Lakers...Who Cares!

As Laker frenzy starts to smother Los Angeles like a dense, Central Valley fog as the NBA finals begin, why should anyone really care about guys and an organization making 100s of millions of bucks for playing a game? Really!

If everyone boycotted exorbitantly priced leisure activities like the sports teams and entertained themselves for free by walking, or biking, or volunteering or in 100s of millions of other ways, society would benefit and common sense perspective might be regained.

5.4 Earthquake Jolts Los Angeles Basin

Ok, so this is a famous photo from our last big earthquake here in the Los Angeles basin. But, we were jolted by a 5.4 magnitude quake at about 11:45 a.m. today. Though not a biggy, lifelong residents were even a bit startled which is surprising given that most of us locals tend to sit and sit and sit (or stay in bed if it's early in the a.m.) waiting to see if an earthquake warrants us actually moving our bodies to the doorway. Photo: The Interstate 5/14 interchange, north of Los Angeles, was one of only seven overpasses to collapse in the devastating 1994 Northridge earthquake. January 17, 1994. Magnitude 6.7