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The United States had been fighting for seven weeks and the news was bad everywhere in the Pacific and in much of Europe and Africa. The plain facts were that America was woefully under-prepared and losing. In a misguided attempt to focus rage, governments from the local to national level ...

Here’s the latest on Seth Jacobs. The Arroyo Grande High senior linebacker, a four-star recruit, will not finalize his college decision until National Signing Day on Wednesday, when college prospects across the country ink their respective National Letter of Intent. He will announce his decision that night. He’s made it ...

My, how we get the willies at the specter of government overstepping its bounds and intruding into our concept of private life. On the same day this week, we learned of both a U.S. Supreme Court ruling limiting the use of GPS monitoring by police and t...

You know you’re getting old when the actors and athletes you grew up watching start dying off. Recently, we learned that Gary Carter, the catcher for the Expos and Mets, has brain cancer, and things don’t look good. (Here’s a nice SI piece about him.) And today I learned that ...

Here is a personality quiz from November 3, 1941. This was a canned feature page probably generated for the then Telegram-Tribune by the features service, NEA. Instructions: • Write down the letter describing the ink blot. You can answer more than one letter. • Total the numbers of each letter ...

Comedy legend Joan Rivers performs in San Luis Obispo on Saturday One of the most fascinating moments in the 2010 documentary “Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work” comes when the veteran comic cracks a joke about Helen Keller. “That’s not very funny,” an unseen man pipes up from the audience. ...

When you think about rock and roll, the image of a cow doesn’t normally come to mind. But a cow-inspired guitar designed by Rubes cartoonist Leigh Rubin is guaranteed to shake your udders. Rubin, the syndicated cartoonist who lives in Nipomo, is sort of partial to cows. After all, many of ...

According to IMDB it is the second most popular movie filmed in Los Osos.  As usual the curse of San Luis Obispo County was on this movie. It is my contention that movies filmed in the region end up being mediocre though “Sideways” would be my one exception. The top ...

Remember how we were supposed to feel sorry for people in the dying music business? Well, as Cee Lo Green might say, forget* that. Because what they said was that the music business had been crippled, first by file sharing, then by declining album sales, then by Internet sites like YouTube and ...

Hollywood nostalgia prevails with Best Picture nods For two films set during cinema’s golden age, silence is golden. “The Artist” and “Hugo” both earned big accolades this morning as the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced its nominations for the 84th annual Academy Awards. “Hugo” netted 11 Oscar ...