Politics & Policy

The Sorrows of Young Ehrenreich

By Catherine Seipp February 27, 2007

Young Ben Ehrenreich — a lefty true-believer, like his author-mother Barbara — wrote an opinion piece for the Los Angeles Times earlier this month about getting his girlfriend’s broken ankle ...

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Mean Old Republicans Care

By Catherine Seipp January 22, 2007

I first began noticing the many odd notions people have about health insurance last year, after I wrote a Los Angeles Times op-ed about my troubles with Blue Cross and ...

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Media Moments 2006

By Catherine Seipp January 5, 2007

It was another memorable year for the media, a year in which I  managed to get involved in various dustups, some humorous and some which were fine examples of the ...

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Boxes of Wonder

By Catherine Seipp December 22, 2006

One of the unfairest demands adults make of children’s literature is that it conform to their particular religious or political notions of worthiness, and the new film projects of C. ...

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Your Grandma Wore Science Buttons

By Catherine Seipp December 1, 2006

I think it was the streakers who rushed the stage when I spoke at USC earlier this year, looking exactly like the streakers I remember from the ‘70s, that gave ...

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Pet Suggestion

By Catherine Seipp November 20, 2006

Media Bistro’s Fish Bowl L.A., an online gossip column about Los Angeles media, has been polling readers lately about what they’d like to see added — or dropped — from ...

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Customer Disservice

By Catherine Seipp November 13, 2006

As a member of the vast right-wing conspiracy I’d certainly like to believe that private enterprise is more efficient and ultimately cheaper than government-provided services. Yet lately it seems that ...

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Spring Street Project

By Catherine Seipp October 27, 2006

Just about a week after the Los Angeles Times announced they’ve put an investigative team to work trying to find out why they’re losing subscribers and alienating readers, the paper’s ...

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Party Manners

By Catherine Seipp October 20, 2006

Last month some friends gave a party in my honor, which was completely delightful except for one moment when a cranky, dumpy looking man I didn’t know from Adam tried ...

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Rockin’

By Catherine Seipp October 11, 2006

This season’s funniest new comedy, 30 Rock, debuts tonight on NBC. But much as I love it, I fear it might help lower the boom even faster on the expensive, ...