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Ps in the 43rd
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN Past events perforce drive us to review the outcome in the 43rd State Assembly District of the California Primary election held June 7. This is the district in which...
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Erdoğan’s Kissing Buns
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN Proving once again how shrewd and shameless he is, Turkey’s Sultan-in-waiting president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has realized he’s in over his head and is rapidly...
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Irritants XVIII
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN It’s been almost three years since I’ve written one of these whine-fests, though this time, the vexations are a bit more serious than mere peeves. Caucasus. Not only...
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A Joke, a Plot, a Blot
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN If I were a much better humorist/comedian/caricaturist, I think I would have created all kinds of jokes about the latest coup in Turkey. Most would center on how...
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Conscience Asks…
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN Yesterday, I heard a Martin Luther King, Jr. quote that well describes where I and many others find myself regarding the last two weeks’ events in that...
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The Trench, the Capitol, the Street, the Ether
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN The last three weeks’ events in the Republic of Armenia, occupied Western Armenia, and points further west in Asia Minor led me to the realization that one way to...
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Internal Irony
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN At a recent meeting where the structure of an (Armenian) organization was under discussion, what struck me as a strange comment was made. “Dictatorship...
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Yerevan, Rojava, Drones
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN The long-awaited Invasion of Syria by Turkey has commenced. What has Turkey to gain? 1. It stops Kurdish advances westward; 2. It regains some credibility with the...
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Election Shenanigans?
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN After Labor Day, things get intense in the quadrennial U.S. presidential election that culminates on November 8. The unprecedented levels of dissatisfaction with the...
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The Law and the Line
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN Laws are made to regulate interactions between and among people and governments. Laws are made to codify systems of behavior that are beneficial. Laws are made to...
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Busy Weekend… + Monday
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN It’s always easy to tell when September rolls around in the greater Los Angeles Armenian community. How? A massive pileup of events ends up being available for people...
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Celebration, Civic Duty, Common Sense
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN I recently heard a story from a friend about difficulties stemming from jury duty – something I think is incredibly important. I find it repugnant that so many...
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Never Give an Idiot a Rule
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN The last few weeks have reinforced my conviction that the above adage is very apt. The most recent episode happened when my girlfriend and I went to give blood a few...
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The Props: Crime & Punishment
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN It’s time for the biennial bonanza of ballot measures. This year, the State of California has 17 of them for citizens to consider. Some are just changes in the law,...
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The Props-Money
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN This is the second piece discussing, in installments, the 17 propositions on California’s ballot. The ones related to taxes and fees are covered below. The...
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What a Mess!
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN Both the Armenian “world” and the world as a whole seem to be in free fall. Perhaps we’re just in a time of transition to a new status quo which could be better or...
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Good Policy
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN This is my third and final piece covering the 17 ballot measures California’s voters will have to decide on when they cast their ballots in the November 8 election....
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The Props – Local
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN It’s almost over. All I have left to cover are some local propositions. Everything else has been beaten to death. Make sure you vote. In a matter days, even hours,...
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Lav, Pav, Tsav
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN It was a tough choice – write about Turkey’s latest mess with its ludicrous arrests of HDP parliamentarians or the U.S. election. Erdoğan’s shenanigans won for two...
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Nationalism: Misunderstood and Misrepresented
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN Ever since the carnage of World War II, there has been understandable aversion towards, even fear of, nationalism in Europe. Simultaneously, in the Western...
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