News Flash: In response to the explosion in online dating websites, an Orange County businessman has created a new web-based relationship service that he believes serves an underrepresented segment of the singles market... Losers. Dennis Thorn, a long-time resident of Orange … [Read more...]

Dear WBOR-FM Fundraising Appeal: I was so happy to receive your latest solicitation letter and I wish to apologize for the delay in my response. I am a long-time supporter of WBOR-FM and its superb programming and I am honored to be included in your fundraising appeal again this … [Read more...]

Several years ago, I discovered an article which claimed that a monkey whacking randomly at a typewriter would eventually reproduce Shakespeare's Hamlet. (Newer articles replace "typewriter" with "IBM ThinkPad" and "Hamlet" with "Harry Potter.") This article fascinated me, not … [Read more...]

Contrary to popular belief, wine drinkers are not as sophisticated as once thought. Especially when the wine is free. My husband and I are members of a local vineyard’s wine club. This past weekend we attended a wine tasting event sponsored by the vineyard in appreciation of … [Read more...]

I was driving along a strange highway, passing a ramp to the Manson Family farm, when my baby son began to cry. Pulling over, ignoring the feral pack of wolves near the Stuckey’s sign, I opened the van’s back door. He had dropped his pacifier. Unfortunately, he saw it in my … [Read more...]