Bookworm on Feb 01 2013 | Filed under: Open Threads
Tweet I stopped going through my inbox when I got it down to 100 unread emails. It’s now scooted its way back up to 170 unread emails. So, I’m going to continue clearing the inbox and posting those things that are not only interesting but still relevant. Here’s a matched set for you. Back in [...]
Bookworm on Jan 27 2013 | Filed under: California
Tweet The San Francisco Chronicle has an article that both praises Governor Jerry Brown’s “balanced” budget and notes that California is in desperate financial shape. Clearly, the Chron is lowering expectations in case Brown’s “balanced” budget doesn’t do what it promised. The Chron is wise to keep its readers from getting too excited. I heard [...]
Bookworm on Nov 26 2012 | Filed under: Economics
Tweet Al Gore got a lot of mileage out of likening the slow accretion of anthropogenic climate change to a frog in cold water that was gradually being heated to boiling point. He contended that, just as the frogs were lulled by the gradual heat to be the point at which they’d fail to react [...]
Bookworm on Nov 20 2012 | Filed under: California, Islam, Muslim violence
Tweet The headline in the San Francisco Chronicle was simple: “FBI: 4 Calif. men charged in alleged terror plot.” California men, huh? Did they have names like Big Kahuna and look like this? “Yo, dude, I’m like going to, you know, like, attack the man. It’ll be, like, totally tubular.” No? Well maybe these California [...]
Bookworm on Nov 14 2012 | Filed under: Crime and punishment, Media matters
Tweet For decades now, the Left has been excusing crime with the old “root causes” argument: criminals are made, not born, and they’re made by a confluence of poverty, racism, peer pressure, etc. Because white Leftists feel guilty about this, they’ve tended to give ghetto-based criminals a pass. It’s not their fault they’re criminals; it’s [...]
Bookworm on Oct 30 2012 | Filed under: California, Congress
Tweet It’s time for Dianne Feinstein to go. Please vote for Elizabeth Emken:
Bookworm on Oct 25 2012 | Filed under: California, Congress
Tweet (You can read more about Emken here, or at her own website.) As usual, Dianne Feinstein is nowhere to be seen when there is hard work to be done, so Elizabeth Emken went ahead and had the debate without her: The fact that DiFi is a no-show has nothing to do with age. My [...]
Bookworm on Oct 24 2012 | Filed under: California, Elections
Tweet A few months ago, I though Elizabeth Emken’s chance of unseating Dianne Feinstein in the Senate was about equal to the Giant’s chance of winning the World Series. I was not optimistic. Today, I believe that both are possible and, indeed, probable. I’ll leave the baseball talk to others, and I’ll focus on Elizabeth [...]
Bookworm on Oct 19 2012 | Filed under: California
Tweet Laer, author of the fabulous Crazifornia: Tales from the Tarnished State – How California is Destroying Itself and Why it Matters to America, has posted a California voter’s guide at the website’s a companion to his book. Unlike all other voter guides, it’s not only informative (and, indeed, it’s more detailed than most voter’s [...]
Bookworm on Oct 15 2012 | Filed under: California
Tweet My computer is in its death throes, so I have a new one on order. I just get the confirmation from Dell, and it contained this interesting little notice: For shipments to California, a state environmental fee up to $10 per item will be added to invoices for all orders containing displays greater than [...]
Bookworm on Sep 30 2012 | Filed under: Blogs and Blogging, Books, California
Tweet Real Clear Politics, Sunday, September 30, 2012: I’m excited not only for myself, but for Laer Pearce, whose book, Crazifornia: Tales from the Tarnished State – How California is Destroying Itself and Why it Matters to America, is the subject of the post that RCP picked up. It’s a great book, and as many [...]
Bookworm on Sep 27 2012 | Filed under: California
Tweet I galloped through Laer Pearce’s Crazifornia: Tales from the Tarnished State – How California is Destroying Itself and Why it Matters to America, which is a great book. My review is at PJ Lifestyle: Reading my friend Laer Pearce’s book Crazifornia: Tales from the Tarnished State – How California is Destroying Itself and Why [...]
Bookworm on Sep 26 2012 | Filed under: California
Tweet The movie said “if you build it, they will come it.” More and more California businesses say, “if you tax it, we will go“: Comcast announced Tuesday that it would shutter three Northern California call centers and consolidate them into other western U.S. centers in a few months, a move that will affect as [...]
