#4 is obviously a photoshop: the sigalert has never showed that much green.

Bogus. Everybody knows Adam Scott’s true female doppleganger is Tig Notaro.

I fully acknowledge and accept that this makes us look like a bunch of babies. But here’s one reason why we find the cold so difficult in SoCal: most of the living units were built with our typically temperate climate in mind. Unlike houses and apartments in the rest of the country, the majority of apartments around LA are not at all airtight, and even with all doors and windows closed the interior is far from sealed shut.  All things being equal, I’d rather have a 0 degree night in Kansas than a 40 degree night in LA, because in the former you can be much more certain that the cold will not be seeping into your bedroom all night due to the inadequate nature of weather insulation.

As someone who’s lived in LA the last six years, I can tell you the city has one inarguable disadvantage to NY that trumps these (questionable) points: No decent pizza or bagels! (and please spare your Mozza recommendation - yes, you can put yourself on a month long wait list to spend $50 on a gourmet pizza dinner; that’s SO much better than being able to walk a block from your apartment in NY and get a slice of the world’s best pizza for $2). And yes, I have tried Vito’s, John’s of Bleecker SaMo, Brooklyn Bagel Co, The Bagel Factory, etc. All of them are fine APPROXIMATIONS of NY pizza or bagels in a pinch; none of them are anywhere near ACTUAL NY pizza or bagels.

You better listen, guys - this guy went to Duke, so he KNOWS arrogant.

So he just graduated from cable television crazy to actual deranged homeless person crazy.

Liberals, and people who prefer reality-based forecasting, “cling” to Silver’s statistical model because it has proven to be the most reliable predictor of elections. Comfort has nothing to do with it.

Mark it DOUBLE FAIL. And I’m a Chiefs fan.

The real death knell for the Voice creatively was when New Times & Voice Media merged and began gobbling up alt-weeklies from Maine to San Diego. Suddenly, these supposed bastions of individuality and anti-corporate hegemony no long cared that the local weekly in Los Angeles would be virtually identical to the one in Miami, Kansas City or Baltimore. Moreover, many of the most interesting writers and perspectives were axed, since what plays in Brooklyn doesn’t necessarily play in Des Moines, and the goal became assembling as many cookie-cutter articles as possible. It’s still a real shame; the Village Voice in its prime gave us groundbreaking columnists like Nat Hentoff, Andrew Sarris and Jonas Mekas. And now? Well now, this is the kind of piece the Voice Media empire has been reduced to writing:  http://blogs.laweekly.com/westcoastsound/2012/03/raver_electrical_tape_boobs_interview.php