Growing up in the 1990s, I worked and shopped at various stores/companies that now no longer exist. I worked at Mann Movie Theaters in high school, Borders BookS and Music in college, and frequently shopped at Tower Records in the San Fernando Valley. All are distant memories of the past.
Back in the mid- to late 1990s, Fox News and CNN were the top news sources, with MSNBC on its way up. Yet, whether you were a Fox News fan or CNN watcher, you tuned in because both channels were going to not just report the news but also expl…
From 1999 to 2017 I worked as a teacher and coach and Sunday school teacher. I’ve worked with kids of all age groups, and I can easily say not one of them was exactly alike. Often we think of kids in collective terms, as if they all like the …
On March 30, 2023, former United States President Donald Trump was indicted on 34 charges dealing with business fraud, with adult film actress Stormy Daniels at the center of the counts. Trump has become the first ex-president arrested for a …
If there has been one word to transcend the cultural zeitgeist and become a word that has many connotations, it is the word “woke.” Gen Z wants to look woke. Conservatives claim “wokeness” is destroying everything. But it appears that many ca…
Right now there are three high profile contenders for the 2024 presidential race: current president Joe Biden, former president Donald Trump and potential GOP candidate Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. While we all have a basic understanding of…
The plight of man has always been connected to his fertility and ability to feel masculine. What we have seen over the years is that men who feel confident in their masculinity have been labeled with having “toxic masculinity.” While there ar…
Over the past 14 years I’ve written about the Oscars every year. Every year there has been some scandal that becomes an allegorical microcosm of our Western Society. The reason I love the Oscars is because I love films. Any of my loyal reader…
I’ll be 42 this year. For us fans of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, 42 is the most important number in the galaxy. Douglas Adams wrote in his science fiction classic, “The answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and every…
The GOP and the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week
The current state of the Republican Party, aka the Grand Old Party, is not healthy. What should have been a landslide red wave victory this past November became an embarrassing thud, with the DNC keeping the Senate and now the GOP debating if…
Millennials and Gen Z have a word they love using called “adulting.” The word has become the go-to word when 20-40 year olds need to describe taking care of their responsibilities. The dictionary defines it as “the practice of behaving in a w…
It’s 2022 and our culture has been battling significant issues (racial inequality and sexual harassment) and insignificant issues (wokeness in Disney movies) for the past few years, with progress in some areas while in others, people still fe…
Back in 2018, I had a long phone call with the Ventura County Reporter’s editor at the time about the future of this particular byline.
The now infamous movie producer Harvey Weinstein has returned to Los Angeles to defend himself against a handful of different accusers. Weinstein is currently in prison in New York for the sexual assault of multiple women, but has been transf…
Over the past two years our country has had a real turnaround in how we view race in our culture. While much of this has produced open conversation and started a road to better outcomes, we cannot deny that most of the finger pointing has bee…
One of the most influential voices of the past six to seven years has been Canadian college professor and cultural critic Jordan Peterson. The popular conservative-leaning clinical psychologist has become a target in Hollywood, watching comic…
As 2022 winds down, the 2024 election begins. Soon we will have primaries and town hall debates and in the saddest state of affairs, many of the same tired old names will reappear to take on the title of President of the United States. If I m…
I’m a 40-year-old millennial, born in 1981, which means I’ll be 41 next month and one of the oldest millennials in the country. What I find is that the old millennials are a generation of lost souls, just floating back and forth between “old …
PICTURED: Football lies just short of the goaline by Paul Moomjean paulmoomjean@yahoo.com It’s back to school season, and for me this is always a mixture of nostalgia and PTSD. From 1999 until 2017 I was a teacher and wrestling coach in Ven…
by Paul Moomjean paulmoomjean@yahoo.com Easily one of the greatest fears of a Donald Trump presidency was the ushering in of extreme talking heads and corrupt lobbyists. With Trump there was the trifecta of campaign manager Roger Stone, advi…
by Paul Moomjean paulmoomjean@yahoo.com We all watch Netflix or are aware of its contribution to both the economy and entertainment worlds we live in, but for those unaware, it is currently in a dark age unseen. Netflix execs are finding tha…
by Paul Moomjean paulmoomjean@yahoo.com As we enter the heart of the summer of 2022, there are two burning questions: How much more money can Top Gun: Maverick make and who is going to be running for president in 2024? Okay. Maybe neither of…
by Paul Moomjean paulmoomjean@yahoo.com It’s amazing how a day can change everything. While prepping for this week’s article, I was looking at breaking down the reasons the new Disney and Pixar film Lightyear bombed at the box office due to a…
By Paul Moomjean paulmoomjean@yahoo.com I don’t know if America was ever great. I know that America has the potential to be great. The foundations of greatness are there. Yet, we can all acknowledge that while the American experiment has had…
by Paul Moomjean paulmoomjean@yahoo.com In the state of Texas last week, Robb Elementary School in Uvalde was attacked by an 18-year-old boy, who legally bought an AR-15 rifle and murdered 19 children and two teachers. This becomes the echo…
by Paul Moomjean paulmoomjean@yahoo.com For the past decade plus, I’ve written about topics with a basic understanding of the subject matter. Whether it be elections, social media or cultural issues, I’ve always had some formidable grasp of t…
by Paul Moomjean paulmoomjean@yahoo.com Almost two years after the pandemic began, and we’ve seen the beginning of the fall of streaming services. After bingeing Tiger King and every dating show, America is waking up from its content coma an…
Photo pictured by ©stnazkul/123RF.COM by Paul Moomjean paulmoomjean@yahoo.com If there is one platform that keeps us connected, even if completely flawed, it is social media. Our reliance on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and whatever else we …
by Paul Moomjean paulmoomjean@yahoo.com As I write this article, I’m overwhelmed by the fact that April 1 aka April Fool’s Day feels like it started two years ago and hasn’t quite ended. On top of all of the lunacy since the 2020 election, …
by Paul Moomjean paulmoomjean@yahoo.com The most influential conservative pastor in America for the past 20 to 30 years has been a man by the name of John MacArthur. His San Fernando Valley church, Grace Community Church, has been around for …
by Paul Moomjean paulmoomjean@yahoo.com Since 1992 I can remember watching the Academy Awards with my grandma and select family and friends. Terminator 2: Judgment Day won a lot that night. Ever since 1995, I can remember getting up at fiv…
by Paul Moomjean paulmoomjean@yahoo.com In every dystopian science fiction film, the hero is informed about a time in the past when people were free, and how the overlords took over because they all wanted safety and got their current night…
