Everyone has the same rights and privileges at Disneyland; everyone is treated equally. Maybe Disneyland is a working model of socialism.
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Debra DeAngelo
Columnist - March 9, 2018 in Columnists
Death to Daylight Saving Time or Standard Time — take your pick
The biannual, nonsensical clock ritual of Daylight Saving Time and Standard time must end — no more springing forward and falling back!
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Debra DeAngelo
Columnist - March 2, 2018 in Columnists
The answer to gun violence is ‘all of the above’
As the gun control debate rages on, the most frustrating aspect of this ideological fight to the death is its “either/or” nature. It’s not “either/or.” It’s “all of the above.” It’s injecting sanity into our gun laws, like raising the purchase age to 21. If...
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Debra DeAngelo
Columnist - February 23, 2018 in Columnists
Our problem isn’t gun violence — it’s domestic terrorism
The problem with guns is the people that hold them.
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Debra DeAngelo
Columnist - February 15, 2018 in Columnists
We must chop off the head of the gun violence serpent, and it’s not the NRA
The NRA isn't the root of gun violence in American — it's the members of Congress who accept gun lobby money that are.
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Debra DeAngelo
Columnist - February 9, 2018 in Columnists
Let’s abandon the Annual Light String Ritual
“So, are your Christmas lights up really early or are you really late taking them down?” asks Joe the Butcher, who I’ve re-nicknamed Joe the Jokester — Joekester for short. Before you hurtle down the wrong mental trail, no, Joe the Butcher is not sketchy...
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Debra DeAngelo
Columnist - February 2, 2018 in Columnists
If we can’t believe in Ellen, we can’t believe in anything
Ellen's Game of Games is a disturbing public display of sadomasochism.
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Debra DeAngelo
Columnist - January 28, 2018 in Columnists
Socialism and the Magic Kingdom
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Debra DeAngelo
Columnist - January 15, 2018 in Columnists
Me at 30, she at 30
Today, I reach a major life milestone: a Big Birthday, one that ends in “0.” But not mine. My daughter’s. And that makes it ever so much bigger. My baby is turning 30! My youngest! How can this be! Cognitive dissonance rattles my brain. I’m...
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Debra DeAngelo
Columnist - January 5, 2018 in Columnists
Oh, the evil roundabout…
Not since the much-dreaded Burger King reared its weirdly disturbing crowned head on Grant Avenue have Winters residents been this enraged. People are pissed. Step aside, downtown hotel with no on-site parking and stupid piebald beaver — there’s a new Big Issue in town, and...
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