Reading different entries, it's obvious to me that there are haters out there. People have their targets and their own individual reasons for hating. Everyone has a right to their opinions. I also have a list of people I absolutely hate. People who absolutely are quite capable of making my life miserable. I'll bet I'm not the only one who hates these people. Here is a small listing of some of them: SINGERS: We've all run into them, and never by choice. At work, school, city streets, standi...

I ask for your indulgence. This one is going to take some explaining. Settle in. Names have been changed for the usual reasons. I live in Los Angeles, but I was raised in an outlying desert suburb that seemed like a totally different world from here. The town was no great shakes, but far from the worst place you could be. At the time, there was a lot of the rural area-type of naivete that you might find in a less cosmopolitan state. To give you an idea, back in the year of my high school ...