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Los Angeles for Less
By: Joseph Anthony
Aerial view of Los Angeles. Photograph by Bruce Dale.
To enjoy Los Angeles, let alone get a good deal, you have to focus. Los Angeles County is 4,083 square miles huge; more than three million people live within the city limits. Out-of-towners can easily spend a large part of their vacation trapped behind the wheel of a car, becoming m.../> Beverly Hills Visitors Bureau 239 S. Beverly Dr., Beverly Hills 90212; 310-271-8174.
Los Angeles Convention and Visitors Bureau 633 W. Fifth St., Suite 6000, Los Angeles 90071; 213-624-7300 or, for recorded information, 213-689-8822.
Santa Monica Visitor Center 1400 Ocean Ave., Santa Monica 90401; 310-393-7593.
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Well, let's see now

Given the remarkable assertion that the Left is insane, offensive, and totally without moral restraint, whereas the Right is beyond compare as scions of civil discourse, and any evidence to the contrary of either is utterly non-representative, let me offer some counter-examples culled from sources that I believe we can indeed reach consensus on as representing the "mainstream" right.
Obama...in response to Palin's insinuations that "Our opponent ... is someone who sees America, it seems, as being so imperfect, imperfect enough, that he's palling around with terrorists who would target their own country." The GOP base thinks Obama is an Arab, a terrorist, and "still has the muslim in him". The Secret Service is investigating shouts of "kill him" from one crowd at a Palin rally.

Financial Guru Blasts Obama

Financial Guru Blasts Obama
Bloomberg guest calls him a dishonest prostitute.
Late Tuesday afternoon, Bloomberg Television Street Smart show, the guest is Gloom Boom & Doom Report, the publisher Marc Faber. The cohost here Matt Miller said, "Let me ask you about the State of the Union [show.] We're gonna hear from the president on what he's done for the past couple years and what he ...e now he'll start changing the system."
FABER: You're an optimist. Keep on dreaming. We foreigners, we just laugh, we just laugh about someone like Mr. Obama. I was very critical of Mr. Bush, but at least he had one line and he stuck to that line. He may have been wrong, and I criticized him very frequently, but at least he didn't change his mind continuously and didn't prostitute himself.

Rush and Newt Are Winning

A media environment that tilts to the right is obscuring what President Obama stands for and closing off political options that should be part of the public discussion.
Yes, you read that correctly: If you doubt that there is a conservative inclination in the media, consider which arguments you hear regularly and which you don't. When Rush Limbaugh sneezes or Newt Gingrich tweets, their v...gentina.
Democrats are complicit in building up Gingrich and Limbaugh as the main spokesmen for the Republican Party, since Obama polls so much better than either of them. But the media play an independent role by regularly treating far-right views as mainstream positions and by largely ignoring critiques of Obama that come from elected officials on the left.
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Class Structure and Art

It would be interesting to see an economist & an art historian do a treatise on this subject.
If you read these 2 books it will give you a good sense of the rising Avant Garde in Paris at the turn of the 20th Century & the effect of the rising Industrialist Class in the USA and their effects on that Avant Garde.
Proud Tower by Barbara W. Tuchman
A Portrait of the World B...rt in our time.
You could make an argument that there are issues of class warfare in that system.
You could also make the argument that many of the "popular arts" [music, cinema, television...] "pander to the street" up to a point... a distraction by corporate USA to make the vast "un-washed masses" believe that they have a stake in the system.
maybe that's a little cynical...