Paul Whitefield is the former copy chief of the editorial pages and a writer/scold for the Opinion L.A. blog. He graduated from the University of Nebraska and has a master’s degree from the University of Hawaii, not that it’s helped much. A Texas native, he lives in the suburbs with a family who loves him and a cat who thinks he’s prey, and wonders why everyone doesn’t move to L.A. He left The Times in 2015.
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The saying goes: “When you’re already in a hole, stop digging.”
July 16, 2014
There are only two certainties in life, it’s said: death and taxes.
July 14, 2014
I use Facebook. It depresses me sometimes.
July 1, 2014
Worried about Iraq, Syria and the threat from ISIS?
June 30, 2014
When someone dies, folks often say: “They don’t make them like that anymore.”
June 26, 2014
Face it, some people just aren’t good with money. And then there are the Clintons.
June 24, 2014
Three hundred Spartans once held off the Persian hordes at Thermopylae.
June 19, 2014
Iraq may well be sliding into civil war, but now, it seems, the strife over there is also sparking an uncivil war here at home.
June 18, 2014
Joni Mitchell once sang, memorably, “They paved paradise to put up a parking lot.”
June 16, 2014
Just what should a job pay?
June 13, 2014