Category Archives: Moochin’ the News

Waiting 17 Hours for a Shelter Bed

Thanks to the We Are Visible Facebook page I was alerted to the article titled Phone-in system proposed to reduce lines at homeless shelters where San Francisco’s Mayor Ed Lee and the Board of Supervisors discuss a new way to … Continue reading





Kent Reporter Shows Lack of Respect Towards Their Homeless

Last night I was sitting in my car during my security job shift in southern California. While I passed the time looking up business leads and responding to emails, tweets and comments on Facebook via my cell phone, I found … Continue reading





Look How Victoria, BC Canada is Showcasing Homeless

What is your immediate reaction to this image on the left? Mine was shock, but I think that is the point. What you’re looking at is a piece of art, sculpted of ice and water soluble pigment, created by Tyler Hodgins, … Continue reading





I Support #OccupyWallStreet And I’m Not a Hippy

“I don’t have it easy, but I make it my responsibility, to express positivity, for myself and everybody.” – Mooch You know how I do, I write what’s real and honest in a minimalist and easy-to-understand fashion, a little bit … Continue reading





Occupy Wall Street and Anonymous

Over 700 hundred peaceful protesters in New York arrested. Reports of Police brutality. People being caught in large nets and pepper sprayed. An NYPD Officer leads the unit, with a prior record of false arrests and numerous civil rights violations, … Continue reading





Fundraiser for Kelly Thomas – Sept 17th

I hope you’ve been following the story of Kelly Thomas as closely as I have. Kelly is the homeless schizophrenic man who was beaten to death in public by 6 Fullerton uniformed police officers on July 5th, 2011.





VIDEO: Witnessess Describe Fullerton, CA Homeless Beating

I had to post about this story. I have been following the beating of Kelly Thomas, a homeless schizophrenic who was literally beaten and tasered to death by 6 uniformed Fullerton police officers, since I first heard about it on … Continue reading





Gay Teens Forced Into Homelessness

The current hot topic in the gay community seems to be about Tracy Morgan’s “joke” about how he’d stab his son if he were gay. This story is going down many different paths, branching out into boycotts and hateful comments … Continue reading





Music Fans: Good News w/ Google Music & Bad News w/ LimeWire

This week brought big news on both the positive and negative side of publicly shared music via the internet by two giants in their own respects; Google & LimeWire. Shall we start with the good or the bad? I always … Continue reading





Osama Bin Laden Dead – So Says Media

I’m usually not one to comment on political matters, and heck yes this is a political matter, but I couldn’t resist blogging about your boy Osama Bin Laden, the biggest boogie man of all – so says the media.





Mooch on Radio Advocating Homelessness

I was fortunate to advocate homelessness live on radio on the Conway & Steckler Show on March 25th @ 9:30pm. You may listen to the uninterrupted audio via the link below by scrolling down and clicking on PLAY or DOWNLOAD … Continue reading