was

"Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main ballpark."

It's that time of year again: summer vacation. School is out,

Medical insurance used to be so simple. Expensive, but simple. We paid bucketloads in monthly premium dollars, and for that I got to go see the doctor where I deposited the "co-pay." How easy was that?

Well, the days are getting shorter, school has started, and