Bookworm on Sep 19 2012 | Filed under: Elections, Immigration
Tweet No comment from me. You all know what I’m thinking: Starting Wednesday, Californians can register to vote online, a change implemented just in time for the November presidential election. Made possible by a 2011 bill authored by Sen. Leland Yee, D-San Francisco, the online system will allow people whose signature is already on file with [...]
Bookworm on Sep 13 2012 | Filed under: Blogfriends, Books, California
Tweet Those of you who were lucky enough to have started using the internet a few years ago probably remember Laer Pearce, who blogged at Cheat-Seeking Missiles. Laer was one of my first blog friends, meaning that we corresponded by email and, eventually, we met. He is precisely what you’d imagine him to be from [...]
Bookworm on Aug 14 2012 | Filed under: California
Tweet One of my oldest blog friends, Laer Pearce, who used to blog at Cheat-Seeking Missiles before he turned his attention to writing a book, is now on the verge of publishing his book about the insanity that is California. The book, unsurprisingly, is called “Crazifornia.” While you’re waiting, please consider going over to the [...]
Bookworm on May 16 2012 | Filed under: California
Tweet Here in California, faced with a devastating fiscal crisis, Gov. Brown is talking about cuts. If I were in charge, I’d cut out whole departments and agencies because they’re inefficient, redundant, unnecessary, or entirely inappropriate uses of taxpayer funds. Or within departments, I’d simply do a “rip off the band-aid” approach and fire some [...]
Bookworm on May 01 2012 | Filed under: Elections
Tweet ‘Tis the season for local campaign literature. I usually toss these things in the circular file, unread. As a minority conservative in a massively Democrat/Progressive county, my votes are invariably wasted anyway. With Open Primaries, though, I’m starting to pay attention to this unsolicited reading material. So far, I’ve heard from Michael Allen, Jared [...]
Bookworm on Apr 23 2012 | Filed under: California, Elections
Tweet This election will be the first election since California voters decided, in 2010, to turn ours into an Open Primary state. The practical effect of having done so is that the November election, rather than being head-to-head combat between the two parties, will be a run-off between the winners from the June election. The [...]
Bookworm on Apr 19 2012 | Filed under: TV
Tweet Everything flows from the top. I’m not saying that Obama encouraged his advance Security Service team to have riotous orgies, but I’m also not surprised that a corrupt administration ends up having corrupt employees. A leader’s ethos will always trickle down. Speaking of which, I see a continuum between Michelle Obama sully the White [...]
Bookworm on Mar 31 2012 | Filed under: California, Education
Tweet California used to have the finest public education system in America. It wasn’t lack of funding that killed it; it was Leftist corruption and insanity. Don’t believe me? Read these two articles. From Bruce Kesler: Important Report On The Sinkhole That Is Higher Education From Donald Douglas: California State Colleges and Universities May Screen [...]
Bookworm on Mar 13 2012 | Filed under: African-Americans, California, Race
Tweet Jerry Brown has nominated Teveia Barnes to be the new commissioner for California’s Department of Financial Institutions. This means that she is the ultimate regulatory authority for more than 300 California-chartered banks and other financial institutions. Barnes has an impressive resume, including a lengthy stint as associate general counsel and senior vice president at [...]
Danny Lemieux on Mar 03 2012 | Filed under: America, Conservative ideology, Democrats, Europe, Liberal Fascism, Self-reliance
Tweet This article that just appeared in Bloomberg.com, regarding Stockton-writ-California-writ-USA-writ-large’s pending bankruptcy, is just so absolutely jaw-dropping crazy…uh, no, wait….it isn’t really so crazy after all. Never mind. If Stockton Is Broke, Why Isn’t San Diego?: Steven Greenhut http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-03-02/if-stockton-is-broke-then-why-isn-t-san-diego-steven-greenhut.html Here’s the money take-away: referencing the fact that, for the past 20 years, city employees could [...]
Bookworm on Feb 28 2012 | Filed under: Economics, Taxes
Tweet The SF Comical sounds surprised by the fact that the Facebook IPO did not end California’s financial problems. I think someone needs to watch Bill Whittle’s video, made roughly a year ago, but clearly pertinent today:
Bookworm on Dec 13 2011 | Filed under: Presidential elections
Tweet A friend sent me a link to a post at Whatever, a blog that John Scalzi runs. Scalzi, who describes himself as a “pinko commie socialist,” is interested — truly, not snarkily, interested — in the views Republicans/conservatives/libertarians currently hold when looking at the Republican primary field. Having the luxury of my own blog, [...]
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