Have Your Own Personal Shopper in the $1 Rooms at THE LAST BOOK STORE until 6 PM Christmas Eve!

On a budget and looking for last minute presents?  The one dollar per book second floor at THE LAST BOOK STORE is open until just before 6 PM tonight and I will be t ac as a person shopper.  Tell me what you’re looking for or what your recipient is interested in – and I will do my best to find it for you.  Located at 5th and Spring in the heart of Downtown LA – 453 S. Spring in the Spring Arts Tower.  And if you can't find me - just call 213-804-83976.

LA Times Exposes Boy Scouts Long Term Refusal to Screen For Sexual Predators

The Los Angeles Times - and particularly reporters Marc Duvoisin and Kim Christensen (along with Ashley Powers and their editors) -  is to be congratulated for exposing this long buried story about child abuse within the Boy Scouts.

Every day I am reminded more and more of just how much evil exists among us.  Evil that is unknowing aided by those who fail to see the true motives of those who claim to be helping those among us who are unable to protect themselves.  Too often, as we have seen in Downtown and on Skid Row - it is the young, the poor and the mentally ill who are being exploited by their would be benefactors.