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To all the parents who have braved the cold, cruel world of making your child’s lunch, I salute you. The truth is, we live in a world where it is no longer tolerable to slap a piece of mystery meat between two slices of white bread, stuff it into a brown paper bag, humiliate your child by putting his name and grade on it and then toss it into the bottom of a backpack where it will grow mutant bacteria and be stepped on by 29 other children before it is finally eaten at recess.

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A friend was telling me the other day how she hated salads as a

This is the second suit over the controversial half-cent sales

We've all been told things since we were kids. You know, things like "don't walk with the pointed end of scissors sticking out," or "don't go out side barefoot because you'll step on glass." And so it is that we come to some gardening adages.

While leaving the Camino Arroyo shopping center recently, I saw a woman panhandling at the entrance/exit between Kohl's and Panera. My concern was that she had a large dog with her. What I don't understand is, California state Penal Code Section 597. 1 states: "Every owner, driver, or keeper of any animal who permits the animal to be in any building, enclosure, lane, street, square, or lot of any city, county, city and county, or judicial district without proper care and attention is guilty of a misdemeanor." The statute also creates "a duty in peace officers, humane society officers, and animal control officers to cause the animal to be killed or rehabilitated and placed in a suitable home on information that the animal is stray or abandoned." Why aren't these dogs being taken away from owners so poor they cannot properly take care of themselves with daily food, water and shelter? Shouldn't the police, city employees, or animal control take the animal for the animal’s sake and try to find it a home?

If Leonardo da Vinci really lived by a "code" as Dan Brown's best-seller suggests, I think it would have been this: seek the science in art and the art in science. With that philosophy, old Leo would feel right at home in Gavilan Community College's digital media studio.

Parents, let’s be honest with ourselves for a second.